Trapped in the Car and Facing the Facts

Tom was trapped: stuck on a 13-hour road trip with his wife — and his marriage on the rocks.

“Something’s wrong,” Liz started, and Tom’s heart sunk.

The Newmarket couple was heading from Ontario to visit family in New Brunswick. She wanted to have it out with him — then and there.

Tom knew, hurtling down the highway, there would be no escape. He had to face facts.

Things had been rocky for some time now. Just six months into their relationship, Liz had told him he was driving her nuts.

Always interrupting. Forgetting to do things. Talking non-stop. Ridiculously disorganized. And a total slob.

And now, after a year and a half, she had had enough.

But Liz had an idea — and a possible solution.

“Do you think,” she asked him, cautiously, “you could possibly have Attention Deficit Disorder?”

Read the rest of this well-reported story, by Kim Zarzour, here at Ontario’s Georgina Advocate website: