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The Craziest Thing I Did While Married

Colleen Sheehy Orme
3 min readNov 4, 2019

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And maybe you should too

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Did I say craziest? I hope I didn’t get your hopes up. I wasn’t a wild teenager nor a wild wife. At least I’m sticking to that story.

But I did do something crazy in my marriage.

Something no one ever does!

I went to marriage counseling for ‘one.’

You know, like ‘party of one’ or ‘table for one.’

I know! It sounds wild, but I did it!

A complete oxymoron.

To be fair, it didn’t start off that way. My husband and I initially went for about eight months together.

After my husband refused to keep going, I had a choice to make.

And more importantly, I had my children to consider.

I wasn’t sure if my marriage would survive but either way, I am a parent.

I needed to learn both parts of this complicated marital equation.

I had to understand what I was bringing to the table and what my husband was bringing to the table. Even if he had stood me up.

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Colleen Sheehy Orme
Colleen Sheehy Orme

Written by Colleen Sheehy Orme

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

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