What Not To Say To Someone Struggling With Infertility

This is a subject that's near and dear to me. It took me almost a decade to conceive my son. I had to listen to so many well-meaning people give me excuse after excuse as to why things weren't working out the way that we had hoped. Sometimes, I wanted to cry – not listen to another lecture from someone about how it'll happen in its own time.

Infertility is met with such mixed emotions – anger, hurt, frustration, confusion, and maybe even jealousy. It's definitely hard to handle. You wait and wonder, month after month. You hear stories of other people who conceived after trying for 2 years, 5 years, or even 10 years. And you yearn to be one of them.

It's so hard to accept wanting something so badly and yet not being able to have it. And then there are the people who, for one reason or another, continue to remind you, albeit painfully, that they can and you can't. The people who keep telling you to just relax or quit trying and it'll happen.

One woman wrote a great list of things that you shouldn't tell someone who's struggling to get pregnant. You can read her list on the next page.

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