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How couples navigate fertility struggles with different coping styles

My wife and I are trying to conceive and it's been two years of monthly disappointments that we process completely differently - she wants to talk through every emotion and I shut down. Now even our good days feel fragile because we both know another cycle is coming.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

When partners face the same loss repeatedly but process grief in opposing ways, intimacy becomes another casualty.

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