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When couples handle infertility with different coping strategies

My wife and I have been trying to conceive for three years and we're dealing with it completely differently — she wants to research every option and I just want to take breaks from thinking about it, and now we're not even talking about it anymore which feels worse than the disappointment.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people are experiencing the same loss but their opposing ways of processing it are creating distance rather than connection.

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