Hey, everybody. Welcome. And thank you for listening to this episode of Marriage Therapy Radio.

My name is Zach Brittle. I'm here with Laura Heck. We are here today with Melissa Orlov.

Melissa literally wrote the book on ADHD and marriage. This is a topic that's been coming into my office more and more and more.

This conversation is amazing in the sense that Melissa offers new and essential insights

into how to manage this diagnosis within the context of a relationship.

I am really glad to have found her.

I think you will be too if this is part of your life at all.

I'll encourage you to check out her book. I'll encourage you to check out her book.

I'll encourage you to check out her website, which has workshops.

But for now, this is a very cool conversation.

Stick around.

I don't know if this is real or if this is imagined, but I feel like every third inquiry

I get into my practice involves some kind of neurodiversity question around

whether ADHD or whatever it is that may be impacting the relationship. I'm here in Seattle

as some reason I have a lot of nurses that are married to software designers. And so it's sort of

they have this high, you know, empathy, bedside manner sort of thing.

And then they have this other kind of hyper-focused.

I'm really good at this one thing kind of thing.

But what I'm really excited about is just like literally I just wanted you to tell me everything there is I'm supposed to know about ADHD and marriage because I'm under-equipped.

Can you just download all of your years of knowledge?

It's the elevator speech. Yeah. yeah well there's a um let's just get going well you know you that kind of a startup or whatever

you want you know i see a lot of folks that might have ADHD is i our neurodiverse it's a great start. Well, okay, can I just ask, like,

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