People with ADHD often struggle to fully vent emotions to partners, which blocks emotional regulation. Their partners end up parenting them, constantly reminding them about showering, feeding kids, or getting to work. Executive-function deficits create a frustration cycle both partners feel.
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Do you take a moment to figure those out or just get frustrated with your partner? Yeah. What are some common emotional regulation issues that your clients bring to you? Not being able to fully vent to their partners. That is a big thing because part of emotional regulation is being able to share what you're emotionally dysregulated about. And often for our verbal processor and That can be, especially if you have a neurotypical partner, they already feel like they're your parent a lot of times. A lot of my clients say that my wife has said, my husband has said, and it's both sides, that they feel like they're parenting me all the time because they have to remind me to take a shower. They have to remind me to feed the kids. They have to remind me that I have to go to work today. Mm-hmm. All of these things that when you're married to a neurotypical, they really are, there are executive function