It’s been more than three months since Tristan Thompson was outed as a serial cheater. He was cheating on Khloe Kardashian with several women, all while Khloe was pregnant. She gave birth to baby True shortly after his affairs were revealed, and ever since then, Khloe has been doing the most to try to convince people that she and Tristan are working on their relationship. She allegedly still wants to marry him, even though she thinks she’ll have to keep him on a “short leash.” She thinks she’s very, very strong to stay with him. They’re apparently in couples therapy too.
All of this mess has felt like the Twilight Zone to me. Tristan so obviously wanted to sabotage his relationship with Khloe. He so obviously wanted Khloe to dump him, so he could be free and bang everybody and anybody. The way he’s behaved previously and currently has been a pretty good indicator that he’s not looking to stick around. And Khloe looks like a total doormat. Well, quelle surprise, Us Weekly claims Tristan is feeling “trapped.” You don’t say.
Not everything is as it seems. Though Khloé Kardashian and Tristan Thompson remained together after he was caught cheating in April while she was pregnant, a source says in the new issue of Us Weekly the couple aren’t on the best of terms. “Khloé and Tristan are still not fully OK,” the insider says. “They act like they are when they’re in front of others, but it’s all a show at this point.”
The parents of 3-month-old True have tried couples therapy, says another source, but it didn’t help. “Tristan is feeling trapped in a bad relationship,” adds another source. “He’s no longer going with Khloé for sessions. He just didn’t feel it was helping to discuss s—t that happened months ago.”
The pair finally returned to L.A. mid-June after welcoming their daughter in Cleveland, while the NBA star was playing for the Cleveland Cavaliers. And her Kardashian Klan couldn’t be more thrilled to have the Good American designer, 34, back. “They’re so happy,” a close pal to the family told Us at the time, before adding they’re more cautious of Thompson. “They know that in order to have Khloé back in their lives, they have to accept him,” adds the source. Still, “they’ll support Khloé in whatever she chooses.” But now Thompson, 27, wants out. The second source adds, “He wants to go back to Cleveland ASAP.”
How shocking, said no one. OF COURSE he wants out. OF COURSE he’s over it. My guess is he’s already trying to sabotage this “reconciliation” too. He doesn’t want to be there, and no amount of bulls–t “happy family” press from Khloe is going to change that. He’s even checking out of their couples counseling. Tristan Thompson is like the Ben Affleck of the NBA, the master self-saboteur who simply acts like a giant douchebag until his partner finally dumps him.
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Should have wrapped it up. It’s sad, but i don’t think Tristan wanted this baby with Khloe and he certainly doesn’t want Khloe
yes to all of what you said. he wanted out, she somehow manipulated him into trying to “work on it” but his heart wasn’t in it before and it sure as hell isn’t now.
OF COURSE “He just didn’t feel it was helping to discuss s—t that happened months ago.” because therapy is supposed to help you understand why you do the things you do/did, and he knows damn well why he strayed. because he wanted some strange and he wanted out of the relationship.
Khloe, grab the last shred of your dignity and DTMFA. you can try to co-parent and you’ll have people supporting you for that, but don’t try to keep this guy.
If a guy didn’t want to be with me, I wouldn’t want to be with him.
Yes, +1 to both whatWHAT and minx. Women, you deserve a partner who really loves you; don’t keep hitting your head on the pavement trying to manipulate or force someone into wanting you!
This is what happens when you raise your daughter to think she’s only worth something when she’s with a man. Add to that other insecurities stemming from childhood and growing up next to a more attractive sister, and this is the result.
When a woman with a healthy self-esteem gets disrespected by a guy, she thinks “He doesn’t treat me well, so I need to dump him and go look for someone who will treat me the way I want to be treated”. Whereas Khloe thinks “He doesn’t treat me well, so I need to stick around and change myself to prove to him I’m worthy of his love and respect”.
ttu – you just perfectly described me when I was 25 and recently divorced. I ended up with a guy that treated me like total shit and I could NOT deal with that in a healthy way! I felt like I HAD to prove I was worthy of his love and respect, and somehow that just never happens. Good thing I’ve grown as a person as to not ever allow something like that to happen to me again.
