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When couples discover fundamental differences about life's purpose

My wife and I are trying to decide whether to have kids and we've realized we each have completely different pictures of what a meaningful life looks like. We're not just deciding about children — we're discovering we've never actually shared our deepest assumptions about what any of this is for.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A practical decision has revealed that two people have been living parallel lives based on unexamined and incompatible visions of meaning.

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