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When fertility struggles change intimacy in marriage

My husband and I have been trying to get pregnant for three years and the process has made us both so focused on conception that we've stopped having sex that isn't about making a baby, and now we're grieving not just the babies we haven't had but also the intimacy we used to share.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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You are mourning multiple losses simultaneously while still holding hope, and the very trying has transformed the connection you're trying to create life from.

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