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Scenario

When couples grieve infertility differently while still trying to conceive

My partner and I have been trying to conceive for three years and we've started to grieve differently — they want to keep trying every possible intervention while I'm beginning to imagine a life without biological children and neither of us knows how to honor both ways of processing this loss.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Partners are experiencing different timelines and methods of grief while navigating the liminal space between hope and acceptance in fertility struggles.

Your guide for this
Juana
Juana works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Parental identity — becoming and losing?”

Peri

Peri can explain why this happens, help you decide if this is the right situation for you, and point toward the right journey or coach.

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