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How to navigate family celebrations across belief divides

My daughter wants a church wedding and my son thinks religion is harmful and I'm caught between them trying to plan this celebration that should bring us together but is tearing us apart instead. Every conversation about the ceremony becomes a fight about values and I don't know how to honor both of my children.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Joy becomes battleground when sacred rituals meet secular resistance, and a parent's love must somehow bridge the unbridgeable.

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