What is going on inside?

When I handled divorce clients, I often got panicked phone calls. Clients would seem to stay and put up with bad behavior until they couldn’t take it anymore then immediately want help out. Before you go public with your divorce status, take a day and think over how you feel, what you are thinking, and what your beliefs currently are. Then think about where you want to be a year from now. This is for you and no one else. Later you may want to share it with a therapist.

  • If you need to Google an emotions wheel do it. What are you feeling? Sad, angry, depressed, relieved, happy, excited, afraid.

  • What do you think about yourself? Your situation? Marriage? Your children?

  • Where did you learn and what do you believe about marriage? Do you consider all marriages to be a compromise? Do you think no one has a happy marriage? Or that it is something you have to do?