Struggling with ADHD in your marriage? Learn about common ADHD relationship dynamics like emotional reactivity, lack of follow-through, and partner loneliness. Discover how couples can move from conflict to connection with greater understanding, structure, and mutual support. Grounded in expert insights and research, this blog offers practical hope for partners navigating ADHD together.

An ADHD brain is like an on/off switch. Instead of fine-tuning levels, it tends to be all or nothing—hyperfocused or completely distracted, overwhelmed by emotions or detached, full of energy or exhausted. This inability to modulate different mental functions at the right levels for the situation is what makes ADHD a disorder of regulation.