How to Keep Your Marriage Strong During Fertility Treatments?

Fertility treatments may be harder on a marriage than money problems! These marriage tips for couples coping with infertility will help you and your spouse strengthen your relationship.

Infertility and relationships don’t always mesh well,in fact, infertility can take over a woman or man’s life, emotions, and thoughts. Her inability to conceive a baby –or his inability to get her pregnant – can affect how they feel about themselves, their lives, and their marriage.

Here are the ways by which you can keep your relation strong during fertility treatments:

1. Communication

When there is no communication with one another, one partner may be assuming what the other partner is thinking and feeling. Assumptions are not the same as actually taking time to communicate what is being experienced and felt. How can one know what the other is going through if there is no communication?

2. Honesty

I know it can be cliche, but honesty is the best policy. Be completely honest about the current situation. Be honest with yourself and your partner. Let your partner know exactly how you are feeling and what you are going through. Your partner needs to hear the truth to be able to support you the best way they know how. Don’t forget the street runs both ways, so encourage your partner to be honest with you, without being judgemental of what they have to say.

3. Team

Don’t forget you are a team, a team that loves one another. . Touch simply means give a hug, hold each other, hold hands, give a massage. Allow yourself to receive these kinds of touch if they are offered or asked of you by your partner.

4. Keep Other Dreams Alive

Forget old dreams, hobbies and interests that have been set aside while trying to get pregnant. Set new goals, come up with new interests and make plans to go do them. The goal is to stay busy and not just focus on trying to get pregnant. Trying to conceive is but one aspect of your life and doesn’t make up all of who you are. Both partners need to get out and do things that interest them. It is easy to get caught up with the situation at hand, staying busy helps to keep the mind focused on other important parts of life. Do something that makes you happy every single day – you deserve it.

5. Take your negativity out

This means let go of all the negative thoughts and feelings surrounding the situation, your body, your partner and life in general. Negativity breeds negativity and resentment can drag a person down. Pent up negative thoughts and feelings may fester and make the situation worse! Resentment can be a ticking time bomb.