The ADHD Effect on Marriage, Melissa Orlov
The ADHD Effect on Marriage, Melissa Orlov
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The ADHD Effect on Marriage
Understand and Rebuild Your Relationship in Six Steps

Author: Melissa Orlov

Narrator: Laura Jennings

Unabridged: 8 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/14/2017

Synopsis

An invaluable resource for couples in which one of the partners suffers from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), this authoritative book guides troubled marriages towards an understanding and appreciation for the struggles and triumphs of a relationship affected by it, and to look at the disorder in a more positive and less disruptive way. Going beyond traditional marriage counseling, this discussion offers advice from the author's personal experience and years of research and identifies patterns of behavior that can hurt marriages—such as nagging, intimacy problems, sudden anger, and memory issues—through the use of vignettes and descriptions of actual couples and their ADHD struggles and solutions. This resource encourages both spouses to become active partners in improving their relationship and healing the fissures that ADHD can cause.

About Melissa Orlov

Melissa Orlov is a marriage consultant and one of the top experts on how ADHD affects relationships. She has been writing and speaking about the topic since 2007, researching it since 2005. She teaches couples, therapists, and counselors about how ADHD impacts relationships, blogs for Psychology Today, and wrote the "Your Relationships" column for ADDitude Magazine from 2008 to 2014. She also consults privately with couples who wish to improve their ADHD-impacted relationships and teaches a very popular couples seminar (by phone) about living well in an ADHD-impacted relationship.

She is the author of The ADHD Effect on Marriage, which was awarded "Best Psychological Book of 2010" by ForeWord Reviews. It has been translated into Dutch, Chinese and Japanese. Her latest book, The Couple's Guide to Thriving with ADHD, coauthored with Nancie Kohlenberger, won three book awards.

Melissa has been interviewed frequently on the topic of ADHD and marriage by organizations as diverse as the New York Times, CNN, and the American Psychological Association's Monitor on Psychology.

Before changing careers in order to pursue her passion for helping couples live better with ADHD, Melissa was a marketing, communications, and research professional. A graduate of Harvard College cum laude, and Phillips Exeter Academy, her hobbies include road biking, singing, and playing cello. Ms. Orlov and her husband of twenty-six-plus years live outside Boston.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Donloree on September 09, 2012

This is the first book I have read on the subject of ADHD where the partner is not the coach, mentor, or helper for the person with ADHD. Melissa clears up so many grey areas for people who are married to someone with ADHD. Halfway through the book I found myself crying because I realized I wasn't a......more

Goodreads review by Kirsten on July 21, 2019

Meh. There's some stuff here that's helpful, but it's a very heteronormative book, and most of the book assumes that the ADHD partner is male and the non-ADHD partner is female. It also doesn't say much about relationships where both partners have ADHD.......more

Goodreads review by Amy on December 06, 2019

The writing style is excessively chirpy and I really have a hard time believing anything the author says. She seems so anxious to convince me how great her marriage is now. I feel like if I google her I'l find that she's divorced. Anyway, the advice is useless to me because both my husband and I hav......more

Goodreads review by Susannah on November 14, 2016

I felt like this book was more aimed at traditional type marriages struggling where the man is the one with the ADHD and the woman has to take care of everything. I think it might be helpful for those types of situations but I was looking for more of an advice guide when the woman has ADHD and also......more

Goodreads review by Sarah on November 02, 2021

Since recieving an ADHD diagnosis this has been the most unhelpful resource i have come across. The perspective of this book is written by a female spouse who does not have ADHD with a male spouse who does. I couldn't relate to the issues in the marriage that the author went into. Most of the issues......more

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