Category: Narcissism

The Royal ‘We’ Takes Credit

Were you expecting credit for your accomplishments? The other day Kara pointed out the dynamic of FWs appropriating chumps’ work: The Royal “We” of Taking …

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Gerard Pique

Shakira’s Ex Plans to ‘Keep Doing What I Want’

  View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Gerard Piqué (@3gerardpique) In Maybe You Should Keep Your Pie-hole Shut news, Shakira’s ex, …

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Universal Bullshit Translator

UBT: ‘I Like Me. A Lot.’

Dear Chump Lady, So, I finally left my FW husband of 27 years after enduring two years of mindfuckery after I learned of a series …

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Elon Musk

7 Ways Elon Musk Is Your Average Dime Store Narcissist

I gotta say I’ve been watching this whole implosion of Twitter story with interest. Not because it has anything to do with infidelity — although …

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planet narcissist

How to Co-Parent with a Narcissist

Thoughtful people blanche at labeling anyone a narcissist, but if you divorced a serial cheater, or worse, bred with one, you don’t need the DSM. …

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Alex Jones

The ‘I’m Sorry, We Good?’ Play

I consider myself something of a connoisseur of disordered FWs, so I’ve been riveted by the Alex Jones trial. To anyone tuning in, Jones is …

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schmoopies

Defending Incomprehensible Life Choices

Today’s Friday Challenge comes from DoingMe. Inspired by yesterday’s post about Christie Smythe’s torching her life for a FW, and then being smug about it, …

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Pick Me Dance Fail

I have a dear friend — we’ll call her Lisa — whose father is…. well… a piece of work. He was a very successful executive, …

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Johnny Depp

Untangling Depp vs. Heard

It seems like it’s a bad thing when a guy who admits to drunken rages, threats, and “jokes” about defiling his wife’s corpse wins a …

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Will Smith

Will, Jada…. Esther?

I’m sorry to interrupt your regularly scheduled Friday challenge to bring you this resurfaced 2019 video clip of Jada Pinkett-Smith mindeffery (that half of CN …

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Narcissist Goldfish

Why Can’t He Be Happy for Me?

Dear Chump Lady, You’ve helped me more than I can say in the wake of D-day almost a year ago after the RIC threatened my …

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A Leave-a-Cheater Tuesday Story

Dear Chump Lady, I’m writing with tears in my eyes, not because of what was done to me, but because of how overwhelmed I am …

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joss whedon

Joss Whedon’s Non-Apology

Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator, screenwriter, and master of attempted facial hair, Joss Whedon gave his side of the story to New York Magazine last Monday, …

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UBT: Brent Sadler’s Douche Solidarity

If you cut Brent Sadler, does he not ooze? Sadler, has-been war correspondent in search of relevancy, wants the world to know that #HeToo has …

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ego kibbles

UBT: ‘I May Be His Mistress, But I’m Not a Homewrecker’

Another Lebkuchen-worthy submission to the Universal Bullshit Translator… Tis the season for over indulgence, so onward we go with Your Tango’s clickbait “I May Be …

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Ben Taylor

UBT: Narcissist Cheater Life Coach

Here’s a curious business plan: be a serial cheater, embrace your narcissism, and monetize that shit as a life coach. Ooh, where do I sign …

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broken heart

How to Help a Chumped Parent?

Dear Chump Lady, I would be truly grateful for some advice here and don’t know where else to turn. I have always known my father …

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luggage

Accept the Love Bombing Gifts?

Dear Chump Lady, I am 60 years old (happily divorced for 10 yrs) and I have a (male) friend from college — we have been …

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Worst of the Flying Monkeys?

Today’s Friday Challenge by popular demand (from last week’s Friday Challenge) is… … Flying monkeys! I don’t know about you, but those winged primates used …

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mindfuck

Idolized, Devalued and Dumped

Dear Chump Lady, I’m a professionally successful gay man in his mid-thirties. I live and work in the U.K. as a doctor and am on …

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