The ADHD Effect on Marriage

An invaluable resource for couples in which one of the partners suffers from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), this authoritative book guides troubled marriages towards an understanding and appreciation for the struggles and triumphs of a relationship affected by it, and to look at the disorder in a more positive and less disruptive way. Going beyond traditional marriage counseling, this discussion offers advice from the author's personal experience and years of research and identifies patterns of behavior that can hurt marriages--such as nagging, intimacy problems, sudden anger, and memory issues--through the use of vignettes and descriptions of actual couples and their ADHD struggles and solutions. This resource encourages both spouses to become active partners in improving their relationship and healing the fissures that ADHD can cause.

Melissa Orlov is a marriage consultant and one of the top experts on how ADHD affects relationships. She has been writing and speaking about the topic since 2007, researching it since 2005. She teaches couples, therapists, and counselors about how ADHD impacts relationships, blogs for Psychology Today, and wrote the Your Relationships column for ADDitude Magazine from 2008 to 2014. She also consults privately with couples who wish to improve their ADHD-impacted relationships and teaches a very popular couples seminar (by phone) about living well in an ADHD-impacted relationship. She is the author of The ADHD Effect on Marriage, which was awarded Best Psychological Book of 2010 by ForeWord Reviews. It has been translated into Dutch, Chinese and Japanese. Her latest book, The Couple's Guide to Thriving with ADHD, coauthored with Nancie Kohlenberger, won three book awards. Melissa has been interviewed frequently on the topic of ADHD and marriage by organizations as diverse as the New York Times, CNN, and the American Psychological Association's Monitor on Psychology. Before changing careers in order to pursue her passion for helping couples live better with ADHD, Melissa was a marketing, communications, and research professional. A graduate of Harvard College cum laude, and Phillips Exeter Academy, her hobbies include road biking, singing, and playing cello. Ms. Orlov and her husband of twenty-six-plus years live outside Boston.