According to the Wall Street Journal, some 10 million American adults suffer from ADD/ADHD. Even worse, less than 25 percent of these individuals know they even have it (but their wives probably do!). Typically, the symptoms of ADD/ADHD first show themselves in childhood. However, as we mentioned, many, if not most, never receive a diagnosis or […]
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When it comes to ADD/ADHD, impatience may be the one symptom that frustrates husbands and wives equally, although perhaps for different reasons. The wife sees a husband who may not be able to sit still, rushes to interrupt, or moves from one thing to the next without coming up for air. The husband, though, is driven to this
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When my husband and I were first going out, he was like a dog with a bone. No pun intended. We had sex constantly. It was fun, because we were still new to each other and were still exploring each other’s bodies. But after the first six months, the curiosity and excited died away on
I was watching this movie the other day where a man intends to take his love interest out for a night on the town, and of course leaves the proverbial red dress on the bed for her to wear. I’ve always been cynical, and liked to think that I was beyond all the superficialities of
Relationships are challenging as it is, but when a partner has ADD, it can throw another sabotaging spanner in the works. Your husband may not know it yet, but his intimacy issues, volatile temper and inattentiveness towards your feelings could all be deeply connected to his ADD. Not that it makes things any easier on
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Now You’re Just Somebody That I Used to Know – ADD/ADHD and the Bedroom He swept you off your feet. Part Prince Charming, part super hero, the ADD/ADHD man you fell in love with seemed like a dream come true at first. It wasn’t just his intense interest in you and the relationship (now known
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Of all the symptoms exhibited by men with ADD/ADHD, their inability to deal with distractions may be the most frustrating for their wives. To be fair, it may not be the husband’s fault. In fact, a growing body of research shows that distractibility is linked to how the brain functions. Nevertheless, for the wives of
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As the old saying goes, “The best way to get nothing done is to try to do everything at once.” For non-ADD/ADHD adults, the phrase strikes a familiar, humorous chord that reminds us to rein things in when we find ourselves running off in all directions at once. However, for men with ADD/ADHD, this phrase
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