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When religious differences create family estrangement

Everyone at work is talking about their Christmas plans with family and I just nod along because explaining why I don't speak to my parents means explaining why I left their religion.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The price of authentic selfhood sometimes includes the devastating loss of belonging to one's original tribe.

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