Here’s a top ten list I have put together of things to do and NOT do with your ADHD partner:
Do not:
- Do not play parent (motherly or fatherly)
- Do not take on the sole responsibility of trying to correct his or her behavior
- Do not blame every aspect of the relationship which might be damaged on his or her ADHD
- Do not make statements which are demeaning with the hope that it will spark his or her attention that they must make corrective efforts.
- Do not say things like: “This is the right way to do this or that.” Or “That’s not the way things should be done.”
- Do not take his or her hyper focusing on projects or people, places or things personally. Hyper focusing is not about your relationship directly or indirectly, it’s a difficult to control or much less, predict, trait of ADHD.
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