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When couples face family pressure about having children

My wife and I have been trying to have kids for three years, and now my mother-in-law keeps asking when we're going to 'give her grandchildren' and making comments about my wife's career, and we're both angry but taking it out on each other instead of dealing with her together.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

External expectations about their most intimate choices are driving a wedge between them, when the pressure should be bringing them closer.

Ideas that help explain it
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