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‘I Can’t Face Being a Single Mum’

February 18, 2021 by Chump Lady

Dear Chump Lady, I’ve been thinking about writing to you for months but I just haven’t been brave enough… I found out in April 2020 that my husband was having an affair with a woman he worked with for 6 months. I think going into lockdown in March had driven him mad and not getting […]

Filed Under: Divorce, Other Women, Single parenting Tagged With: divorce, Other Woman 254 Comments

Dear Chump Lady, Why do I feel a new man is the answer?

February 20, 2019 by Chump Lady

Dear Chump Lady,  I have been divorced for 2 years (total 4 years with the separation) and my ex quickly moved on with another woman. Even though I know for a fact their relationship is dysfunctional I still feel he “won” and that he is viewed as a happier person because he is in a […]

Filed Under: Ask Chump Lady, Gain a life, Single parenting Tagged With: Mighty, Single parenting

Dear Chump Lady, I’m suddenly a single mom

June 13, 2018 by Chump Lady

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). Six months ago my husband of four years (together nine years total) told me he wanted “out.” He said he tried marriage, but it wasn’t working out for him. He […]

Filed Under: Abandonment, Ask Chump Lady, Children and infidelity, co-parenting with a fuckwit, Single parenting Tagged With: Single Mom

Dear Chump Lady, My mother doesn’t support my divorce

February 20, 2017 by Chump Lady

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 (today I put a deposit down on an apartment for myself and my 16 month old daughter) as I approach my divorce and crushes them, most likely unintentionally, but it […]

Filed Under: Abandonment, Ask Chump Lady, Single parenting

Dear Chump Lady, How do they flip so fast?

September 23, 2015 by Chump Lady

Hi CL, I’m guessing by now you’ve heard it all but here’s my story: My soon-to-be-exhusband and I have a one-year old together, we never had any marital problems and he was actually one of the most caring, involved fathers I’ve ever met. Then we found out he was deploying (military) and he said “well if […]

Filed Under: Ask Chump Lady, Character disorder, Single parenting

Dear Chump Lady, How do I help my friend move on?

April 6, 2015 by Chump Lady

Dear Chump Lady, I looked at your website because my dear friend (the chump) posted on her facebook a recent cartoon. It’s been over 3 years and all of us are trying to help her move on, especially for her 22, 19, and 14 year old children. It’s awful. We knew them before they were […]

Filed Under: Ask Chump Lady, Children and infidelity, Single parenting

This Is What You Missed, You Idiot

October 24, 2013 by Chump Lady

Did anyone catch Jennifer Ball’s moving essay on HuffPo, “This Is What You’ve Missed”? It’s a recitation of the small and significant moments that her ex-husband has missed out on when he abandoned their four children for his mistress. Marrying her, having another child, and then having nothing to do with his original family ever […]

Filed Under: Single parenting

The Unending Punishment of Breeding with a Fucktard

July 29, 2013 by Chump Lady

If you’ve had the misfortune of breeding with a fucktard, you know that this misery just keeps paying dividends. You may successfully remove yourself from their toxicity, but your kids have to keep navigating this shit until they’re 18. It sucks donkey balls. It’s one thing to deal with their mindfuckery. It’s quite another to […]

Filed Under: Children and infidelity, Narcissism, Single parenting

This Mother’s Day? Take a Single Mom to Brunch

May 10, 2013 by Chump Lady

An essay I submitted to HuffPo divorce for Mother’s Day (no idea if it will run, if it does, I’ll post the link.)  I was a single mom for most of my son’s childhood, and I have to confess to you as hokey and shameful as this is — every Mother’s Day I coveted one […]

Filed Under: Holidays, Single parenting

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