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When couples navigate different spiritual practices and traditions

My partner and I both have strong spiritual practices but from completely different traditions and we keep trying to find ways to honor both without compromising either, but honestly we're starting to realize we don't even know what compromise would look like here. We've been together three years and this feels like something we should have figured out by now but instead it just keeps getting more complicated as we get more serious.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people are discovering that their deepest practices may be fundamentally incompatible, and they're afraid that choosing one path forward means one person loses themselves.

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“Where Are You with Discipline across traditions?”

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