She didn’t hint at it then, but she was already head over heels for Momastery blogger Glennon Doyle. Doyle, no newbie to personal struggles, had a history of fighting bulimia and substance abuse. She’d been through the wringer, you might say.
In her younger years, she battled bulimia. College was a blur of alcohol and drugs. But then, in 2002, she decided to kick the habit. Why? She found out she was pregnant.
She married her now ex-husband when she discovered she was expecting. “I thought it was the right thing to do,” she confessed to Glamour.com.
“I’d never even kissed a girl,” Doyle spilled on MamaMia’s No Filter podcast in May 2020. She had no idea what was coming. “But when Abby walked in the room, it was like my inner voice just screamed. It was like ‘there she is,’ and I just knew.”
Fast forward about a month, and they started corresponding. A month after that, Doyle had a sit-down with Craig. “It’s over. I’m in love,” she declared. Oddly enough, Abby and she had never seen each other outside of that room. They’d spent a mere 10 minutes together before deciding to upheave their entire lives for each other.
Wambach reminisced to the New York Times, “We couldn’t have been a worse fit for each other. Glennon had a husband and three kids and lived in Naples, Fla. I’d been sober for a month, my marriage was falling apart, I’d just left my soccer career of 30 years and I lived in Portland, Ore.”
