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When couples navigate fertility struggles with different coping styles

My partner and I have been trying to have a baby for two years and every month that passes, we handle the disappointment so differently that it's creating distance between us. They want to keep talking about it and I want to protect myself by talking about it less, and neither of us knows how to bridge that gap.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Grief shared unequally can become grief that separates, even when the loss belongs to both hearts.

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