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Separation Survival Guide

A Six-Month Field Manual for Married Men After She Leaves or Files

Available · Ebook $9.99 · Paperback $19.95

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She just left, or someone just handed you papers. The next 72 hours are when men set fire to their own futures. This book is the six-month survival of the split: the first night, the housing and money, the kids, the lawyer, the long middle, and the fork at month six.

Instinct right now is pursuit or destruction. Both feel like action. Both follow you into courtrooms, bank statements, and the kids' calendar.

You will find a sequence a man in shock can run, then a nightly scorecard, then a structure for the months after the shock thaws. The marriage question is later. It is not a 72-hour problem. Whatever happens to the marriage, the man who comes out of this year is the one you start rebuilding tonight.

What the six months cover

Impact: the day it becomes real, the mistakes that follow men, where you sleep tonight, how to stabilize the body and the mind.

Infrastructure: two households, the lawyer, the process in plain English, the documentation habit, custody realities, telling the kids.

The long middle: co-parenting under fire, work, who your people are, the nights that go dark, the rooms, the calendar.

The other side: the decisions at the fork. Book 2 is the 90-day rebuild. Book 3 is the life after the decree. This one is survival of the acute season.

What this book is

A six-month field manual for the split: first 72 hours, housing and money, the kids, the lawyer, the long middle, and the fork at month six. Hire a lawyer in your jurisdiction before you sign, move, or agree to anything lasting.

If tonight is worse than confusion, call or text 988 in the US (Suicide and Crisis Lifeline) before you do anything else. This book is not a substitute for that, or for a doctor, or for counsel.