If you're reading this, the floor just dropped out.
Maybe she told you yesterday. Maybe a week ago. Maybe a month, and you're still in the haze of it. Either way, the first weeks of separation are the most disorienting time most men will ever experience — and they're also the time when the worst decisions get made. The angry texts. The drunk phone calls. The promises and the threats and the begging. The conversations with your kids you can't take back.
What this guide is for
This is the first of five guides in the BetterDads Separation Series. It's short. It's honest. It's written by a dad who's been through it, with input from the men who walked it before us. It won't fix your situation. It will give you something to hold on to while the ground is still moving.
What you'll find inside: how to stabilise the first 72 hours, what to say to your kids and what not to, the four mistakes most men make in the first month, the grief that doesn't have a name yet, and how to ask for help in the way men actually can.
It's three pages. Read it tonight. Then read it again in a week.