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Scenario

How couples navigate infertility with different coping styles

My wife and I are trying to conceive and it's been two years of treatments and disappointments, and we've developed completely different coping mechanisms - she wants to talk about it constantly and research everything, I want to pretend it's not consuming our lives - and now we feel more like roommates managing a medical situation than partners supporting each other.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Shared suffering does not automatically create intimacy; it requires the courage to stay curious about your partner's way of surviving the same pain.

Your guide for this
Patan
Patan works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with EMDR and trauma processing?”

Peri

Peri can explain why this happens, help you decide if this is the right situation for you, and point toward the right journey or coach.

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