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When couples grieve infertility in isolation from each other

My wife and I have been trying to get pregnant for two years and the whole thing has become this awful monthly cycle of hope and disappointment that we go through completely separately, like we're protecting each other from our own grief but also keeping each other out.

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You're both drowning in the same sorrow but have learned to suffer alone to protect the other's hope.

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