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When personal catastrophe feels like divine punishment

My husband left me after twenty years and took our kids and I feel like God is punishing me but I do not know what I did wrong.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Life-shattering events can be interpreted through a framework of cosmic justice that intensifies self-blame.

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