"When you leave, the community doesn't support you and you don't have the finances you need for housing," Barnett said.
"They were nice to Jood. They would even invite us, to cook us our Shabbos meal...But once they saw us as a couple, that was it," Langsam said.
In haredi communities, the norm is for people to live with their parents until marriage...Those who leave are often cut off from that social safety net..." said Moskowitz.
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