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How to create meaningful rituals without shared beliefs

My partner wants us to have a wedding ceremony that honors both our families' traditions but neither of us believes in any of it and I don't know how to make it feel real.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Secular life requires inventing forms for marking significance that religion once provided automatically.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Humanism and secular meaning?”

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