When faith was the architecture through which you understood yourself — your worth, your purpose, your place in a cosmic story — leaving it is not a simple subtraction but a demolition that requires reconstruction from the foundations up. The loneliness of deconversion is often underestimated by those who have not experienced it: not only the community lost but the self that had its meaning organized by a framework now abandoned. The reconstruction is real work, and it takes longer than the decision.
Juana