CHADD Support Groups for ADHD Partners!

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Maybe you hear this at your house: "What kind of support do they have for the person who struggles to live with an ADHD person, or perhaps a whole house full of them?"

Well, CHADD does understand. Sometimes the one without ADHD seems to be spending all of their days chasing around with doctors appointments for the kids, trying to convince the ADHD partner that they are not just a "charming Tom Sawyer" type and once again fetching the inexorably lost keys. At the same time, it seems like nobody else is concerned about the state of near chaos upon which the entire household teeters.

Then there is the partnering level. As if being in a relationship were not complicated enough, a relationship with an ADHD partner can create myriad new misunderstandings and disappointed expectations. Did my partner really forget how important that was to me? Do they purposely drop the ball, knowing I will catch it?

An ADHD partner can also offer unique gifts. You may not remember them right this minute, but they are there, really! Think of the spontaneity, humor, passion and enthusiasm! You may recognize that the pwADHD (person with ADHD) is not doing those things just to aggravate you. It only seems that way! A good resource for recalling how you got interested in this relationship in the first place is ADD and Romance: Finding Fulfillment in Love, Sex, & Relationships by Jonathan Scott Halverstadt, available through our own online bookstore at www.chaddnorcal.org/Books/Recs.htm.

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