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When couples struggle with infertility and different coping styles

My husband and I have been trying to have a baby for two years and the fertility process is consuming our lives in this way that feels both urgent and completely out of our control. We're both handling the stress totally differently and sometimes I look at him and think we're strangers going through this terrible thing together.

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Wanting something desperately together can paradoxically make you feel more alone than you've ever been.

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