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When your religious community treats you as dead for leaving

I left my ultra-Orthodox community three years ago and my parents still sit shiva for me like I am dead and I see my siblings at the grocery store and they look right through me.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The price of authentic selfhood can be the complete severing of foundational relationships.

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“Where Are You with Leaving a community?”

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