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When couples heal from religious trauma at different paces

My husband and I both left the same fundamentalist church five years ago but we're healing at completely different speeds and in different ways. He wants to find a new spiritual community and I can't even hear certain hymns without feeling sick, and we're stuck between his loneliness and my panic.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Two people bound together must navigate the delicate timing of recovery when one person's healing requires what triggers the other's wounds.

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