176: Is ADHD Affecting Your Relationship?

Relationship Advice

Colter Bloxom

Relationships, Mental Health, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

ADHD is a mental health condition that can negatively impact your relationship and often goes undiagnosed in adults. Distractability, poor listening and disorganization are just a few signs of adult ADHD. It's important to understand the mental condition and its affects on your relationship. Whether or not you or your partner has ADHD, you'll find many useful relationship tips in this episode. In this episode we discuss relationship advice topics that include: How to know if you or your partner has ADHD Treatments for ADHD The pitfalls of the parent-child dynamic in a relationship Finding common ground to solve the issues in your relationship Learning who your partner is and respecting that person And much more! Melissa Orlov is a marriage consultant who specializes in working with couples impacted by adult ADHD. She is the author of two award-winning books, The ADHD Effect on Marriage, and The Couple's Guide to Thriving with ADHD. Full show notes and episode links at: http://idopodcast.com/176 Sign up for our 14 Day Happy Couples Challenge here: 14 Day Happy Couples Challenge Join our 5 Day Couples Appreciation Challenge here: idopodcast.com/appreciation Do you want to hear more on this topic? Continue the conversation on our Facebook Group here: Love Tribe Sponsors Spark My Relationship Course: Get access to our special offer for I Do Podcast listeners only by visiting: SparkMyRelationship.com/Unlock Songfinch: Songfinch brings your stories, feelings and memories to life through one-of-a-kind songs from scratch. Using your unique stories along with your desired genre, vocalist gender and song moods, they curate the perfect professional songwriter to handcraft the most personal gift you can give. Visit Songfinch.com and enter the promo code IDO to get $20 off! If you love this episode (and our podcast!), would you mind giving us a review in iTunes? It would mean the world to us and we promise it only takes a minute. Many thanks in advance! - Chase & Sarah Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	And Take me to the place in the middle of the sun. Welcome to ID Podcast
0:29.7	ID Podcast. What's going on guys? Thank you so much for joining us. We hope you are having a
0:36.4	great December as we come into December here and you're not freezing your butt off wherever you are.
0:45.0	Hopefully not.
0:46.0	Although I know there was a couple snow days this past week.
0:50.0	Yeah, my great uncle lives in Vermont and just send me a picture of like, I think he called it, like winter wonderland, but it was white and gray, and I have to say I do not envy him, but I guess you dress for the occasion and it's all good.
1:06.0	But we are coming to you, I don't want to rub it in or anything, but from warm and sunny Costa Rica here and we are happy to have you listening.
1:16.0	We appreciate you guys listening, sharing the podcast with your friends and family.
1:21.0	We talked about our, what was it, like a few weeks ago, our November subscriber drive.
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1:28.0	That's what you called it. I named it on the fly.
1:30.0	But if all of you guys just tell one friend, family member, your spouse, your partner, have them
1:36.0	subscribe and listen.
1:37.7	We're going to make the world a better place, right?
1:39.9	Everyone's going to be able to have these tools to navigate the relationships in their lives a little bit better.
1:47.3	And today's episode is no different where we welcome and we have a new topic that we have never discussed and that is ADHD in the relationship so whether you yourself have it or your partner and even if neither of those apply to you you're
2:07.7	going to find a lot of value in conflict resolution and communication tools that we talk about today with Melissa Orlov and
2:17.6	Melissa is a marriage consultant who specializes in working with couples impacted by adult ADHD.
2:25.0	She is the author of two award-winning books,
2:27.8	the ADHD effect on marriage and the couples guide
2:31.4	to thriving with ADHD. And yeah, we dive into how to know if you have
2:37.4	ADHD and you know diagnosing it and then how to navigate that in your relationship.
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