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How to honor a loved one's faith when you don't share it

My wife is dying and she keeps talking about how we'll be together again someday but I don't believe that and I can't decide if I should pretend or tell her the truth.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Love sometimes requires holding space for beliefs that comfort others even when they offer no comfort to yourself.

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