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When couples face mismatched desires about having children

My partner and I have been talking about having kids for months but we keep dancing around the fact that they want them more than I do. Neither of us wants to be the one to say this might be a dealbreaker.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Some differences in partnership cannot be compromised away, only faced with the courage to name what love might require of both people.

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