Online Support Groups Near Hartford, Connecticut
Whether you are in West Hartford, New Haven, Waterbury, Stamford or somewhere else in Connecticut, ShareWell has live online support groups for the parents who stayed after the children left. Across the state, grown kids take jobs in Boston, New York or farther away, and the house they grew up in gets quiet in a way nobody warned you about.
Every group meets online by live video, so you can join from home.
These online groups start during the day and evening in Eastern time, so they fit a day near Hartford.
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When the kids built their lives somewhere else
Connecticut is a state of small towns where families put down roots, and then the next generation leaves for a city with more going on. The result is a lot of parents in their fifties, sixties and seventies rattling around a house that was sized for a family, with a spare bedroom that is only full at Thanksgiving. The weekly phone call is not the same as having them close. Some of those parents are also looking after their own mother or father in the same town, and the ones in Fairfield County spent decades on a train to Manhattan and are now home all day with a spouse they barely saw during the working years. Everyone is pleasant about it, and nobody says out loud that it hurts.
How peer support helps near Hartford
A peer group puts you in a room with other people whose children are three states away and whose evenings got quiet at the same time yours did. You join from the kitchen table in Glastonbury or a condo in Stamford, and the group is one standing appointment in a week that used to be full of other people.
What members near Hartford talk about
- The quiet house after the last child moves out of state
- Retirement arriving at the same time as an empty nest
- Looking after an aging parent while your own children are far away
- Grief for a spouse in a town where you were always a couple
Who these groups may help
- Parents whose grown children live in another state
- Retirees who spent their careers commuting and are home now
- Couples who are getting to know each other again after the kids
- Widows and widowers in the towns along the Connecticut River
Support group topics for people near Hartford
Every topic has its own page with live groups, so you can start with the one closest to what you are carrying.
Areas around Hartford
Every group meets online, so you can join from home anywhere around Hartford.
- West Hartford
- New Britain
- Manchester
- Middletown
- New Haven
- Waterbury
- Bridgeport
- Stamford
- Fairfield County
- Springfield, Massachusetts
Crisis and help lines near Hartford
ShareWell groups are peer support and are not crisis or emergency services. If you or someone near you is in danger, call 911, or call or text 988 to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at any hour.
- Connecticut ACTION Line1-800-467-3135
Adults anywhere in Connecticut, also reached by dialing 2-1-1, 24 hours a day, every day
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Support groups in other cities
Frequently asked questions
Do I need to live in Hartford to join?
I live in Fairfield County. Is this page for me too?
Are there groups for people my age?
My spouse and I would both like to come. Can we?
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