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When couples grieve infertility on different timelines

My partner and I are trying to conceive and it's been two years of negative tests, failed treatments, and we've started grieving on completely different timelines. I'm ready to explore other paths but they're still holding onto hope for a biological child and we can't find each other in this loss.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Sometimes love means holding space for someone else's hope when your own has shifted, and neither timeline is wrong.

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