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When reproductive decisions create regret and resentment in relationships

My partner had a vasectomy reversal because I wanted children, but it's been two years with no pregnancy and now they're saying maybe we should accept being childfree, and I feel like I pushed them into this whole painful process for nothing and we don't know how to talk about what we've both sacrificed.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Medical interventions for fertility can become sources of guilt and mismatched expectations that partners struggle to address directly.

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