Category: Abandonment

Dumped By Speakerphone After 9 Years

Hello Chump Lady, You’ve probably heard almost all of it, but I’m not positive you’ve heard this one. This happened in April: My partner at …

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Nice or Nasty? How Could She Be So Wrong About a 30 Year Marriage?

Clare called in and left a message for the Tell Me How You’re Mighty Podcast: I have a question for you. I’m not sure if …

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Cheaters Are Not Worth Your Precious Life

Dear Chump Lady, God bless you for being there to help chumps! God bless Chump Nation for sharing stories and support to help chumps! Five …

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raccoons

Where Do I Put His Stuff?

Dear Chump Lady, I need some advice on what to do with cheater’s stuff. My partner of 16 years left me and our 9-year-old for …

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mindfuck

I Have Cancer, But the OW ‘Suffers’

Help Chump Lady! I’ve made a complete and total eejit of myself this week……so ashamed….. One and a half years ago husband starts affair. Simultaneously …

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Origami swan

Be Free, Unfold the Swans

Dear Chump Lady, When is a not-a-chump, a chump? See, seven months ago, my partner of 21 years, husband of a mere 17 and a …

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How Do They Flip So Fast?

Hi CL, I’m guessing by now you’ve heard it all but here’s my story: My soon-to-be-ex-husband and I have a one-year old together, we never had …

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Five Months Pregnant and He Announces He’s Getting His ‘Needs’ Met Elsewhere

Hi Chump Lady, A little about my situation: I’m five and a half months pregnant with my and my boyfriend of four years’ much wanted …

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not a unicorn

Will He Commit After the Baby Is Born?

Hi Chump Lady, My soon-to-be-ex started acting distant mid-March (2022) and moved to a spare bedroom. Two weeks later I discovered his affair: He was …

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The Affair Partner Is Daughter’s Coach

Dear Chump Lady, My very handsome husband of 15 years (we have 3 kids ages 14, 13 and 11 and one on the way due …

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Left Her with 4-Month Child So He Could Be ‘Happier’

Hi Chump Lady, On my last first birthday without soon-to-be-ex husband, I am all filled with emotions. My husband and OW had an affair while …

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twu luv

‘My Husband Got Engaged’

Dear Chump Lady, My husband got engaged. (This statement does not contain a typo, although even a search engine tried to get me to add …

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trapeze

He Left to Join the Circus

Dear Chump Lady I think my friends are getting sick of my rants about my abusive ex and sometimes I just don’t know when my …

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Mother-in-Law Says: ‘Let Girlfriend Take Over’

Dear Chump Lady, It’s 4 months now after D-Day (got a text message at the death bed of my mum in May with heartfelt birthday …

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broken heart

Need CN’s Powerful Words of Support

CN, today I’m not my usual snarky, sassy self. I’m running “WishinforHappiness’s” letter and ask you that you send some comfort to one of our …

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mindfuck

He Doesn’t Know If He’ll Come Home

Dear Chump Lady. He left December 5th out of nowhere. He went to work and showed up with a u-haul. He told me for weeks …

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Therapist Says Not to Tell Anyone Her Husband Cheated

Dear Chump Lady, Do you think chumps should tell their family and friends that the reason they are separated from their spouse is because he/she …

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freedom

I Don’t Feel Mighty. I Got Left.

Dear Chump Lady, Being the sleuthy sleuth I am, I discovered my husband of 15 years’ “emotional” affair (um yeah…her husband hired a private investigator …

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wayward

Did He Cheat Because He’s Depressed?

Dear Chump Lady, Please help me sort through this mess. Help me get angry! My husband and I were together for 6 years and married …

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Controlling the Narrative

Dear Chump Lady, My now soon-to-be-ex husband of almost 30 years cheated on me twice — that I know of. The first one and the …

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