I completely agree with all of you, but he needs to grow some balls if he doesn’t want to be with her. Be the bigger man and end it, it shouldn’t all be on her. I don’t like her and her ass of lies but the man seems to have no spine.
Yep. Khloe is a mess.
This guy is not a relationship person, at least not right now and not with her. He needs to face it and say so and walk. She needs to let him be heard and let him go. She’s as toxic as the men she gets involved with, no winners here.
I wonder if he was relying on her birth control methods. Which all can fail, of course, and more than one approach can fail at once. Poof, there’s a baby.
And of course if she wanted a baby, she could lie to him about what precautions she was taking.
The gossipy, conspiracy me doesn’t think ANY of these baby girls were failure of birth control. The timing, the gender, four little ladies within a year…the next generation of story lines.
I just don’t put anything past this group of liars.
Right with you @TTE.
Also, he holds his phone over his crotch, so screw that.
Hahahaha! Ehhh, what a tosser. I don’t know anyone in my life who does this. Is it just a celebrity thing? Everyone I know has their phone in their bag or pocket. Maybe we are either too lazy or too clumsy to constantly have it in our hand when not in use…? 🤷♀️
Maybe it comes from the whole “hold your hand over your crotch” thing, and now phones are an extension of the hand. Why not just paint a giant phallus on the phone case and be done with it.
Does it offend you because of aesthetics, or radiation concerns?!
Coming back to this later … ha ha ha.
Someone yesterday said, imagine if men got huge huge testicle implants the way women get huge chest implants. I had to laugh, you just know it’s coming.
Well dump her then. It will give us some good threads
i cackled!
Right! Just break up with her then! Nobody has to stay in a relationship that they don’t want to be in. It’s not like if he breaks up with her everyone will suddenly think he’s a horrible guy. We already think he’s a horrible guy. I just can’t believe how this man can be both so egotistical and self centered that he cheats on every romantic partner he’s ever had, feels entitled to sex with whomever he wants whenever he wants it, and yet at the same time is too cowardly to actually break up with the women he doesn’t want to be with anymore. What a strange personality mix. I imagine that he’s just going to get someone else pregnant as a way to force Khloé hand, but even then, I can see her refusing to let him go.
But he has to wait for Kris to think of an appropriate story line to work this mess into their show.
🙂
Exactly @Michael! I don’t get this whole trying to make *her* break up with *him*. If he really wants out then he should just break up with her, problem solved. Then he can move on to the next woman he’ll impregnate and cheat on.
Yes please. I need a good snicker.
Open door. Walk through. Close door behind you. There!
The imminent demise of a family with a small child is getting exactly the respect a Kardashian deserves.
How shocking, said no one. Ha! That was my first thought and am being redundant bc it was Kaisers as well!
He obviously doesn’t want a serious relationship with Khloe, so he should end it. Nobody should be forced to stay together with someone they don’t love. Sorry, Khloe, but he’s not interested. Time to let go of what’s never going to happen
Well, man up and have real talk with her then! Or isn’t there a human being attached to the wandering penis of his?
Hahahahahaha, whatever. I laughed out loud at your comment!
I don’t really care about the Kardashians, but why do men do this? Is it really worth the effort to sabotage a relationship? The easiest way to end something is just to end it.
My long term ex was distancing himself from me for almost a year. Every time I brought it up, he’d say that he was just stressed at work and had to work long hours, etc etc. Like an idiot I said that I understood and that I supported him. Finally I reactivated my Facebook account and it took two seconds to figure out he’d been cheating the whole time, and that woman is now his serious girlfriend. He took her to his brother’s wedding FFS. Why would such a selfish ass waste his time stringing me along like that? Why not just break it off and be done with it?
Usually it’s about guilt and perception. They don’t want to be in the relationship but if they leave then they’re the bad guy who broke your heart, but if you leave because of their withdrawal from the relationship, then you just drifted apart and he’s not at fault.
Bubble Bee – you hit the nail on the head – exact explanation of why men do this – most are friggin’ wimps and it is all about guilt and perception of looking like ‘the bad guy’. Many of us have been there Stumpycorgi so please do NOT beat yourself up about it but DO LEARN from it and never let it happen to you again. We all deserve a man to love us unconditionally and we should never feel like we’re not being treated well nor a priority. When you meet the right man, you’ll know why all the others didn’t work out. All the best to you!
