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When couples avoid difficult conversations about having children

My partner and I keep saying we want to have kids but every time we get close to actually trying we find reasons to wait another year, and I'm starting to realize we might want different things but neither of us wants to be the one to say it out loud.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The gap between stated intentions and actual choices reveals deeper ambivalence that threatens to fester in silence.

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