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How couples navigate fertility struggles and different grief responses

My husband and I have been trying to get pregnant for eighteen months and every month feels like a small grief, but we're grieving differently and I think we're starting to protect ourselves from each other instead of leaning in together.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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When hope becomes a monthly practice in disappointment, even devoted partners can become strangers to each other's pain.

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