Keeping in the theme of thanks, today’s Friday Challenge was suggested by a CN member — Holiday Traditions You No Longer Must Endure. When you lose a loser, you lose so much more — crappy gift giving, marshmallows on sweet potatoes, insufferable drunk uncles… And if you’ve ever spent holidays as a chump, there’s also […]
Best Sad Sausage Performances
A pernicious and predictable bit of mindfuckery after D-Day is the Sad Sausage. Did you find evidence on a cell phone? This is absolutely heartbreaking! For them. How COULD you! Need some questions answered? This is not a good time right now. They’re in a shame spiral and need some space (from you, consequences, probing […]
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 to freak me out as a child. The Wicked Witch was bad enough, setting Scarecrow on fire and zooming around sky-writing threats. But those freaky little monkeys in their organ […]
Your Friday Challenge Is…
Today’s post is gonna be meta. Your Friday Challenge is… Friday Challenges. What would you love to see Chump Nation weigh in on? Worst RIC book you ever read? Former Switzerland Friend Get Chumped? Lamest Celebrity Fauxpology? Ooh, or how about brain injury? A show of hands if you thought your D-day was caused by […]
Cell Phone Names for FWs
By popular request, today’s Friday Challenge is… What do you call your ex on your cell phone? Blocky McBlockface? Do Not Answer? Do you have a special ringtone? (Hells Bells by AC/DC comes to mind…) In an ideal world, you’d just rock the total no contact, but many are still in the grey rock trenches […]
Infidelity Is Abuse: Discuss
Imagine you’re on a podcast with Esther Perel. Or it can be any smug Reconciliation Industrial Complex quack of your choosing. Or perhaps it’s an insensitive disc jockey. And you must muster your arguments on this provocative idea: infidelity is abuse. Not an unfortunate thing that happens to unlovable, controlling, sexless people who brought it […]
D-Day Anniversary Benchmarks?
Dear CL and CN, As I approach the one-year anniversary of D-day (September 26) I am taking time to reflect on what I did right and where I am. I’m proud that while I didn’t find LACGAL and CN until later, I didn’t make too many mistakes. I did dump him as soon as I […]
Got Jesus Cheaters?
Summer is ending and one’s thoughts turn to Jerry Falwell, Jr. Disgraced princeling to Liberty University. Sex scandal Jesus cheater? (Which one? I know… so many.) The guy having the three-way with the pool boy? Anyway, that didn’t turn out so well. After the bad publicity, he got shit-canned and Liberty filed a $10 million […]
Rituals for New Lives?
Today’s Friday challenge comes from ChumpAsItIs. She writes: My story is the same as many others, more than 20 years of marriage, ex-husband stepped away, did not know whether he wanted to stay with me, said he loved me but needed some time to think, you know, the usual tale. He was able to make me unknowingly […]
Rewrite Your Story?
Hi Chump Lady, D-Day 1 for me was in 2013. He was sleeping with a colleague; she was a divorce attorney in the midst of a divorce with another divorce attorney. They were “in love” and she was “amazing” and I would “really like her” if I weren’t so “jealous.” I pick-me-danced and “won” three […]
