Today’s column is a guest post from Rarity — who left a cheater, and gained a life. Enjoy! — Tracy My husband effectively abandoned me for another woman when I was pregnant with our second. Our 7-year-old was disabled (22q deletion syndrome) and I was trying to finish a master’s degree. I hadn’t worked full-time since […]
The Walls In Your House Will Sing
This is a true story submitted to Chump Lady by her Aunt J. I’m rerunning this today, because we can always use a reminder that there are good people out there. A post-script, my aunt and M are still together — it’s been 32 years. Sadly, M was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s two years ago. He’s hanging […]
The Pep Talk You Would Give Yourself at D-Day
Instead of our usual snarking, today’s Friday Challenge is to think back to your first (or 15th) D-Day and give yourself a pep talk. I know, I know… you might be four weeks since D-Day and can’t imagine anything as rousing as “perhaps I will drink that entire can of Ensure.” But trust me, however wobbly […]
Dear Chump Lady, I need some karma stories STAT!
Dear Chump Lady, I’ve reached my lowest of lows since DDay 7 months ago. I’m going through the nastiest settlement negotiations with my philandering soon-to-be-ex. He is living with his whore (more PC name that attorneys use is “paramour”) in my home and I am displaced. He is fighting me over everything, every nickle, every […]
Tiffany Glass Windows
Hey, I’m rerunning a favorite today. Meanwhile, don’t forget to craft your Valentine’s Day Infidelity poems! — Tracy Hi chumps! I’ve been on vacation with my family in Orlando, Florida for a few days. Yesterday my mother and I visited the Morse Museum in Winter Park, which if you find yourself in the Disney World […]
Time Again for a Mightiness Check
Today, we’re keeping it positive, chumps! It’s time once again for Tell Me How You’re Mighty. To newbies, every 6 months or so, I ask readers to tell me what new, kick-ass things they’re doing since they took their lives back. And the answers are always inspiring. If you’re in the early days, and you […]
A Guy Chump’s Tale from the Other Side
Today’s post is from Steve, who’s been with the blog almost from the start. He recently wrote to say he’d gotten engaged (now happily remarried), and I asked him to share his “leave a cheater, gain a life” story. So here it is! Enjoy! — Tracy First off my entry has plenty of Chump Lady […]
Aspiring to Marriage
“No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than once they were. As some of the petitioners in these cases demonstrate, marriage embodies a love that may endure even past death. It would […]
HGTV’s Hilary Farr, Queen of the Boundaries
I confess I’ve got a thing for the HGTV show “Love It or List It.” It completely appeals to my chumpy, codependent senses — you take a hideous pile, see the potential, and then transform it into something beautiful and worthwhile. Of course, this sort of transmogrification never works on humans. (Seriously, don’t fall for […]
Tiffany Glass Windows
Hi guys, I’m on the road today, so forgive me, I’m running an oldie from 2013. But given the new number of chumps who join us everyday, perhaps some of you haven’t read it before. Back soonest! — Tracy Hi chumps! I’ve been on vacation with my family in Orlando, Florida for a few days. […]
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