Two Options

ADHD & Marriage News - January 10, 2024

Quote of the Week

Situation: family discussion, where parents are not on the same page about what should happen next. Kids are 15 and 17. Dad offers one approach. Mom another.

“You are lucky that you have 2 options to consider and to learn from.”

- Mom who didn’t wish to seem to condone a next step that didn’t fit her values but also didn’t want to put her husband’s idea down

Some families can manage to show a united front to their kids, no matter what. But when you are in a neurodivergent relationship, you may each come up with solutions to the latest family crisis that simply don’t resonate with the other partner. It might be because you hold different values, or it might simply be that you think differently and have different approaches.

For some couples, this results in arguing in front of the kids, or one partner dismissing the other’s approach as not valid.

But there is another way, and that is to openly and non-judgmentally share both partner’s approaches. I love how this mom handled this situation! She held to her values, respected her partner’s approach, and helped her teens by recognizing that they need to be given the space to think for themselves.

Could this approach help your family?

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