Tag: Hopium

Hopium

UBT: ‘It Has Not Broken Me’

Most of us understand being high on hopium, lost in the Reconciliation Industrial Complex. But a unicorn who polygraphed a Jesus-cheater-sex-addict? That’s some Pablo Escobar-level hopium. …

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chasing unicorn

I Love My ‘Wonderful’ Addicted Cheating Wife

Dear Chump Lady, This is the first time I have put our story out there into the infidelity community. We have been married 30 years. …

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Avoid feelings of paralysis

Living Together Until Cheating Wife’s Affair Partner Is Free

Dear Chump Lady, I need some real advice as I am not doing well. I met my wife in 2000 and we married in 2003 …

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chasing unicorn

Hopium and the ‘Power of Maybe’

You ever wonder why hopium is addictive? Apparently, there is some interesting brain science on this. You’d think, when you get a kibble (he went …

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unicorn problem

This Is Your Brain on Hopium

Hopium is a powerful drug. You can hand a chump the most desperate set of circumstances, and goddamn it, that chump will work with it. …

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Hopium

Maybe He’ll See What He’s Missing

Dear Chump Lady, I am a little over three months out from D-Day now and I feel I have given myself a major setback. I …

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mindfuck

He Doesn’t Know If He’ll Come Home

Dear Chump Lady. He left December 5th out of nowhere. He went to work and showed up with a u-haul. He told me for weeks …

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not a unicorn

Is He a Unicorn or a Narcissist?

He left her for the OW. Now he’s back on weekends. Planting a garden. Buying her gifts. Having sex. Is this… reconciliation? Chump Lady wields the clue bat.

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Hopium

Seconding Guessing Yourself About Leaving

Dear Chump Lady, My husband has cheated on me with two different women over the course of the last year and a half. I found …

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unicorn

Getting a Friendly ‘Weird Vibe’ from Ex-Wife

Hello Chump Lady, My ex wife and I divorced in July and since then, I’ve gotten very strange vibes from her. I discovered she was …

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no contact

Struggling with No Contact

Dear Chump Lady, Holy crap, Chump Lady, I feel like hell today. This No Contact is killing me. I woke up with a sense of …

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Hopium

UBT: The Apology That Never Came

Hello Chump Lady! I’ve got a fine bit of BS here and I’d like to see what you think. Brief background: My ex-wife had an …

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Hopium

Your Long, Strange Hopium Trips

Chumpy hearts die hard. Armed with the smallest evidence that a freak still cares, a chump will assign great significance to scraps. HE CALLED (to …

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Hopium

Chump Won’t Stop Doing Her Ex Favors

Hello, Chump Lady. I am hoping that you and Chump Nation can help me help a chump. My cousin, who is like a sister to …

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Hopium

Discovered CN by Googling ‘I Hate Esther Perel’

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 …

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cheat on me

‘Other Chumps Infuriate Me’

Dear Chump Lady, I was cheated on years ago. It was a horrible, messy, painful two years. I wish I’d had your book back then …

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unicorn problem

Sparkles The Magnificent Dry Drunk Unicorn

Dear Chump Lady, I am currently in limbo while I get the finances in order and fully decide what I will do. He wants to …

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Hopium

Should I Give Him a Fourth Chance?

Dear Chump Lady, I stumbled upon your blog after my husband cheated on me for the third time, and then left me shortly after our …

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unicorn problem

This Is Your Brain on Hopium

Hopium is a powerful drug. You can hand a chump the most desperate set of circumstances, and goddamn it, that chump will work with it. …

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Hopium

Hope versus Hopium

I wrote once that chumps need to “bludgeon hope with a fencepost and operate with total lucidity.” Which doesn’t sound exactly hope friendly. But I …

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