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When fertility struggles change intimacy in relationships

My partner and I have been trying to conceive for eighteen months and somewhere along the way sex became a project and intimacy became a spreadsheet and we don't know how to find our way back to each other. We're both grieving something that hasn't even been lost yet.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The desire to create life together has paradoxically created distance from the life they already share.

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