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When religious trauma recovery takes couples in opposite directions

My partner and I are both recovering from religious trauma but we're healing in completely opposite ways - she wants to find a healthy spiritual community while I never want to set foot in another organized anything. We're both triggered by each other's choices and it's becoming a source of real conflict between us.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two wounds are trying to heal by moving toward and away from the very thing that caused them, creating tension in the space between.

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