Helping Your Husband with ADHD

Supportive Solutions for Adult ADD/ADHD

By: George Sachs PsyD

Narrated by: Dwight Equitz

Do you ever feel like your husband is an overgrown child? Or a really big teenager that needs to be reminded of everything or he'll forget? He's restless. He's jumpy. He's impatient, impulsive, and chronically late! He simply refuses to get organized and puts off everything - and I mean everything - until the last minute.

Is this the guy you married? What the heck happened to him? Was he always this way? Or is it all in your head? More importantly, is there anything you can do to fix it, or do you have to suffer with his atrocious habits for the rest of your life?

It's difficult enough managing your career, the house, and the kids. Who has time to micromanage their husband's life? If you are the wife of a man with ADD/ADHD this may have struck a painful chord, and for good reason. Beyond the daily difficulties of being on the receiving end of ADD/ADHD, your plight is often ignored by therapists and other professionals. Yes, many books and articles have been written describing the challenges of people with ADD/ADHD, but few focus on those who suffer the most from this condition - namely, their partners. This book is an attempt to do just that: to offer solid education and practical tips to help you deal with the daily frustrations of living with someone who has ADD/ADHD.

This book is a helpful guide for women who think their husbands might have ADD/ADHD. Or for women whose husbands have already been diagnosed. George Sachs, PsyD, and Timothy Norman, LCSW, offer advice for wives to help their husbands live a successful life with adult ADD/ADHD. Learn ways to support his growth without enabling him or exhausting yourself.

Dr. Sachs is a licensed child and adult psychologist, specializing in the treatment of ADD/ADHD in children, teens, and adults. He is founder of the Sachs Center on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, serving individuals and families looking for answers to ADD/ADHD.

©2015 George Sachs (P)2016 George Sachs

Introductory. Should edit to not repeat "ADD/ADHD"

The repetition of "ADD/ADHD" was trying. Ok info and suggestions but not new to me.

Wife with Bipolar, Hubby with ADHD

I really liked this book. I realized how many similarities my hubby and I have with our diagnoses. I shared what I learned here and we plan to implement some new things into our lives and communication, which likely help us both! I absolutely feel like I get him more and it helped me not feel so alone or terrible for my feelings. It was a good read!

Validation

I learned quite a bit from this book but also realized through the testimony of other women that I’m not alone. How I’ve been feeling doesn’t make me a jerk, it just makes me a human being. That’s priceless.

Functional advice

This was a great read with great tools for the spouse of a husband with ADHD. I like the fact that several different ideas were suggested to get me on the right track to functioning with my husband. It also helped me to better u sweat and why lists don’t work and to keep the todo list short!

A very informative read

I read a few reviews that said the gist of this book is basically that you have to accept the issue with no solutions offered which made me hesitant to “read”. However there are multiple chapters that deal with action items. Therapy, medication, diet changes, structuring to do lists, how to present information in less overwhelming ways, etc are all discussed. It’s a great read that even includes recommendations of additional books and resources to assist in tempering the effects of adult ADHD.