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.
Partners are experiencing different timelines and methods of grief while navigating the liminal space between hope and acceptance in fertility struggles.
“Where Are You with Parental identity — becoming and losing?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.