Category: Abandonment

Dear Chump Lady, Abandoned while pregnant, should he pay support?

Dear Chump Lady, It’s been 9 months since I came home from work and my fiancé of 4 years said, “I’m not happy and this …

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Over Sharing and Chumpdom

Over sharing seems to be endemic to the chump experience. In your shock and trauma, you’ll dump your bucket of emotional slop on anyone standing …

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Dear Chump Lady, Why do I think my marriage still has a shot… when it doesn’t?

Dear Chump Lady, I filed for divorce from my lying, cheating husband a few weeks ago. I was absolutely miserable and tried reconciling for almost …

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Why You Can’t “Nice” People Out of Affairs

Well folks, I just finished my BBC radio interview with Ms. Allison Fern. I think you can link to it here. (Allison Fern, noon, April …

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Dear Chump Lady, Is he a cheater?

Dear Chump Lady, My husband of almost 10 years sat me down on the couch one day and told me, “I think I’d like a …

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Dear Chump Lady, 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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Dear Chump Lady, I still want to call him

Dear Chump Lady, I have been living and following my new year’s resolution for three months now. “Chump no more in 20 1-4.” You have …

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Dear Chump Lady, He left to go “find himself”

Dear Chump Lady, I am a 38 year old mother of two small children (4 and 1) with my husband who I’ve been with for …

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Dear Chump Lady, Am I the Only One?

Dear Chump Lady, I have been reading your blog for quite a while and I know that every story is different but I wonder why …

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Dear Chump Lady, She cheated 49 days into our marriage. WTF?

Dear Chump Lady So thankful that I found your blog. My narcissistic, bipolar, bisexual, substance abusing, money spending wife cheated on me in 49 days …

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Dear Chump Lady, Are there cheaters who left no clues?

Dear Chump Lady, There is a lot of talk on this site and others about how — in retrospect — cheaters left clues that we …

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Cheating on the Pregnant, and Other Acts of Abandonment

I was reading Modern Love in the Sunday New York Times yesterday (one of life’s great pleasures). It was a story about a women in …

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