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We Can Do Hard Things

189. Abby for the 1st Time On Divorce & Her Unrequited Love

We Can Do Hard Things

Treat Media and Glennon Doyle

Relationships, Education, Self-improvement, Society & Culture

4.842.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In Part 2 of our deeply personal interview with Abby, she reveals for the first time: 1. Her romance with an unrequited love – someone who strung her along hopelessly for years; 2. Her anguish and rebirth after being arrested; 3. Her sense of loss when being crowned FIFA Player of the Year;  4. Her divorce after fighting for marriage equality – inside her own family and on the public stage; and  5. The night she met Glennon. Before you start the episode, please go back and listen to Part 1 of our interview with Abby: We Can Do Hard Things Episode 188 Abby Wambach: Will I Ever Be Truly Loved? And come back tomorrow for Abby’s *very* special Part 3 bonus episode! ABOUT ABBY WAMBACH: Olympian, Activist, Author, and Co-host of the We Can Do Hard Things Podcast Abby Wambach is a two-time Olympic gold medalist, FIFA World Cup Champion, and six-time winner of the U.S. Soccer Athlete of the Year award. She was the United States’ leading scorer in the 2007 and 2011 Women’s World Cup tournaments and the 2004 and 2012 Olympics. Abby is the host of ABBY’S PLACES on ESPN+, in which she showcases what makes her beloved sport of soccer a worldwide sensation. An activist for equality and inclusion, she is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller WOLFPACK as well as the adaptation of WOLFPACK for the next generation, an instant New York Times bestseller. She is a founder and part owner of Angel City FC, the first majority-female-owned soccer team in history, and is a member of the Board of Directors for the non-profit organization Together Rising. Abby lives in California with her wife and their three children. TW: @abbywambach  IG: @abbywambach

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome back to We Can Do Hard Things.

0:13.6

If you have not listened to part one of this series about the Mary Abigail Wombok, please

0:23.9

go back and listen to the first episode.

0:26.6

We are interviewing my love Amanda Sister-in-law, Abby Wombok.

0:33.6

The theme that we keep coming back to in Abby's life is love.

0:37.8

From birth till now, relentless pursuit of love and all the different forms that's come

0:43.9

in her life so far.

0:44.9

We've talked about her mom, her love story with her mama, Judy, her love story with

0:49.3

soccer, the soccer, the love story of her first marriage.

0:55.0

And now we're going to get into one of my favorite topics, which is addiction and what

1:03.0

it is.

1:04.0

And I think it can be a different thing for everybody.

1:08.9

What I've always thought of when I think about you and your drinking is that you seem to

1:20.2

like a lot of people use drinking as a way of not knowing something that in your bones

1:26.9

you know.

1:28.8

For example, in the last episode you talked a lot about knowing that something was missing

1:34.8

in soccer because you got to the highest of the heights and it didn't, as you say,

1:39.6

is your angst.

1:41.2

You also had a knowing, and this is all the same time in your life, that your marriage was

1:45.7

not working.

1:47.8

But you could not let yourself know that because you are not a quitter, because you felt

1:54.3

like you were carrying the entire queer future of marriage on your back and you couldn't

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