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How couples navigate infertility while maintaining friendships

My wife and I have been trying to get pregnant for three years and all our friends are having babies and we've started avoiding social events because it's too hard. We're becoming isolated from people we love and we don't know how to stay connected without constantly explaining where we are with everything.

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Two people are protecting themselves from pain in ways that are creating different pain.

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