It is believed that 1 in 6 couples suffer from infertility. Mr. Temmie and I are one of them. The best way to describe what infertility feels like is this: you lose part of your heart that you will never get back. In it's place is deep, dark, void that can never be filled. Infertility is, indeed, a very painful struggle. The pain is similar to the grief over losing a loved one, but it is unique because it is a recurring grief. This process happens month after month, year after year. It is like having a deep cut that keeps getting opened right when it starts to heal.
Mr. Temmie and I have faced this challenge for nearly 7 years. Some days it's easy to forget the pain and live in the moment. Then there are the days, like Mother's day, that are an excrutiatingly painful reminder of the one thing missing from our lives.
So for anyone reading (I think there are 3 of you!) take a moment this week to offer up a silent prayer for the millions of couples suffering from infertility. Pray for their continued strength, hope, and most of all peace with the situation they face. It's really easy to lose all of that and faith as well, and of course those are the things you need most to fight the infertility battle!
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