Relationships Matter

This book may save marriages that would ordinarily end in divorce and will create happier, healthier loves for couples who previously felt dstined to live together in misery. This book is unique in several ways: * It gives specific healing techniques for overcoming the emotional gap subsequent to ADD. * Dr. Amen shares the existence of ADD within his own experience, bringing both a professional and personal knowledge of the disorder. * It focuses on the repercussions of those who love someone with ADD. * It provides the help you need to keep your family together in a healthy way, which encourages growth rather than turmoil.

User Reviews about ADD in Intimate Relationships: A Comprehensive Guide for Couples

This book is amazing! My husband and I have had serious issues and have even talked about divorce. I could never understand why it was so hard for us to get along until I realized he is ADD. I have learned so much about ADHD/ADD with the book "Healing ADD" by the same author Dr. Amen and "ADD in Intimate Relationships". I highly recommend both books!!! Im blown away with how intense the disorder is and how common it is. BUY IT, YOU WONT REGRET IT :-) -- Awesome!!

I read this book years ago, in its original printing, and find it as helpful today as I did then.

Amen acknowledges--and offers strategies for addressing--"intimacy" issues that few other clinicians know to even ask about! Especially if they thinkt ADHD is just about having trouble with paperwork at the office or being "creative." :-0

So, granted, this is not a foundational book on ADHD, but it's the one you read when you want more in-depth help on intimacy issues (meaning...SEX). Keep in mind, though: New medications are introduced every year, so look to other sources to update the specific advice about certain medications.

In learning about ADHD, I finally decided that reading about 3-5 good books on the subject was a much better strategy than trying to find a doc or therapist who would explain it all for my husband and I. We'd wasted enough years consulting "experts" and all it did was make things worse. And sometimes you have to invest months (and lots of co-pays) before you realize that the clinician really doesn't "get" ADHD.

So, my advice is earmark about $150, make the relevant reading choices, and read read read.

Then join an online support group for partners of adults with ADHD.

Gina Pera -- Dr. Amen "GETS" Adult ADHD

This book was good for both of us. It reminded me (the ADDer) some of the things I do are a result of the disease, not because I am ignorant or thoughtless. And it gave my husband a better idea of the same~ We have been in counseling for a year now, this book was the best way to finish our work and deal with/accept my ADD -- Great help!

Being the wife of an adult ADD man, I searched for a book giving me some help in dealing with the issues that come up in marriage due to ADD. I specifically wanted help for me as the spouse. This book seemed to be the one I have looked for and it did begin that way. However, by the middle of the book it became just another of the many books geared toward the ADD adult and very little was geared toward the frustrations of the spouse. To summarize, it would be great for the ADD person, but of little help to the sppuse. -- More of a guide for the ADD person than the Couple