A review by htedesco
The ADHD Effect on Marriage: Understand and Rebuild Your Relationship in Six Steps by Melissa Orlov

medium-paced

1.25

Honestly, this should have been a DNF for me, but I kept waiting for it to get better? Spoiler, it doesn’t. If possible, it gets worse. I only gave it the one star because I saw some other reviews where people found this book helpful so that’s cool I guess. This book was filled with couples in abusive relationships and somehow that was blamed on ADHD. It was also sexist, heteronormative, reductive and patriarchal. There’s almost no female ADHD representation, all the couples are male and female, and most of them have children as well. It feels like the author (who is married to a man with ADHD, not an expert on ADHD) figured out some things that work in her relationship and wrote a book.