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When fertility struggles take over a couple's intimacy

My partner and I have been trying to get pregnant for eighteen months and the process has become so clinical and scheduled that we've lost any joy or spontaneity in our physical relationship, but we're both afraid that taking a break means giving up on the baby we want.

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