Love and Fertility: Walking Together
- Dr. Juan Arturo Morales Aguirre
- Feb 13
- 2 min read
There is a kind of love people rarely talk about.
It’s not the love in pregnancy announcements or perfect photos. It’s the love that waits. The love that carries medical appointments, uncertain results, and months that feel longer than they should.
Trying to conceive changes more than the body. It changes the rhythm of a relationship.
And most couples are never warned about that.
Love under pressure
When pregnancy doesn’t happen quickly, difficult questions appear:
What if it never works? What if one of us is the reason? How long can we keep going?
These questions may not always be spoken, but they exist — and they carry weight.
Infertility doesn’t erase love. It stretches it between hope and fear.
The invisible grief
Each month without pregnancy can feel like a private loss. A grief that has no ceremony.
Many couples try to protect each other by hiding sadness. But silence creates distance.
Sharing pain does not double it. It divides it.
When partners say “this hurts,” love becomes refuge instead of performance.
Loving while exhausted
There are days when the journey feels unbearable. Days when one wants to stop and the other keeps pushing.
This is not failure.
This is humanity.
Couples don’t move emotionally at the same pace and they don’t need to. Strength lies in walking together even when feelings differ.
Remembering the relationship before treatment
Before the tests and calendars, there was a couple.
Nurturing that relationship matters: go out without fertility talk laugh at small things have intimacy without goals remember why you chose each other.
Pregnancy is a project. The relationship is home.
The love that endures
Couples facing infertility build invisible strength. They learn patience, communication, and shared resilience.
Love is not always light. Sometimes love is endurance.
And enduring together is one of its deepest forms.
A message for anyone waiting
If you are on this path:
Your relationship is not broken. Your love is not weak.Waiting is not failure.
You are living a story rarely shown, but deeply real.
And love that survives uncertainty does not fade.
It transforms.










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