Category: Pick me dance
You Could Be Friends!
Among the more patently moronic submissions to Stupid Shit Cheaters Say is the assertion that if you knew the affair partner, you’d really like them. …
The Futility in Confronting Affair Partners
Here’s a common chump mistake — confronting the affair partner(s). Maybe you did this. Maybe you agonized about doing this. Maybe you’re still waiting to come up with the perfect withering remark to deliver along with your poisoned umbrella tip. Let me spare you the trouble — don’t go there.
Dear Chump Lady, Help, I slept with my ex!
Dear Chump Lady, I have been an absolute idiot and an asshole. For almost one year after X and I split (we hadn’t gotten married …
Dear Chump Lady, She wants me to fight for her?
Dear Chump Lady, I found out last week that my wife has started an affair right under my nose: she comes home one evening saying …
When Affair Partners Marry
The other day I was watching TV and this ad came on for glitzy, casino holidays in Oklahoma. God help the ad executives who were trying their darndest …
Dear Chump Lady, The OW exposed the affair on Facebook
Dear Chump Lady, My sister has been married for 15 years. Six months ago, she discovered that her husband had been having an affair. The other …
Dear Chump Lady, My husband is having an emotional affair with his HS girlfriend
Dear Chump Lady, I uncovered an emotional affair my husband was having that started before we began dating. They were “the ones who got away” …
Dear Chump Lady, How do I get over the pick-me dance?
Dear Chump Lady, I just turned 24, and was recently chump-ified by the first and only person I have ever been with, loved, etc. It …
Dear Chump Lady, I feel like I betrayed the OW
Dear Chump Lady, I need some validation that I’m not a terrible person who deserved to be cheated on. We were together 2 years, first …
Dear Chump Lady, I’ll leave him after I lose 20 lbs
Dear Chump Lady — I know this is ridiculous, but somehow I am stuck on this point. I’ve been waiting to lose 20 pounds to dump …
Dear Chump Lady, Should I fight for her?
Dear Chump Lady, My wife and I decided to start separation and divorce today. She really is my best friend and we’ve been together 17 years …
UBT: “I was just experimenting”
“Brad” recently submitted this bit of mindfuckery to the Universal Bullshit Translator: “I had to sleep with him to figure out if I wanted to …
Dear Chump Lady, My husband wants an open marriage
Dear Chump Lady, You’ve written cogently about the way cheaters employ a double standard rather than asking for open marriage. So I’d like your take …
The Condescension of Other Women
Whether it’s XOJane, Huffington Post, the Daily Mail, I swear I can’t read anything written by the Other Woman without obligatory “pity” for the poor chump. Shock. Horror. …
Dear Chump Lady, I neglected him and this is all my fault
Dear Chump Lady, Some background: Married 12 1/2 years, 2 kids in elementary school. I have been a stay-at-home-mom for 10 years. My husband travels …
Let Me Tell You All About Them!
One of the classic “Stupid Shit Cheaters Say” utterances is, “You know, if you met (the affair partner), you’d really like (him/her)! They’re a lot …
How Pretty Did You “Pick Me” Dance?
I’ll read here in the comments, “I was the champion pick-me dancer.” Or “No one perfected the pick-me polka like I did.” It seems many of …
Dear Chump Lady, Is she prettier?
Dear Chump Lady, My husband cheated on me with some woman, but he won’t tell me who she is. I don’t know anything about her …
Dear Chump Lady, Can you please stop me begging for my marriage?
Dear Chump Lady Can you please help me stop begging? I can’t even believe I wrote that out loud. Everything he has done to me …
The Pick Me Dance for Fun and Profit
After the last couple batshit crazy OW texts I’ve put through the Universal Bullshit Translator, I was thinking to myself — why? Why do Other Women (and …
