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When family expectations conflict with personal beliefs

I pretend to be religious for my wife's family and take my kids to church every Sunday, but I don't believe any of it and feel like I'm lying to everyone including my children.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Living inauthentically to maintain family harmony creates internal dissonance and models deception to our children.

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