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When well-meaning advice dismisses biological reality

I am forty-two and everyone keeps telling me to just relax and it will happen but my body is aging and I can feel time running out and their advice feels like cruelty.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Others' attempts to comfort us can become a form of erasure when they refuse to acknowledge our actual circumstances.

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