You’ll Get a Kick Out of Abby Wambach and Glennon Doyle’s Love Story


What she did not point out on the time was that she was already newly smitten with Momastery blogger Glennon Doyle.

No stranger to overcoming private points, Doyle battled bulimia at a younger age and drank and did medication in school, ultimately deciding to get sober in 2002 when she obtained pregnant together with her first baby. (When she discovered she was anticipating, she married her now-ex-husband, as a result of “I believed it was the proper factor to do,” she instructed Glamour.com.)

“I might by no means even kissed a woman, so I had no context for what was about to occur to me,” Doyle divulged on MamaMia’s No Filter podcast in Could 2020. “However when Abby walked within the room, I am telling you, it was like that [inner] voice that I had been training listening to and trusting [after my separation] simply screamed. My complete self was like ‘there she is,’ and I simply knew.”

A few month later they began corresponding, Doyle recalled, and a month after that, “I sat down with Craig and stated, ‘It is over. I am in love.’ By the best way, Abby and I had by no means seen one another exterior of that room. We spent 10 minutes collectively after which dismantled our whole lives to be collectively.”

As Wambach recalled to the New York Occasions, “We could not have been a worse match for one another. Glennon had a husband and three youngsters and lived in Naples, Fla. I might been sober for a month, my marriage was falling aside, I’d simply left my soccer profession of 30 years and I lived in Portland, Ore.”