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When couples with respiratory issues struggle to discuss having children

My partner and I both have asthma and we're trying to decide whether to have kids, but we keep getting stuck on whether we'd be selfish to pass this on or live somewhere with poor air quality, and we can't seem to have the conversation without one of us shutting down.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Some decisions require walking through fears so deep that even loving partners can't easily accompany each other to those places.

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