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How couples navigate infertility and different grieving styles

My husband and I are trying to get pregnant and it's been eighteen months of disappointment and we've stopped talking about it even though it's all we think about. We're grieving differently and I don't know how to reach across that gap anymore.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The monthly cycle of hope and loss is creating parallel loneliness where there should be shared sorrow.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Buddhist grief — impermanence as practice?”

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