Telling Friends, Family, and Co-workers About your Divorce By Michelle Moore, PhD Updated: August 02, 2022 Categories: Children and Divorce , Considering Divorce , Coping with Divorce , Preparing for Divorce After sharing the news with your kids , the next step is to take an inventory of who else needs to know on a need to know basis. Telling Friends, Family, and Co-workers About Your Divorce This is the stage in which, essentially, your private divorce begins to go public. F riends and family First and foremost, give yourself a little time to process your own feelings . When it’s time, and you feel ready, recognize that in telling friends and family, many of the same rules that applied with your children will overlap. For starters, try to have some kind of script or plan in place based on what you feel comfortable sharing. Decide how much you want to share and hold true to your boundaries. Be prepared for questions, and be p...