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In the infancy of my divorce, I wrote about crying in my car while listening to my honeymoon song. Surely, I should have changed the station but I didn’t.  Instead, I sat there in all my emotional glory reliving the joyful beginning and the excruciating end of my relationship. It seemed both necessary and unavoidable at the…

I’m excited to move into my new building, the fresh start and all. Even more excited to leave the ugly ‘Di-drama’ behind me. My sister shares my excitement. “This is SO great,” she says. “Now you can move forward with your life and fly under the radar.” This would be my sister who says I…

When I had my first baby I received all types of advice. There were a plethora of well-intentioned individuals who wanted to warn me of how to best transition into this major life change. A rule follower as always I tried to practice as they continually preached. I could never have guessed these pearls of…

I just met with my divorce attorney. It’s our four-year anniversary. Who knew I would be ending one relationship and beginning another? After all, I never imagined my divorce would last the duration of the Presidency. I believed it to be one and done. A year that is. A few handshakes, phone calls, and meetings.…

I like to joke that I have switched from nightmares to what I call ‘Divorcemares.’ And they have run the gammet from the mortgage company knocking at my door to claim my house to remarrying my soon to be ex-husband. Dreams are complicated AND therefore, ‘Divorcemares’ are SUPER complicated. On a good night, I no longer…

I dabble in made up words, my very own divorce vocabulary.   Thus, I now experience what I refer to as Divorcemare’s.’  The scary type of boogeyman dreams which inhabit the sleeping (or should I say the restless) mind of a divorcee in waiting. Divorce is a breeding ground for things that go bump in the…

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