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When spouses move in opposite spiritual directions about sexuality and intimacy

My husband and I are both questioning our faith but in completely opposite directions - he's becoming more conservative about sexuality and intimacy while I'm feeling called toward something more open and embodied, and we can't even talk about it without one of us feeling like the other is abandoning everything we built together. We're sleeping in the same bed but living in different spiritual worlds and I don't know how to bridge that without betraying myself or losing him.

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Two people are discovering that their evolving relationship with the sacred is pulling them toward incompatible understandings of sexual expression and embodiment.

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“Where Are You with Religion and sexuality?”

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