One of the best lines I’ve ever heard on this was on Mad Men, where Joan told Peggy: “Men don’t take the time to end things. They ignore you until you insist on a declaration of hate.”
Stories like yours are what always made me nervous about relationships. Is the guy serious or just playing games, is he cheating, am I being used, are things I used to worry about. Anyone who selfishly strings a person along like that is a waste of time, and a pig. Unfortunately there are plenty that are like that
Stumpycorgi, been there…the next thing I know, he’s getting engaged. To my friend. Now, we are not even acquaintances. On a plus side, I met my husband six months later and we’ve been together since then.
Been there also. I kicked mine to the curb when I found out he had gotten an apt. then lied to me where he was going one night. Called him and told him to never step foot in the house again. Karma got him as his brand new Charger was stolen one night.
In this case, it’s because he’s stuck with her. Professional sports teams loathe off court drama, and Kardashians destroy men when they’re done with him. Tristan was stuck with her through the playoffs but is seemingly trying to extricate himself while attempting to salvage his image.
I also have no sympathy for him. Everyone knows what the Kardashian ladies are like. He chose to leave his pregnant girlfriend for Khloe, and this is the consequence – that everyone could see coming from a mile away. He’s doomed to years of “Khloe” jeers from the stands when he plays.
And to answer your question: because it’s easy, and because it means him not confronting things about himself.
One word: COWARDICE.
Yup.
I was going to say exactly what Bumblebee said – he didn’t want to look like the bad guy and if he got you to leave he could play the victim. He did not want to feel guilty about what he was doing. If you left and was mad at him it could lessen his guilt about lying and cheating. Sounds like a narcissist.
basically.
he screws other chicks and hooks up with them in PUBLIC, seems to come and go as he pleases and khloe just lets him walk all over her.
i don’t call that a relationship just because they made a baby
i believe he is trying his hardest to get her to dump him (besides the chronic cheating when they are seen in public he is ignoring her at dinner, staring at his phone not speaking to her when he IS spending time with her). I think he thinks he will be not get as much negative press if she is the one who leaves him so he is pushing it hard. But she is so pathetic she will never let go. This goes so far beyond trying to work things out for the sake of their 3 month old “family.”
I just assumed that PMK made some kind of deal with him so that he sticks around for a storyline and a huge payout.
Having trouble believing he’s worried that dumping her would be bad for his image, or that he’s too cowardly. Doesn’t quite add up to me.
I am sure the situation is being manipulated so that it is Khloe that gets to do the breaking up, at just the right moment for ratings.
Truth! I have been in a similar situation. I was so angry that this dude basically wasted two years of my life when I could have been meeting/dating other people and moving on. I don’t know if it was wimpiness and emotional immaturity, or a sinister desire to keep me under his control (he was controlling) and to keep me from meeting someone else and moving on. All of the above? Maybe I was some kind of fallback? I wasn’t raised to stand up to men, so I’ve really struggled to learn how.
This happened to me last year with my ex (a cocaine addict in recovery who lied to me about that!) and he brought me so much pain, despair and humiliation. I ended things because I had to save myself (he was also very toxic to be with) and when I broke up with him and told him that if I had to choose between being with him or alone, I chose alone, and that he had strung me along when he clearly did not want to be with me anymore, he turned bright red and had to own up to it. So I left him alone, cut him out of my life and told him “bless your heart” now eff off my life.
Next time this happens I will walk away earlier just to keep sane.
If I were Khloe , I would try to make it work too. For the sake of my daughter , I would not give up until I tried everything to save my family.
As a child of a failed marriage, it’s worse to have them around a toxic relationship that’s going nowhere. Just because you have a child with someone doesn’t mean you have to be in a relationship with that person and in this situation they’re definitely better off as co-parents than significant others.
You clearly don’t have a daughter. If she should do anything “for her daughter’s sake” it would be LEAVING him, and not raising another girl who lets a man treat her like shit.
1000 percent! Why show your daughter how to NOT have dignity and self respect.
If this happens to True one day, would Khloe advise her to stay where she’s not really loved and wanted?
Having a child is not a reason to stay in a dead relationship.
