When I started down the oh, so lovely path of divorce, I was in such an emotional fog I could some days barely put one foot in front of the other proverbially speaking. (As a good friend so aptly put it, ‘someone get me a weaving kit, because I’m a basket case!’ ) So strange then to think that our country’s divorce rate has been in the 50% range for several decades now, and yet when one starts down that path, one must reinvent the wheel each time.
At a point when you have so little energy for anything other than basic life necessities, you must summon a huge amount of creative energy that you can ill afford to part with to navigate the labyrinth that is divorce. Why is there no central information gathering point so that you aren’t left with the often utilized, yet less than fabulous option, of asking friends if they know anyone who has been through this that can give you the name of a divorce attorney? Or... You would like to see a counselor of some sort to parse through your nearly fried brain remnants, but you are too embarrassed to ask people who they might recommend.
When several people asked for my input on the same things I had been looking for inputs on after we had started this process, the concept of Savvy Split was born:
-- Create a community that could constantly evolve and improve through collaboration.
-- Provide information to those early in the process who have little energy to start at ground zero.
-- Provide support to those folks as well as others farther along, yet still in need of an understanding ear or a tip on how others got through a certain situation.
We can all help each other and in so doing somewhat destigmatize divorce as an indirect benefit perhaps. That's our hope anyway.
