Infertility and distress
Long waiting, procedures and losses that weigh on the individual and on the couple.
How it shows up
Life divides into cycles of hope and disappointment. Intimacy can become scheduled, and the body turns into a project. Often each partner grieves in their own way and each thinks the other doesn’t care.
What we do with it in therapy
We work on keeping the difference in how you grieve from becoming distance, and on what, in this period, keeps the relationship from being only a procedure.
See also
Violence in a relationship
A pattern of behaviour by which one person establishes power and control over another — physically, psychologically, sexually or economically.
Dissociation
Disconnection from experience — the sense that you aren't quite here, that you're watching yourself from outside, or that the world is behind glass.
Forgiveness
The decision to stop demanding payment for the past — but not that the act was acceptable.
