Regretful Parents: “My ADHD Wife Isn't Fun Anymore” | Reddit Stories

⚠️ Content Warning: Discussions of parental resentment, mental health crises, and implied threats of violence.

In this episode, Erika and Kristen dive a viral Reddit post from an Australian father overwhelmed by parenting two ADHD children with an ADHD spouse. What starts as complaints about mess, noise, and burnout spirals into resentment, misogyny, and an alarming confession.As two hosts with ADHD, we unpack the realities of living with ADHD and why so many parents seem shocked by… having to parent??? Along the way, we discuss weaponized incompetence, emotional labor, mental health stigma, ADHD medication debates, and why therapy is not optional when resentment turns dangerous.

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Timestamps

00:00 – Welcome to the Regretful Parents series
00:17 – “Parenting with ADHD is pretty rough” (yeah… we noticed)
01:06 – ADHD, pregnancy, resentment & mood swings
02:20 – Corporate burnout, part-time work, full-time expectations
03:23 – Gentle parenting, authority, and medicating ADHD kids
04:19 – “If I’d known, I would’ve run the other way”
05:03 – Losing respect for a spouse & blaming medical misogyny
06:40 – “I don’t like my kids” (🚩🚩🚩)
07:36 – Messy houses, unrealistic expectations & parenting delusion
08:14 – “Why can’t they just be normal?”
09:11 – Health decline, resentment, and isolation
09:53 – The sentence that made everything terrifying
10:31 – Therapy is not optional
11:26 – Reddit comments that actually offer solutions
12:32 – ADHD discipline, structure & realistic expectations
14:20 – Autonomy, accountability & parenting resentment
15:24 – ADHD, ODD, and opting out of parenthood
16:02 – Final thoughts: the kids didn’t ask to be here


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