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How fertility struggles can isolate couples from each other

My husband and I have been trying to get pregnant for three years and all the appointments and treatments and hope and disappointment have turned us into roommates who schedule sex and cry separately. We used to comfort each other but now we don't know how to be sad together without making it worse.

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Shared grief can become individual suffering when we lose the language for holding sorrow together.

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