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Can a woman take the communion by herself alone if her husband is not ready to take it? Can she take it individually and still live with her husband?

If a man and woman are married in the Church, and the woman is more devoted than the husband, she may partake of Holy Communion without him. If a man and woman who are unbelievers and not married in the Church, but she later becomes faithful and lives and practices her Orthodox Christian faith accordingly, she may partake of Holy Communion without her husband, but can still continue to live with him as husband and wife, unless there are some serious conflicts that would prevent them from continuing in the marriage. Aspects of these scenarios are more common among adult converts.