Faith based guilt is a strong thing, especially in us Catholics. My MIL had her oldest child born severely impaired (blind, probably deaf, and very neurologically damaged) from Toxoplasmosis. The baby died at 6 months old in a "home" from failure to thrive. My MIL has repeatedly said it was punishment for her having a lesbian relationship prior to meeting her husband. I've said if it was God's punishment, maybe it had more to do with the fact your husband was married to someone else when you met him, with other children he effectively abandoned, and he didn't divorce her and marry you until you had 4 kids and 12 years invested. Maybe HE was being punished.
The reality is, you ate raw chop meat and dug in dirt where feral cats took dumps and contracted an illness. End of story.
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