My wife and I have been doing IVF for eighteen months and we've developed completely different coping styles - she researches everything obsessively and I've started avoiding all fertility-related conversations. We're both exhausted but we're exhausted in opposite directions and it's making us feel like strangers.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people are protecting themselves from the same pain in ways that inadvertently protect them from each other.
“Where Are You with The grief of infertility?”
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