Fertility treatment often brings significant stress, affecting relationships. It's crucial to navigate these relationships carefully to preserve them for the future. Many friends and family may not understand the difficulties faced during this process. It's beneficial to shift how one interacts with others to help manage these relationships effectively. Leaning on supportive communities is essential, but so is maintaining connections with loved ones. Long-term perspectives and successful social interactions can ease the emotional burden of treatment.
If you are undergoing fertility treatment, you may be strong and capable, but you don't need to go through it alone. Social media and volunteer organizations have made it possible for fertility patients to support each other, and that is great, but it is not the end of the story.
First, while undergoing fertility treatment, it is reasonable to feel stressed. The stressors of the fertility journey can, as one patient said to me, 'take the stuffing out of you.' But it does not need to define you, and it does not need to ruin your relationships.
People need people. It may sound corny, but it's true. You may feel you need to focus on treatment, but it's also important to consider what your life will look like after you complete your journey.
When your family is built and the stress is all over (and it will end), you might want to reunite with the people you cut off, and mend the relationships that may be fractured.
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