Beyond Divorce is a companion community with Divorce Care & Support. DCS is a great place to discover when divorce comes along, but after a while many DCS members reach a point in their lives and, in their divorces, where they are past the initial shock and grief. Members of Beyond Divorce are usually but not necessarily divorced, and trying to get their lives into a normal day to day pattern. That is what Beyond Divorce is all about.
Beyond Divorce is not a competing site of DCS but a natural extension of it. It is meant to be a next step because there is a next step and there always will be next steps to the rest of our lives. Whether you are divorced or not, our aim is to continue to help and support. Our divorces are part of our lives and our lives will still continue in their human variations. We can continue to support each other by sharing those variations as they arise.
There are many issues beyond the divorce. Finances, children, in-laws, shared friends from the marriage, leftover issues from that marital relationship, dating, mixed families, potential re-marriage, and alternatives to re-marriage.
Once you accept the divorce and when your divorce has been granted, where do you wish to go with your life? What are the hurdles and issues that you face? Some of them are probably financial, some of them about dating relationships, some about children who aren't going to stay little babies, some about step-parents. If you have children, there are ongoing issues with them and their relationships with you and their other parent. If you don't have children, maybe you are thinking about getting into another relationship because you want to have a child with a person who would be a good father or mother (and a good mate, eh?).
Maybe you simply want to talk about what is leftover from your divorce and go into future relationships without the so-called "baggage". It is the aim of Beyond Divorce to help each other with those issues.
This community is a place for people who want to reinvent a new life - learning dating skills, job skills, how to single parent, learning how to handle their finances alone, or even how to cook for themselves, or repair the lawnmower.
Beyond Divorce is managed by folk who moved thru DCS in their journey of recovery.
Our goals are to help others notice their lives, live in those moments and notice what works well and what doesn't with children, with new relationships, with Ex's, with family, neighbors and friends, and with jobs and community involvement.
While we'd like Beyond Divorce to be more "light hearted" and fun, all that is left for us to do isn't always fun. We can still find fun but we hope that you will help us help others walk into our respective futures and appreciate new days. Our goal is to help people reinvent lives that will help them, us and all who come after us. The basic goal is to help one another discover our new lives, as single people, as dating people, and as those who have found a new way of love that may potentially lead to taking the big step again to marry.
Together, shall we find our way Beyond Divorce?
Our new lives begin right now. You're welcome to join us!"
