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When couples stop communicating during fertility struggles

My partner and I have been trying to conceive for two years and we've stopped talking about it even though it's the thing we think about most. We move around each other like we're both made of glass.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Shared hope has transformed into shared silence, each person protecting the other from pain that needs to be held together.

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