NPR reports on making a marriage work when only one spouse believes in God:
“I would really like it if he could feel God’s love the way I do. And it’s one of those very few places where I feel like I can say, ‘I hear you, I understand what you’re saying, I love you and I think that there may be more to it,’ ” Peyer says.
They do find ways to come together. Bixby even goes along to church every now and then.
“I hear it a lot from Maria, ‘You’re very spiritual in this way,’ and ‘You’re very spiritual in that way.’ And a couple days ago, I kind of joked with her, ‘That is a very secular humanist attitude, and that shows a lot of growth, a lot of not faith,’ ” Bixby says.
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