Category: Abandonment
Emotional Affairs, Exit Affairs, and Ghosts
Dear Chump Lady, Can I still be in the CN club? Do I still get to hate my husband as much as everyone else here …
“What do I tell my crying children?”
Dear Chump Lady I have been reading your site for weeks now after discovering (after several years of suspicion) that I am an enormous chump …
Dear Chump Lady, I’m suddenly a single mom
Dear Chump Lady, I’m a mom of two young kids. (My son will be 3 in August and my daughter turned 1 two weeks ago). …
Gwyneth Paltrow Can Bite Me
I’m sorry. I hate “conscious uncoupling.” On the one hand, I’m thrilled this bit of word salad is getting the snark and derision it so …
You Picked a Fine Time To Leave Me, Lucille
Anyone remember that Kenny Rogers’ song? “You picked a fine time to leave me, Lucille With four hungry children and a crop in the field …
Dear Chump Lady, Can’t quite shake the rejection…
Dear Chump Lady, Long-timer lurker, first-time writer. Post-abandonment three main issues keep reverberating around my head: 1. My ex’s (geographically distant) family didn’t say goodbye. …
Dear Chump Lady, Why meh? Why not screaming?
Dear Chump Lady, My D-day came about reading an email between my husband and his bimbo. When I previously discovered something going on, he swore …
Dear Chump Lady, Will anyone ever love me with stretchmarks?
Dear Chump Lady, I am two weeks post partum. I was left by my husband when I was 6 months pregnant. He had been cheating …
Dear Chump Lady, The cheater wants to take family photos
Dear Chump Lady, We have a newborn. He left and filed divorce when I was 5 months pregnant after I caught him on a hook-up …
UBT: I’m a broken empty person searching for meaning and happiness before I die
Dear Chump Lady, It’s nearly one year to the day since ex walked out on me and our two kids into the arms of the …
Dear Chump Lady, I left my perfect husband
Dear Chump Lady, I love love. I am a published romance writer, I have loved the gooiest love stories since I could even understand them, …
Dear Chump Lady, 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 …
The Ones Who Just Leave
A lot of the advice I give here is on no contact, or assessing the sincerity of a cheater’s remorse, or of decoding the mindfuckery of …
Dear Chump Lady, Why am I thinking “If only…”?
Dear Chump Lady, Would love some tough love. One night after making a healthy gluten-free meal for my husband, kid, and kid’s sleepover friend, hubs …
Dear Chump Lady, Did she leave because I’m not good enough?
Dear Chump Lady, Here I am, devastated again, and looking for insight and, well, quite frankly, a firm wake up. I married my dream girl …
Dear Chump Lady, My mother doesn’t support my divorce
Hi Chump Lady, I am writing this letter after another deflating conversation with my mother in which she takes what small victories I can muster …
UBT: A Letter from “the Baby”
Dear Chump Lady, I have one that I would LOVE to go through the Universal Bullshit Translator. As a chump I so want to believe he is truly …
Dear Chump Lady, How long do you think this affair was going on?
Dear Chump Lady, My husband of 6 years (together for 10) left me and our (then) 6-month-old son 8 months ago. He said he hadn’t …
Dear Chump Lady, Should I divorce his cheating, Mormon ass?
Dear Chump Lady, My story began last October when my husband of 11 years had a three week affair with random online girl. I found …
Dear Chump Lady, When does the pain go away?
Dear Chump Lady, My question for you and perhaps more so, Chump Nation, is when, how long does it take before the pain goes away? …
