Why I Started SoulForge Community

There's no single moment I can point to and say that's when I decided to build this. SoulForge Community grew out of years of slow, hard reckoning — first with what had been happening to me inside my marriage, then with what unfolded after it ended. By the time the idea took clear shape, it felt less like a decision and more like something I owed: to the men coming up behind me, and to a younger version of myself who could have used something like this and didn't have it.

I'd been married for fourteen years before I left…