§ Journey
You know now. The marriage and the children and the next forty years are the questions.
The realisation, and what you owe yourself before you owe anyone else. Time, therapy, and the conversation you''re not yet having. Telling her — how, where, what you can and can''t say. The kids question by age. The legal and financial reality of separation in this specific case. What life on the other side can look like.
Begin →The moment of clarity, however it arrived. What you owe yourself first.
Therapy first. Time. Why a single decision made fast at this moment is almost always the wrong one.
How, where, what you can and can't say. What you owe her. What you owe yourself.
By age. What to say. What to leave out. How to be honest without making the kids the audience for your own work.
Separation, custody, property under Australian law. No-fault doesn't mean equal. The mediator's job. The lawyer's job.
Identity. Dating. Friendships. Family. The version of life that begins on the day you stopped pretending.