Hey, it is the first back-at-work Monday in the New Year and I believe it’s time for another Mightiness Check here at Chump Lady. I’m …
I’ve told the story here many times about how on my 40th birthday I shoveled cow manure. Ordered a truck load of the stuff for …
Hi folks, just home from epic holiday travel. Airport delays, sullen teenagers, those horrible people in coach who recline their seat all the way into …
I don’t have any sassy snark for you guys today, sorry. Last night I learned my dearest friend Yoma lost her husband, Warren yesterday. When …
You know how something around your house can just bug the hell out of you? (I see you all raising your hands… I’m not talking …
Dear Chump Lady Here is a silly question. I have been through years of hell. In short, like most people here, my husband of thirty …
I get a lot of mail and many of my questions boil down to — How will I ever manage? How can I be alone? Surely …
Cartoon from http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/06/this-is-why-ill-never-be-adult.html I was reading on Facebook this morning and a friend of mine (a fellow former chump) recently lost her mother. She requested …
If you ever wonder why I do what I do, why I keep writing about infidelity long, long after it ceased to be relevant to …
Okay chumps, I need some uplift. This week it’s been abandoning daddies, abortion, and blogging. I think it’s time for another “Tell Me How You’re …
(Photo: Curt Chergosky) After two consecutive posts on Alain de Botton, I feel like we chumps need to collectively cleanse our palettes. Instead of effete …
In our post on Joseph’s Letter, a lot of you shared that you wrote similar self-abasing dreck. Nomar wrote: “What humiliating dreck! What unholy drivel! What …
So yesterday Chris came up with this great shorthand about how cheaters react to adult problems in selfish ways. His example: PROBLEM: My wife and I argue …
After our epic thread on Friday about how we all found out we were chumps, several folks asked for a post on trusting again. To …
I’m sure by now you’ve realized you did not get the life you were expecting. You can react to that in two ways — you …
One of the ugly repercussions of infidelity are triggers. Mercifully, triggers go away in time — really, I swear — as you approach “meh.” I …
There was an interesting side discussion the other day on Chump Lady about the difference between niceness and kindness. Many people noted that their cheaters …
Lately, I’m beginning to wonder if I’m everyone’s divorce fairy godmother. At least in my real life here. (I mean, I ask for it on …
Dear Chump Lady, My tragicomedy of chumpdom is well-known here, so I won’t waste space rehashing it. I’m pretty far out at this point: my …
Dear Chump Lady, Thank you so much for your articles. They have been immensely useful and have given me deeper insights about relationships. I was …