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Thank you!!
Thanks for all of your support last week ladies. DH and I had a long talk and it really opened my eyes.
He was really remorseful and admitted that he has a sort of bodyimage issue, kind of like anorexia, where he never feels muscular enough. Apparently he saw a therapist about it a few years before we met and things were under control until now. Getting the Azoospermia diagnosis really made him feel like he was "less of a man" and so he went back to the bodybuilding as a way of being in control/improving his self esteem.
Clearly I really underestimated how difficult the Dx was on him and I think that it was also hard for him to share those feelings because he felt that he needed to "be strong".
So he's going back to therapy and we're continuing with the surrogate identification process, but we're going to move at whatever pace he's most comfortable with regards to donor gametes.
IF sucks, but I do feel like it provides a chance to become extremely emotionally and physically intimate with your partner that you might not have otherwise had.
He was really remorseful and admitted that he has a sort of bodyimage issue, kind of like anorexia, where he never feels muscular enough. Apparently he saw a therapist about it a few years before we met and things were under control until now. Getting the Azoospermia diagnosis really made him feel like he was "less of a man" and so he went back to the bodybuilding as a way of being in control/improving his self esteem.
Clearly I really underestimated how difficult the Dx was on him and I think that it was also hard for him to share those feelings because he felt that he needed to "be strong".
So he's going back to therapy and we're continuing with the surrogate identification process, but we're going to move at whatever pace he's most comfortable with regards to donor gametes.
IF sucks, but I do feel like it provides a chance to become extremely emotionally and physically intimate with your partner that you might not have otherwise had.
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