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When couples lose their faith at the same time but cope differently

My spouse and I both lost our faith around the same time but we've been handling it completely differently — they want to deconstruct everything we believed while I just want to quietly build something new — and we're starting to feel like strangers to each other in this.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people are discovering that shared crisis doesn't automatically create shared understanding, and their different processing styles are creating distance rather than intimacy.

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