I Lost Everything I Owned

But this is what made me cry like a baby

Colleen Sheehy Orme
ILLUMINATION
Published in
5 min readAug 12, 2022

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I’m walking my dogs this morning when tears fill my eyes. It’s been a month. I shouldn’t feel this sadness. I tell myself I’m being silly. I lost my home in a divorce. I lost 4,500 square feet of belongings. I lost a beach house and a rental property. I lost my life savings and retirement.

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Colleen Sheehy Orme
ILLUMINATION

National Relationship Columnist, Journalist & Former Business Columnist. I cover love, life, & relationships— #WomanResurrected colleen.sheehy.orme@gmail.com