How we help
Wherever you are, we’ll meet you there.
Separation and divorce touch every part of life: you, your kids, the legal side, money, and what comes after. We’ve been through each of them. Everything here is free.
Thinking about it
Nothing is decided yet, and you don't have to decide anything here.
- Self
- A first conversation with someone who has been there.
- Kids
- What members wish they had known about telling the children. Read the Note
- Legal
- What the process is really like, from people who went through it. Read the Note
- Financial
- The money questions members wish they had asked early.
- Post-divorce
- Hearing from people who rebuilt their lives.
Going through it
The hardest stretch. You don't have to go through it alone.
- Self
- Your local group, support circles, and Virtual Support Hours online.
- Kids
- Kids' and family days, where kids meet other kids who understand. Read the Note
- Legal
- Members who have been to court share what to expect. Read the Note
- Financial
- Members share what helped with costs and budgets.
- Post-divorce
- Not yet. One step at a time.
After it
The papers are signed. Life keeps going, and it can be good again.
- Self
- Hikes, karaoke, game days. Friends again. Read the Note
- Kids
- Co-parenting conversations, and family days. Read the Note
- Legal
- Members' experience when the terms aren't kept.
- Financial
- Rebuilding your finances, from members' experience. Read the Note
- Post-divorce
- Dating again, step-families, a new normal. And, when you're ready, being there for the next person. Read the Note
If you’ve lost someone
Some of us were widowed. Some lost a child, through death or through losing custody. You’re welcome here, at whatever pace is right for you.
How we connect
- Group chats by where you live, and focused groups for one topic at a time, kept strictly to that topic.
- Gatherings in person, and Virtual Support Hours online every other Sunday. Gatherings
- Notes written from members’ experience. Notes
StriveForward offers peer support, not legal, financial or clinical advice. For guidance on your own case or your family, a licensed professional is the right person. We’re here alongside that, not instead of it.