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When couples experience spiritual loss at different paces

My partner and I both lost our faith around the same time but we're grieving it completely differently and it's creating distance between us when we most need each other. They want to move on quickly while I'm still trying to make sense of what we've lost.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The death of shared belief can leave two people standing in the same emptiness but finding no comfort in each other's presence.

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