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When couples cope with loss through different spiritual practices

My wife and I started attending different services after a major loss because we're grieving so differently and now we barely talk about faith at all and I'm worried we're becoming strangers in the most important part of our lives.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Grief has sent you seeking comfort in opposite directions, and the very thing that might heal you individually is creating a chasm between you as partners.

Ideas that help explain it
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“Where Are You with Ancestors in faith — the continuing relationship?”

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