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When couples can't align on having children

My partner and I keep having the same conversation about whether to have kids but we're not actually talking about the same thing — I'm talking about timing and they're talking about whether they even want to be a parent at all, and we've been dancing around this for months.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

You're having parallel conversations about fundamentally different questions, and the gap between what each of you needs to resolve is creating a chasm neither wants to acknowledge.

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