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Wasted $600 on a 'divorce coach' who just told me to journal
Hired this guy online who promised a step-by-step plan to get through my split. Spent three sessions with him over Zoom and all he did was say "write down your feelings" over and over. I could have bought a nice espresso machine for that cash and gotten more useful advice. Anyone else fall for a pricey service that was basically common sense wrapped in a fancy website?
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jakeb2520d agoTop Commenter
Is it possible you went in expecting a lawyer or therapist when this guy was just a life coach? I get that $600 hurts, but you might have missed the point a little. Journaling is actually one of the few things backed by real research for processing a split, not just some made up trick. A coach isn't going to fix your marriage or give you a legal plan that's on the lawyer's job. The real value is having someone hold you accountable to do the boring work like journaling or making a budget. I wasted money on a fancy lawyer once who just told me to breathe, so maybe we both learned something about checking what we're actually paying for.
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the_rowan20d ago
Read a piece in The Atlantic a few months back that said most life coaching is just repackaged self-help books from the 90s. Sounds like you got the premium version of that experience.
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