After the diagnosis comes a series of questions that leave no peace:
•What if I had tried earlier?
•What if I had made different decisions?
•What if I were more courageous?
•What if I were less afraid?
Guilt can be merciless.
We blame ourselves for choices that seemed reasonable at the time, for lives we built to the best of our ability.
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A society that doesn’t teach us how to deal with such a loss
People talk about death.
People talk about divorce.
People talk about illnesses.
But childlessness—especially unwanted childlessness—is often a taboo subject.
A childless woman is still judged:
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