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How relationships navigate the end of shared spiritual crisis

My cousin and I used to pray together every week during my cancer treatment but now that I'm in remission we don't know how to relate to each other without the crisis that brought us close. She wants to keep the spiritual intimacy we found and I just want to feel normal again and we're both hurt by what the other needs.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The sacred intimacy born in suffering can become a burden when healing arrives, and gratitude wars with the hunger for ordinary life.

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