I would never want my parents to be miserable together, but stay together just for me. That would really make me feel guilty. Khloe and Tristan aren’t a happy couple, and the world is watching as he cheats and embarrasses Khloe, and she desperately clings on. I’d rather my parents split up and each find someone else to be happy with if they were in a situation like this
Meanwhile, his baby son is at home with Jordan who he dumped for Khloe. Once training starts, he will be out of LA again for the entire winter. This is a scenario Khloe is well accustomed to with her affinity towards ballers.
Sally, please read Minneader’s comment to you. It is SO true. This is no example for any child.
@sally if she really cared about being a good mother to her child (spoiler alert: none of these narcissistic klowns do) then she would leave him, stop inflating her body parts, leave social media, get a real job or a hobby, and invest some of her unearned millions into getting an education or doing some good in the world.
She would never, though.
If I had their money I would go into some field that interested me, something where I didn’t have to worry about how much it paid. The sky would be the limit. Maybe some kind of environmental advocacy, you could travel around the world. Or art patronage. Or digging for fossils in exotic places. I would see absolutely every country in the world. What do these putzes do? Hang around in each other’s houses, shop, and schedule their next plastic surgery.
Pretty sure being a good parent is not about physical appearance choices or whether or not one uses social media (unless someone is using social media for MAGA purposes or something like that). I agree with the first part though.
My parents were married 51 miserable years. My siblings and I would have been much happier if they had divorced, no question.
At this point Khloe is really pathetic. When someone is mentally checked out, you can feel that. Her desperation to stay with him when he’s made it ABUNDTLY clear that he wants out is the epitome of desperate.
Heck, he probably released this story his damn self to force her hand. He clearly has no love for her, and doesn’t actually have a moral compass. He also knows that he can have a relationship with his children despite not being with their mothers. LET. GO KHOLE!!
Man, she looks so different in candids, without all the crazy filters and photoshopping.
I honestly don’t understand the point of having an IG full of pictures that don’t actually look anything like you. These people are so bizarre.
RE: Tristan. This is probably a KUWTK storyline. Or maybe it’s true. Or maybe a bit of both. I don’t honestly give two f*cks either way.
startlingly different.
the IG pics make it look like Khloe has a younger, more petite sister.
“I honestly don’t understand the point of having an IG full of pictures that don’t actually look anything like you.”
NOR DO I. baffling.
Agree it’s a storyline. Otherwise, go play summer ball or go run a camp or get your ass back to Cleveland and have your legal team work out support and visitation. And wrap it next time unless you want to be the next Sean Kemp. We will not be gentle when he steps on the parquet. There were some vicious chants about Khloé back when she was with Lamar Odom.
Tristan plays for the Cavs, but I don’t want to claim him. He is a native of Toronto, and I think would excel with Raptors. Just saying…..
My guess is that’s a huge reason why he is still with her – it’s a huge distraction on-court. We all know that fans are merciless when it comes to the Khloe taunts, and the team and sponsors couldn’t have been happy about the negative press. Now that it’s the off-season, he’s making moves to extricate himself, but I bet he underestimated how hard Khloe is going to cling.
Gosh I feel so bad for him @@@@
Kim and Khloe always tie clothes around their waists to hide their asses. Why? Didn’t they want big butts?
They can’t facetune and Photoshop when they’re out in public getting pap’d.
Because they got WAY bigger when they gained weight. Lipo does weird things to you – when you remove fat cells but then gain weight, it still has to go somewhere, so you gain weight in other parts. Hence, the MASSIVE butts.
Wouldn’t surprise me if this is a Kris story…cue the strong single mother pulling out all stops to save her family while the despicable man won’t even show up for therapy. I don’t believe for a second that they were in therapy, I don’t believe they’ve been a couple since sometime mid pregnancy. He caught such fall out over the cheating thing during the playoffs that he pretty much had to go along with the make it work narrative and now it’s his turn to be excoriated for story lines.
Same way you get him is the same way you lose him! Was he not with his pregnant girl friend when he got with her? Did she think he wouldn’t do her the same way? At least he waited until she had the baby unlike his ex. A tiger doesn’t change his strips. Girl find you some one who wants to be with you!
