PSP: 258 The Impact of Child Anxiety or OCD on Marriages
AT Parenting Survival | Raising Kids with OCD & Anxiety
Natasha Daniels: Child Therapist, Child Anxiety and OCD Expert, Parenting Coach and Parent
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🗓️ 19 April 2022
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
There are many things that can put a strain on marriages. Once the honeymoon is over it can be a struggle to agree on finances, household chores and parenting. When anxiety or OCD is in the mix it can make a hard situation even harder.
Couples can struggle with a variety of issues around their child’s anxiety or OCD including:
-Disagreeing on the seriousness of their child’s anxiety or OCD.
-Blaming each other or their parenting for the issue.
-Wanting to approach the issue differently.
-Resentful that they are doing more than their partner.
And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
Anxiety and OCD is draining enough. Couples don’t need to drain each other on top of it. In this week’s AT Parenting Survival Podcast I talk about the many issues couples might encounter while raising a child with anxiety or OCD, and how they can work through them.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the AT Parenting Survival Podcast, where you get help and guidance through |
| 0:08.1 | the chaos of parenting a child with anxiety or OCD. |
| 0:12.1 | This show is for educational purposes and is not intended to replace the guidance of |
| 0:16.5 | a qualified professional. |
| 0:18.2 | Here's your host, child therapist Natasha Daniels. |
| 0:23.0 | Well, hello there and welcome to the episode of the AT Parenting Survival Podcast. |
| 0:29.3 | I'm going to be talking about another topic that the AT Parenting community members voted |
| 0:34.6 | on and gave me an important topic to bring to you and so I'm sure you're going to find |
| 0:38.9 | this beneficial as well. |
| 0:41.2 | And that is the impact of your child's anxiety or OCD on your relationship. |
| 0:47.1 | When I said in the title, marriage is just because you have to have short titles, but |
| 0:52.0 | really I wanted to say any partner, any romantic relationship that you're in. |
| 0:56.3 | It's just hard to write that in a quick title. |
| 0:59.8 | And more often than not, our kids' anxiety or OCD is going to impact that relationship. |
| 1:06.2 | Regardless of whether it is a dating situation or it's a marriage or it's just a partnership. |
| 1:14.0 | Then we are approaching our kids' anxiety or OCD and we're trying to raise little people. |
| 1:19.0 | That's hard enough. |
| 1:20.0 | But when you add in anxiety or OCD, it becomes very tricky and it's very rare for me to |
| 1:26.7 | meet a couple that isn't struggling in some area around their child's anxiety or OCD. |
| 1:33.1 | So I'm going to go over the common issues that I saw in my therapy practice, what people |
| 1:38.2 | talk about in the AT Parenting community. |
| 1:40.9 | And then because I am very solution focused, I don't like to just sit here and complain |
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