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How to maintain friendship when spiritual paths diverge

My closest friend and I used to share everything about our spiritual lives but since I started questioning things that used to be bedrock for both of us, there's this careful distance between us and I can feel them protecting their faith from my doubts and I'm protecting my questions from their certainty.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The fear of contamination - doubt threatening faith, certainty threatening questions - creates isolation precisely where connection is most needed.

Ideas that help explain it
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