New Free Newsletter

Please take a moment to sign up for our new Free Newsletter today, and we'll send you periodic information geared specifically towards getting you the on the road to recover as soon as possible. You're going through a tough time right now, whether you're trying to save your marriage or just get your divorce over as soon as possible, and the more informed you are, the more successful you'll be. It just takes a minute, it's free, and it's a great way to keep someone in your corner, offering advice and helping you get your life back on track.

2011 and Beyond
I am basically an optimist, I tend to believe that good things will be coming along and I try to do what I can to make sure they do. With that in mind, I'm working through some changes to the section of the site specifically geared towards saving marriages.

From studying the patterns of the typical visitor to this site, it has become obvious that most people who visit are not yet divorced, and are looking for ways to avoid divorce, and so we're going to make sure if that's why you're here, you'll find what you need to help you be successful in your attempt to get through your whatever problems are affecting you right now.

If you find what you're looking for here, won't you help us spread the word? Send a link to a friend, mention us on your Facebook page, share a Tweet with someone. There's plenty of people out there who will thank you for sharing some positive information on this most negative of all subjects.

It wouldn’t surprise me to find that the question “How did I get here?” is running through your mind about now.

Of course, I’m not really talking about how you got to this site, I’m talking about how you got to this point in your life, so far away from how it all began, here to the point where your marriage appears to be crumbling around you.

Don’t worry, everyone asks themselves this question at some point or other.

For some, the answer might be “I got here because I had an affair and my spouse caught me…”

For others, the answer may be “I got here because my spouse cheated on me and I’m leaving him/her…”

And still others might answer “I got here because the fire has gone out of my relationship and I want out."

Some might even answer “I don’t know how the hell I got here, and right now I’m not even sure where HERE is!”

I’ll tell you something right now though, no matter how you answer that question for yourself, no matter the circumstances that brought you to this point, we’re going to do our absolute level best to provide you with some worthwhile information while you’re here.

Before we get started, a few housekeeping tips:

First, this site has a lot of information, more than you can expect to digest successfully in one visit, so please bookmark the site right now so it’s easy to return. You should also take a moment and sign up for our free newsletter so we can deliver our very latest information directly into your inbox.

Second, if you’re looking for advice from folks with credentials and college degrees, you won’t find a bunch of them here. While we do get contributions from time to time with folks who sign their names with a bunch of letters after them, for the most part this site has been put together by people just like you. People who were going through life with other plans when Divorce hit, people who have walked the path you are heading down now, people who have felt the pain your feeling, the confusion, the anger, the sense of loss, the whole package. And we’re just here to help.

Third, you’ll notice that we link to some very select advertisers here, relevant advertisers with good products that we think may help. These advertisers pay the bills that go along with keeping this site online, so if you do make use of these links, you’ll be helping us stick around.

That’s it for now. Settle in, get comfortable and start to dig around in here. We’re glad you found your way to us, and we’ll do our best to make sure the time you spend here is time well spent.

One word of warning, there'll be no beating around the bush here. I'm going to talk to you like you're an adult. I'm going to try to give you some clear straightforward information that you'll be able to use to make things just a little less painful. I want to help you through this, and get you back on your way to living a full, happy life. So, as long as you're ready for some straight talk about what's going on, let's get on with it.

The navigation links on the left will take you the start of each major section of this site. If you're not sure where to start, I'll suggest you go straight to the "Save Your Marriage" section first. Unless you've already completely made up your mind to divorce your spouse, or unless your partner has just informed you that he/she is divorcing you, there might just be a chance that you can fix your relationship. Until you're sure, I don't think you should toss in the towel.

We know that going through a Divorce is something just about no one is prepared for, so we also think that one of the things you should be doing right now is getting yourself completely educated. To that end, we've put together our own Survive Divorce Bookstore, where you can get access to a whole library of excellent material on all the different aspects of this turbulent time. Please check this important resource out as you work through the site.

One of the things I respect the most is when people make a profession out of helping people. In my own search for divorce advice and information, I came across a couple of people who I felt were doing an absolutely excellent job of helping people manage the turbulent waters that must be navigated during a divorce. One of those people is Mort Fertel.

Mort offers up tons of great information on his site, but more importantly, he'll work one on one with you to help try to save your marriage. If you do nothing else, I recommend you visit his site and sign up for his free "e-help" series of newsletters. They are absolutely packed full of information you need today!

Another person I wound up coming across is Ben Coltrin.

Ben has taken an incredibly innovative approach to the most common struggle for divorcing Parents, putting together software solutions to the help you manage the difficult process of putting together a Custody and/or Visitation plan. Let's face it, in this process of working through the legal details of divorce, the more prepared you are, the better your chances are that you'll wind up with a custody and visitation schedule that you can live with. Ben even let's you try the software for Free, so there's no risk at all!

And lastly, I found an e-book that I think is essential to anyone contemplating a divorce. It's "Divorce Ammo" and it covers lot of what no one else will tell you about divorce. Trust me, you're going to get a lot of advice from everyone when they find out you're going divorcing, most of it will be well meaning advice, but much of it will also be ill-informed. Be careful to educate yourself from lots of different sources so that you don't wind up making things worse by taking advice from a friend or relative who doesn't really know all the ins and outs of what you're going through.