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When couples question their worldview while parenting

My husband and I are both academics and we've spent twenty years building our identities around being rational, evidence-based people, but our teenage daughter's depression has us both secretly wondering if there's something we're missing about meaning and transcendence. Neither of us knows how to admit we might be wrong about everything we've taught her.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Partners face the disorienting possibility that their shared intellectual framework may be inadequate for the crises their family faces.

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