ADHD & Relationships: Melissa Orlov on ADHD, Dating & Divorce

Understanding your partner is one of the most important parts of having a healthy, fulfilling relationship. But without ADHD resources available, ADHD-impacted relationships are challenged every single day and the unfortunate reality is this often leads couples to separate or divorce.

 

Today’s episode is the continuation of our conversation with Melissa Orlov on how awareness and self-acceptance of ADHD can help save relationships and marriages. After establishing ADHDmarriage.com in 2007, Melissa has helped couples learn to thrive in ADHD-impacted relationships. Today, Melissa dives into hyperfocused courtship, looking at guilt and how the pressures of having ADHD can affect a couple and how defining and acknowledging ADHD symptoms can help guide the ADHD partner through rough patches. 

 

Tune in now to learn more about ADHD, dating, and divorce from Melissa Orlov!

Join the conversation by reaching Lindsay via [e-mail] or on social media at @lindsayguentzel now!

 

Highlights

• ADHD, marriage, and divorce

• What is hyperfocus courtship? 

• Pressures felt by women with ADHD

• ADHD women and the biological clock

• Adult ADHD, guilt, and shame 

• Dealing with ADHD in retirement 

• Same-sex couples and ADHD 

• How to create a healthy ADHD relationship?

 

About Melissa Orlov

 

Melissa Orlov is the founder of ADHDmarriage.com. She provides support groups, private couples counseling and consulting, professional training, and more. Recently, she launched couples' seminars via Zoom conducted twice a year. Resources about ADHD and ADHD-impacted relationships are also available on her blog. 

 

Melissa is also an award-winning author, having published books about ADHD-impacted relationships - The ADHD Effect on Marriage (2010) and The Couple’s Guide to Thriving with ADHD (2014). 

 

To connect with Melissa, check out the links below:

• Website | www.adhdmarriage.com/

• LinkedIn | www.linkedin.com/in/melissaorlov

• Facebook | www.facebook.com/ADHDMarriage/

• Twitter | @msorlov

 

Resources from Melissa Orlov:

• The Couple's Guide to Thriving with ADHD | 

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