Her husband is obsessed with his coworker, but swears he isn’t cheating. He just wanted the Other Woman to “like and appreciate” him.  *** Dear Chump Lady, My story is long but I want to summarize as best I can. I discovered my husband of 35 years (he was 65 years old at the time)... The post appeared first on Chump Lady ..read more

She wants to know how to coparent with a man child who wants to spend holidays together after he walked out for his affair partner. Why does she have to keep playing the heavy? *** Dear Chump Lady, I’m having a hard time with the concept of co-parenting and “what’s best for the children”. My... The post appeared first on Chump Lady ..read more

The Other Woman mailed her a copy of Leave a Cheater, Gain a Life to get her to leave her husband. She did. Now what? *** Dear Chump Lady, I’m sure you’ve heard similar outrageous stories before, but your book was anonymously mailed to me two years ago by my husband’s affair partner. She wanted... The post appeared first on Chump Lady ..read more

Her Jesus Cheater sends a prayer to his chump, to stop her from divorcing him. The Universal Bullshit Translator is here for it. *** Dear Chump Lady, So, my husband of seven years fed me the fairytale. Everything you would want in a husband he encompassed. He was handsome, loving, supportive, kind, thoughtful, caring — the list... The post appeared first on Chump Lady ..read more

A cheater’s sad sausage lament “Neither of us is perfect” is fed to the Universal Bullshit Translator in all its blameshifting, false equivalence glory. *** Dear Chump Lady, One for the UBT, please.   This was brought on by a note I discovered this morning in which he asked a third party to tell the Other... The post appeared first on Chump Lady ..read more

Out of the blue, her husband asked for a divorce and then she discovered he is already engaged. It gets worse. *** Dear Chump Lady, I’m a new chump actively going through the discovery phase. I hit a new low over the weekend when I found out that my husband of 5 years (dating 10)... The post appeared first on Chump Lady ..read more

Is it the truth or situational truth? How to tell the difference and why it matters. *** Stephen Colbert coined the awesome word “truthiness” when referring to politicians who spin their own versions of reality. They seem so sure of themselves, who cares if it’s not the truth? It’s truthy! Similarly, the food writer Michael... The post appeared first on Chump Lady ..read more

She just discovered her boyfriend’s double life, which included mistresses on multiple continents. How does she process the pain? *** Hi Chump Lady, Last year I ended my long-term relationship with my boyfriend of 6 years. We lived together, when I ended the relationship I felt like a heavy load had been lifted from my... The post appeared first on Chump Lady ..read more

Sleeping with married men taught her so much about infidelity. 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... The post appeared first on Chump Lady ..read more

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Lauren Sanchez (@laurenwsanchez) Lauren Sanchez’s boobs attended a White House dinner this week. Ostensibly, this event was to welcome the prime minister of Japan to Washington, D.C. during cherry blossom season. The actual star of the show was Jeff Bezos’s mistress’s décolletage. Vacuum-packed into a red-lace... The post appeared first on Chump Lady ..read more