For anyone who searched it and then cleared their history

So… you googled divorce.

A free guide for the part before any decision, so you can sort the questions you can actually go find out from the ones that just need time.

Maybe nothing happened. Nobody cheated. Nobody packed a suitcase. You’re sitting next to the person you’ve been married to for seventeen years, in traffic, nothing is wrong, and there’s a pit in your stomach anyway.

Maybe you keep thinking, I can do this for another year. And then immediately, but can I do this for another ten?

This guide is not going to tell you to get divorced. It’s a place to think.

Have you had this thought?

“Nothing is THAT wrong.” Am I waiting for something worse to happen so my feelings will feel justified?
“Maybe we just need to try therapy again.” What would need to be different this time?
“But what about the kids?” The internet has two answers, and neither one knows your children.
“What if I regret it?” and “I can do this for another year.”

What’s inside

Six thoughts, examined out loud, with questions worth sitting with for each
The 2:47 a.m. questions, each labeled: a reflection question (it needs time) or an information question (someone can tell you)
Feeling and fact: how to tell which is which when they’re tangled
What happens now, if anything, and none of it requires deciding tonight

No score, on purpose

There’s no page at the back that adds up your answers.

If something is handing you a conclusion, you’re being sold one. This hands you better questions.

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I’m not an attorney or a therapist. This guide makes no recommendation about your marriage and contains no state law. If what you’re carrying is heavy, a licensed therapist is the right person for that, and seeing one is fully compatible with staying, with leaving, and with not knowing yet.

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