Jen Hatmaker

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm a little late posting this, but was anyone else put off by the way Tyler and his "team" handled people's reaction to his post about the queen. He posts a gushing tribute to the queen which is arguably a controversial topic amongst marginalized communities. He then posts that anyone who disagrees should read and move on for the sake of his mental health? How do you position yourself as curious and interested in others' stories and take that stance? Very weird to me.

anything that doesn't feel like encouragement, is negative.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Her post from today is so annoying. Tyler watched her team, bought the food she likes and went to brunch? And that is allowing her body to feel safe and loved? Isn’t that just common courtesy and/or new relationship standards? I vividly remember posts from her about Brandon doing nice and selfless stuff. Is she just overwhelmed with nice gestures? And how? Her whole life is people falling over themselves to do nice stuff for her.

And as a middle aged woman isn’t the bar higher? My husband also does stuff I like even when he doesn’t like it and it’s not post worthy…it’s being kind and in a relationship.

Is she just inventing stuff to post? So weird.

Yes that whole post was weird. It was like she is trying to prove to the world that he loves her. Plus it’s very on brand with everything always being about Jen and people bending over backwards to please her. She never posts about what she does for Tyler or others. I kept trying to give her the benefit of doubt even though people here kept saying how self-centered she is. But I can’t anymore. Y’all are so right.

She's trying to convince everyone and herself that the relationship is real. "were not that dumb lady"

[Anonymous]

That post made me feel sorry for her. Clearly this relationship is a rebound with no true potential. The dissolution of a 26 year marriage can’t be easy when the other person has moved on. I would be grasping at straws too, if not for my followers benefit, then certainly to fool myself into thinking I’d moved on to something better. Dating a forty something bachelor is a nice distraction, but it’s not serious relationship material.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That post made me feel sorry for her. Clearly this relationship is a rebound with no true potential. The dissolution of a 26 year marriage can’t be easy when the other person has moved on. I would be grasping at straws too, for my followers benefit, then certainly to fool myself into thinking I’d moved on to something better. Dating a forty something bachelor is a nice distraction, but it’s not serious relationship material.

This. Yeah, for all of the I am an independent woman now who can do my taxes and finances and single parenting and normal things I never knew how to do before , she STILL needs some man to validate she’s the cutest most adorable thing ever.

But she’s also getting as much money mileage as she can out of the “relationship,”

[Anonymous]

Someone made a comment here or on Reddit that when she did the whole proclamation thing on Glennons podcast about how she’ll never let herself get betrayed again - That yea it sounds really delusional to say that, but it’s actually true. Because she will be choosing people she’s not really in love with so she won’t get that hurt again.

(I remember that comment because it made me self reflect on my life lol)

[Anonymous]

I read an excerpt from Tyler's memoir, and he and Jen have very similar voices in their writing...they drill down on details and dialogue is snappy, and they are pretty funny. But now they got all serious and appointed themselves as overlords of all correct moves and now they are sadly tiresome. They will stay together far longer than is necessary.

Tyler talks about how his color and NOT his size make people, esp white folks, very jumpy and uncomfortable. I want to say, look, you are an imposing 6'2" not skinny, locs-waving big imposing presence. Not everything or every slight is centered on your race.

[Anonymous]

she’ll never let herself get betrayed again

Good luck with that. No one really knows if their significant other is 100% faithful.

She better find her way to the nunnery.

[Anonymous]

#Remyisfree

[Anonymous]

Okay I had an experience today and I don't know who to share it with so I'm going to post it in this group, lol. I was in this really trashy junky discount store, the kind of store where every aisle is a jumbled mess and they sell things that don't sell in other stores. It's the Ollie's Discount Store in Montgomery AL, if that matters. Anyway I was going down the inspirational aisle looking to see if there were any good theology books, and you guys I kid you not - every single Jen Hatmaker book, even her most recent one, was sitting there in large piles!! For 1.99 and 2.99. It almost made me feel sorry for her. How embarrassing. I wonder if her last book even made enough money to break even, if they're trying to sell a big ol mountain of them for 1.99!!?

[Anonymous]

Her last three books have been huge duds.

[Anonymous]

By dud, do you mean they didn’t sell? How do you get that information? I’ve always wondered.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Her last three books have been huge duds.

Not sure what constitutes a “dud”. But I found this. Doesn’t seem that these numbers are all that great but the writer of this article seems pretty upbeat about the overall numbers.
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/religion/article/83312-new-jen-hatmaker-book-tops-17k-sales-in-first-week.html

[Anonymous]

From that article:

"Hatmaker’s past books, For the Love (2015) and Of Mess and Moxie (2017), have solder over 300,000 hardcover copies combined to date, according to BookScan."

Fast Free, etc., sold about 25K in it's first week then tumbled like a stone the weeks after. It probably didn't sell even a quarter of what For the Love or 7 sold. Simple and Free did even worse.

[Anonymous]

Correction. Fast Free world 26K in it's first two weeks, not 25K in one week.

[Anonymous]

I truly can't understand why anyone cares who these people are, or what they do or say. Is it just because you like watching a train wreck? I truly don't get the appeal.