27 year old professional athlete, with history of cheating and leaving pregnant girlfriends, wants to cheat and leave baby mama. SHOCKING
What kind of grown ass woman chases a man like that?
A very, very stupid and insecure one, something the K-clan excels at producing.
Someone who wants to be with a pro basketball player and doesn’t care about the other stuff.
Players always feel “trapped” amirite?
27 year old man who doesn’t have the ability to wear condoms and break up with his girlfriend.
Pretty pathetic.
Then break up with her. You’re an adult man. Do the emotional labor of one. #nosympathy2018
He’s youngish with millions of dollars, always around beautiful women begging to get with him! Come on Khloe you have no one to kid but yourself. You make women look weak. Shame on you!
It sounds like he has tried to break up with her and she.just.wont.leave. Her response to “I’m leaving you – we are breaking up – it’s over” is to put her fingers in her ears and say, “la la la la la.” I don’t think he’s a prize, but in this situation, I feel some sympathy. How do you leave someone who won’t let go?
He could very easily say “we’re done”, make a VERY PUBLIC announcement so she can’t pretend it’s not happening (lest she look even MORE desperate) and RUN back to Cleveland.
if he starts telling everyone who asks (and puts its out on facebook, IG, twitter…whatever social media he wants to use), and tells TMZ or some other tabloid, she can’t ignore it.
There is such a pattern here with him. Their relationship already “wasn’t working” for him when he had only been with her a few months. Now couples therapy “isn’t working” for him after only a couple of sessions. This guy, this f*$&ing guy! Apparently everything must start off 100% perfect and stay that way forever, without him having to put any effort into it, or else he’s giving up and moving on.
Everything she does is contrived/manufactured. Overly obsessed with her appearance in an unhealthy way. Just because she’s PLAYING house doesn’t make it real. If that isn’t her bio baby, that could make her self esteem even worse.
Everything about her whole family is contrived and manufactured. It’s all about their stupid show. Their pathetic lives keep them in the news and their mother uses the drama for ratings. None of them live in the real world IMO.
My BFF went to couples counseling before she got married, spoiler—it didn’t work and they got divorced. Her ex and TT have something in common, neither think they’re wrong nor have plans to change.
She did the same thing with Lamar, held on beyond the point it became clear the relationship couldn’t be salvaged and Lamar had no interest in reconciling.
She really is terrible at picking good men. And of course she chose to have a baby with a loser. At least she had no kids with Lamar. At this point I’m not sure she really wanted a relationship as much as she wanted a baby. I can’t feel that sorry for her. I feel sorry for her daughter but that’s about it.
I think cuz he knows she never carried the baby, he has the secrets so he can do whatever he likes
Whaaaaat? Did I miss some very juicy gossip?
I agree. I think Khloé didn’t carry the baby and that there was an arrangement. He has the goods on her but she also has the goods on him if he signed onto such a deal.
That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
I prefer this tinfoil to the more typical, ‘woman gets cheated on by emotional incompetent father to be, then gets blamed for not leaving by other people’s timeline’.
Secret surrogate baby with NDAs and blackmail is a way more interesting take.
Now People is reporting that khloe is saying that Tristan doesn’t understand the consequences of his cheating. Of course he doesn’t because there are none.
I feel like Khloe mostly wants to save face here, the relationship – meh. He’s not interested in monogamy, period. What was she thinking?
Jeez, trapped HOW exactly? He’s not exactly some penniless, friendless, jobless, single-parent waif.
He’s 25 years old..he is a star athlete..he doesn’t want to be tied down..I’m not defending him, he made his own bed. just saying..I’m sure he didn’t totally know he was supposed to be in a life long commitment with her at 25.
Who? Khloé or True?
Khloe is so self absorbed that she can’t even see the forest for the trees. She’s thinking how could he not want me? She needs to think about the example she will set for her daughter.
Read her tweets. She lives in Oz, Over The Rainbow, Wonderland. She talks like a child and speaks of her daughter like she is her doll, instead of baby. This chick has some major issues, and I don’t think Tristan is her biggest problem. Khloe is a wackadoodle, my thought for the day.
Khloe thought the baby would make him stay,her picker is off.
I think they have a total sham relationship. Maybe he boinks her every now and then because she is there when he shows up to spend time with his daughter but I don’t think he loves her at all.
