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When couples handle fertility struggles with different coping strategies

My husband and I are trying to conceive and it's been eighteen months of hope and disappointment, but we handle the monthly letdowns completely differently — he wants to take breaks from trying while I want to keep going — and we've stopped being able to comfort each other through this.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people facing the same loss are finding that their ways of protecting themselves are creating distance from the very person who understands their pain most deeply.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Post-traumatic growth — what can grow in the soil of loss?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.