Parting With Care

You may be deciding whether to stay, ready to say it, or just told that your partner wants to go.

This book follows a separation in the order it tends to happen. It helps you decide, find words for your partner, your children, and friends and family, and get through the first month if you're the one being left. Then it turns to untangling a shared life: how separation and divorce generally work, sharing a home, moving out, the money, and parenting from two homes. Every chapter works whether or not you're married.

Inside you'll find:

• One honest reason, and scripts for the conversation itself
• Shared words for telling children, with versions by age
• A shared money map, a house agreement and a first parenting plan
• Questions to ask any lawyer or mediator, wherever you live

There are 47 tools in all: 16 worksheets, 18 checklists and 13 scripts, collected again in the toolkit at the back.

Clear, kind help for ending a shared life with as much care as you can.

This is Book 7 of A Clarity4Couples Guide, eight books that follow a relationship from wanting one to the year after it ends. It's for reflection and general information, not therapy or professional advice.

Created with generative AI and edited by the author.