Online Support Groups Near Louisville
Whether you are in Jeffersonville, New Albany, St. Matthews, Shelbyville or somewhere else on either side of the Ohio, ShareWell has live online support groups for people whose relationship has become the hardest thing in their life. In Louisville, where families go back generations and everyone seems to know everyone, leaving or even questioning a marriage is something the whole street will notice.
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 Louisville.
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Hard to leave in a city where everyone stays
Louisville is a big city that behaves like a small town: people marry someone from the next parish over, settle a few streets from their parents and run into their high school classmates at the grocery store. That makes a troubled relationship unusually hard to talk about, because the in-laws are at every holiday, the pastor married you, and the friends you would confide in are also friends with your spouse. People in controlling or unkind marriages often stay for years longer than they want to, partly because leaving would mean leaving a whole web of family and community at once. Those who do separate find that the city is small enough to keep running into the past.
How peer support helps near Louisville
A peer group gives you somewhere to say what you cannot say to anyone who knows you both. You join from home or from a car in a parking lot, the people in the room have no connection to your family, and over the weeks you get clearer about what you want.
What members near Louisville talk about
- Staying in a marriage you are not sure about
- Emotional abuse or control that nobody outside the house can see
- Separating when your families are intertwined
- Rebuilding after a divorce in a town where everyone knows
Who these groups may help
- People questioning a long relationship for the first time
- Anyone in a controlling or unkind marriage who needs an outside view
- Those going through a separation surrounded by shared friends
- People who have left and are learning to be on their own
Support group topics for people near Louisville
Every topic has its own page with live groups, so you can start with the one closest to what you are carrying.
Areas around Louisville
Every group meets online, so you can join from home anywhere around Louisville.
- Jeffersonville
- New Albany
- Shelbyville
- Elizabethtown
- St. Matthews
- Shively
- Jefferson County
- Southern Indiana
- Oldham County
Crisis and help lines near Louisville
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.
- Seven Counties Services Crisis Line502-589-4313
Louisville and surrounding Kentucky counties
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Frequently asked questions
Do I need to live in Louisville to join?
Can I join without my spouse knowing?
Will the group tell me to leave my marriage?
Can I join from Southern Indiana?
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