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UBT: Monogamy Is a Gift

April 13, 2021 by Chump Lady

gift

You know you’re wading in deep bullshit when you see the title “The Unsparing Genius of Esther Perel.” Oh please do spare us such genius. Sorry. “Leading Mindful Living Expert” and “Certified Yoga Therapist” Ira Israel broadcasts to The Good Men Project and Huffington Post that Esther Perel is nothing short of GENIUS. (Like picnics are a few […]

Filed Under: Esther Perel, Quacks Tagged With: esther perel, monogamy, Reconciliation Industrial Complex 119 Comments

Esther Perel’s Myth of the Good Cheater

September 23, 2020 by Chump Lady

So, Esther Perel follows me on Twitter. Which is big of her considering I told her to bite me. On the other hand, there might be something in it for her as she’s writing a book on infidelity, according to the New York Times, and is only taking on new clients “who have experienced infidelity.” Perhaps she’s studying […]

Filed Under: Blameshifting, Esther Perel, Quacks, Reconciliation Tagged With: esther perel

Discovered CN by Googling ‘I Hate Esther Perel’

August 18, 2020 by Chump Lady

Hopium

Dear Chump Lady, I’ve only very recently stumbled on your blog (actually, last night at 2 AM, and I’ve read about a hundred posts so far!). I wonder if you can help. I could really use the help, because I’ve let myself become nuts. I was recently left by my (ex-)partner, for nobody in particular. […]

Filed Under: Hopium, Pick me dance Tagged With: esther perel, Hopium, Trust That They Suck

UBT: Jada’s ‘Entanglement’

July 13, 2020 by Chump Lady

Jada Pinkett Smith Red Table

To all of you who sent me Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith’s Red Table public service announcement for Reconciliation After Entanglement — the Universal Bullshit Translator is toast. It’s a simple machine and it really can’t handle this much Esther Perel sophistication before breakfast. To those out of loop, Deadline reports: The Friday episode of […]

Filed Under: universal bullshit translator Tagged With: esther perel, Jada Pinkett Smith, Red Table, Will Smith

Esther Wants to Help You Grieve

April 23, 2020 by Chump Lady

Celebrity shrink, Esther Perel, who I’ve pilloried here many times, has been on a reinvention campaign of late. First she declared herself an “executive coach“, now during this pandemic, Esther would like to be our grief counselor. Being the world’s most well-known cheater apologist probably isn’t a good look right now. That’s okay, because Esther has many […]

Filed Under: Esther Perel Tagged With: coronavirus, esther perel

UBT: What Sleeping With Married Men Taught Me About Infidelity

December 5, 2019 by Chump Lady

schmoopies

Oh Modern Love, what-the-everliving-fuck? A bazillion of you sent me Sunday’s New York Time’s ML column — a look at relationships from the point of view of a 49-year-old woman who screws married men. Because… well, you know how it goes after divorce, when you create Tinder profiles for no-strings-attached sex, and lonely, tragically misunderstood, sexless men reply […]

Filed Under: universal bullshit translator Tagged With: esther perel, Karin Jones, Modern Love, Universal Bullshit Translator

UBT: Investigative Questions for Couples Experiencing Infidelity

September 5, 2019 by Chump Lady

shrink

Every crime needs an investigation. Not to worry, Inspector Esther Perel is on the case! And now you can be an amateur sleuth too thanks to this free download on Amazon: Investigative Questions for Couples Experiencing Infidelity. Whodunnit? Well, that’s obvious. It’s that cheater sitting next to you. (Gasp!) But is it really? Maybe… maybe… […]

Filed Under: Esther Perel, Quacks, Reconciliation Tagged With: esther perel, infidelity

Esther Perel Can Bite Me

February 26, 2019 by Chump Lady

I first wrote this take down of Esther Perel’s bullshit in 2014. She’s only gone on to greater fame and word salad, which is striking when you consider we live in a #MeToo moment and Andrea Dworkin is being rediscovered as a prophetess. (I’d like to shamelessly point out I was ahead of this zeitgeist […]

Filed Under: Blameshifting, Esther Perel, Quacks Tagged With: Cheaters, esther perel, infidelity

Let’s blame the children?

September 17, 2018 by Chump Lady

An alert chump sent this article in Today’s Parent: “What happens after the affair—when you have kids?” Apparently, children are hindering Otherwise Good People from their journeys of epic self-discovery. What with their teething and their sticky fingers and inconvenient vulnerability, mommy and daddy can’t get any sleep, no I mean strange. What are you […]

Filed Under: Blameshifting, Children and infidelity Tagged With: Blameshifting, Children and infidelity, esther perel

Where’s Esther?

September 1, 2015 by Chump Lady

As this Ashley Madison hack has unfolded over the last couple months, I’ve begun to wonder, “Where is Esther Perel?” Surely this is the biggest Infidelity News Story of the last year? Decade even? It’s huge! Millions of Ashley Madison users on Quests for Aliveness, committing Exuberance Acts of Defiance (in secret, with credit cards […]

Filed Under: Ashley Madison, Esther Perel Tagged With: ashley madison hack, esther perel, infidelity

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