Communication Tips with ADHD

ADHD and Marriage: Choosing Your Responses Leads to Happiness

Submitted by MelissaOrlov on 08/21/2007.

Effectively communicating with your spouse often seems like hard work - pushing the proverbial rock up the hill.  Have you ever stopped to consider the role that your everyday responses play in how smooth - or rocky - that communication is?  

The Importance of "Now and Not Now" in ADHD Marriages

Submitted by MelissaOrlov on 07/26/2007.

Dr. Hallowell often states in his speeches that people with ADHD have only two concepts of  time – “now” and “not now”.  How true that is!  If a project or idea is in front of a person with ADHD it gets done now…or, if not now, then perhaps never!  This trait has plusses and minuses in the ADHD marriage.

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