My wife and I are trying to conceive and it's been eighteen months of failed attempts and we've noticed that we grieve differently and comfort each other differently and sometimes my way of coping feels like rejection to her and her way feels like pressure to me. We love each other but we're starting to feel alone in this together.
More people experience this than they realize.
Grief shared between partners can become either deeper intimacy or deeper isolation, depending on whether differences in processing are met with curiosity or judgment.
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