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The Importance of Apologies in a Relationship with an ADHD Partner
Something will happen the ADHD partner makes does something doesn't complete a project or does something that isn't what everybody in the household was expecting./nA non ADHD partner at the, you know, they be there's a resentment and a frustration that grows with with a non ADHD partners who feel helpless in the face of the repetitive nature of ADHD symptoms you know they feel completely out of control./nAnd, and I think that's the thing that I've been talking about a lot of times, all this chaos is going on in their lives as well as their partner's lives by virtue of the fact that they are partners./nAnd yet the, the non ADHD partners are really have no control over whether that gets managed or not so there's a lot of something happens the partners is I'm sorry, they totally mean it. But the non ADHD partner becomes wary or cynical about that, you know, along the lines of I don't believe you I think it's just an excuse I've heard that so many times before I think it's just words. You know you're just trying to appease me and move on you don't want to actually discuss the issues./nThere's all sorts of accusations that can go out around apologies and repairs./nAnd the issues are complicated here right, and I'm just bringing this forward because it is about having good apologies but it is eventually also about creating more reliability for the ADHD partner which then has a direct impact on on the.