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When couples disagree about how strictly to follow traditional shraddha rituals

My husband wants to perform all thirteen days of shraddha for his mother exactly as his family did generations ago, but I think some adaptations make sense for our life here, and we're stuck between honoring tradition and being practical about what we can actually sustain.

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