She is delusional and needs therapy.
I get Khloé wanting it to work for her child’s sake. I get that, but damn! She has to realize that this clearly isn’t going to work long term. She knows that deep down but she’s not wanting to let go. Also, I don’t know how this works but since she had the baby in Ohio….does the baby have to stay in Ohio full time since they lived there as a family? Or would it depend on if Tristan wanted the baby living there? If he said “just go to LA I’ll come visit”, then they would go? If they work it out on their own they don’t have to go to family court to get ‘in stone’ arrangements? Sorry, just trying to figure out how weekly cross country visits are going to work?! Assuming he cares for visits. What a mess!!! That poor child. The thought that in a few short years she could google alllll this drama is terrifying.
As my mom told teenage me…..”you can’t make someone want to be with you. Say okay and move on. Why be with someone who doesn’t want to be with you? There are too many people out there for that.” Khloé, I hope you are reading this.
I watched the show years ago and they did read everything about themselves. Imagine the weaker ones (Khloe at the top of the list) still do. I think maybe old Tristan wants some tv time. He had no problem leaving a gorgeous woman pregnant. His former gf is successful and beautiful. She never made a fool of herself in public ala Khloe Simpson Kardashian. JK, she does look like him side by side….I know, the hairdresser. Anyway, no love here, a desperate woman and a deceitful man and an unusual looking baby, unique maybe. Looks exactly like daddio.
DEFINITELY the hairdresser!
Well, DUH Tristan!!!! I would assume a bad relationship would follow dating any of the Klan …
If she didn’t drop him after the affairs, she won’t now.
Strong women don’t put up with a serial cheater.
Of course, everything looks good when they’re in public, it’s written in the script.
If he wants to save his career, he needs to get out of this relationship. Otherwise, he’ll be spending his time looking over his shoulder wondering who’s spying on him.
I never looked closely at that picture of her in the doorway. The contouring on her nose is ridiculous.
Look at her ears. That’s some weirdness going on with something. Her mouth looks strange, too. I think it’s Photoshop. Or it could be all the procedures she’s had. Who knows, but she looks so odd, so plastic.
I haven’t read the other comments but no one, ever, should be kept “on a leash” in a relationship or a marriage. That’s ridiculous, controlling and very insecure. If someone has to be kept “on a leash,” leave. And walk 50 feet in any direction and you might find someone trustworthy. Please, that’s nuts.
It will be hard to get a real relationship with anybody with all the cameras and the plot lines that pull in the boyfriends du jour. Not everybody is happy living in a fish bowl, even if they thought it would be fun at first. Real stuff won’t happen in front of the cameras.
Reality shows tend to be deadly to relationships, but especially the Kardashian ones it seems.
This is such a waste of time. He never wanted this baby with her and certainly doesn’t want to be locked in a “relationship” with her. Just end it. He will cheat again, period.
Have I missed something here? Did someone move the door and he can’t find it?
Why doesn’t he leave? Is he supposed to stay until Episode X in the fake TV show in order to get a paycheck? Thank you, Lord, for giving me a real life.
Wow-none of us saw this coming. Eye roll.
Ugh men who do this make me so sick. Half the time they’re gaslighting the woman into thinking they’re crazy until they have no connection to their intuition left at all, making them vulnerable to repeat this abuse in the future. And the other half of the time they leave the woman agonizing over if/when/where he’s cheating. How do they find the time to be such scum!
Some boys are weak AF! That’s why you date and marry a MAN. A weak mofo is too petrified to break it off. He’ll make plans and then bail at the last minute (after you’ve spent $75 on a brazilian wax) and do other inconsiderate sh*t. A man tells you what he wants. He’s not afraid to commit. He wants to make plans. All I can tell you singles out there is this…you know in your gut. Sometime you’ll try and ignore it, but when you look back, you’ll see the flaming red flags you should’ve seen at the time. You’ll grow and learn and get stronger with all your experiences. My mom always said “if he doesn’t appreciate what he has, he didn’t deserve you”. Don’t be a “Khloe” and wait, keep trying and attempt to prove how great you are. What you chase eludes you.
Let’s add a positive cliche to this sad situation…There is somebody for everyone.