Inside the Adult ADHD Mind
- Difficulty seeing time and feeling the future
- Avoidance of difficult or unpleasant tasks
- Common mindset traps and rationalizations
- Psychological defensiveness after a lifetime of being corrected
ADHD’s Impact on Relationships and Sex
- The over-functioner meets the under-functioner
- Micromanagement versus independence
- Chronic polarizing pattern of push and pull
- Sexuality fades and the couple’s connection weakens
What the Happiest Couples are Doing Right –
- Strategies to:
- Apply a deeper understanding of ADHD to manage life more resiliently (for both partners)
- Create more sustainable expectations to de-escalate the unwinnable tug of war between distraction and anxiety
- Explore priorities to decide what to change and what to accept in the relationship
- Negotiate differences respectfully and productively
- Identify and overcome barriers to a better sex life


