Dating with ADHD feat. Author Emily Farris

Girls Gotta Eat

Ashley Hesseltine

Relationships, Society & Culture, Dating, Comedy, Sex, 977170

4.6 • 29.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2025

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

We loved our conversation with Emily Farris, author of I’ll Just Be Five More Minutes, about being diagnosed with ADHD at 35 and how it has impacted her life, especially in relationships. She shares her story of feeling different growing up and what brought her to getting a diagnosis, how she manages it now, dating with ADHD, social anxiety and drinking, hyper fixation and time blindness (ahem, chronically late people), the issues that arose in her marriage, postpartum anxiety, and her decision to get divorced. We also chat about dating someone who is neurodivergent, and the types of people who are best equipped (and worst equipped) to enter into that relationship dynamic. Before Emily joins us, Rayna has been making men feel needed, and we share the whole story of finding Ashley’s wedding dress. Enjoy!

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0:00.0	If you can't have a sense of humor about your relationship and about your partner, do not date a person with ADHD.
0:23.0	This podcast is a Dear Media production.
0:24.3	Hi guys.
0:25.1	Hi guys.
0:27.2	Welcome back to another episode of Girls Gotta Eat. Welcome back.
0:28.0	Still coughing.
0:29.2	My back is broken now.
0:30.4	Oh, you got your back blown up.
0:32.2	You blew your own back out.
0:33.1	I really did.
0:33.8	I'm really paying for my mistakes.
0:35.5	Yeah.
0:36.1	I have sciatic nerve damage. Oh my God.
0:39.5	Damage is a leap. I picked up a heavy plant and I hurt myself. That plant did not look that
0:45.3	heavy. I picked up three of them. Okay. Not at the same time though. It was the third. There's one on each
0:51.6	arm. You're like, I'm so strong.
0:54.8	Look at me go.
0:56.9	Yeah, I've just, you got to, I'm getting older.
0:57.5	You got to stretch.
0:59.1	You do have to stretch.
1:04.3	Well, speaking of working out and stretching, so last night I did my first 30-minute Peloton back from being sick.
1:06.3	I've been like easing back in with 20s and 15s.
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