Dr. Alexandra Stockwell is back. In Part One, she and Dr. Erica tackled physical intimacy on the fertility journey. This conversation goes deeper — into the emotional disconnection that quietly builds when two people are navigating one of the hardest experiences of their lives together, but not quite together enough.

This episode is for the couple who still loves each other and is struggling to find their way back to each other in the middle of all of this.

In this episode:

• Why major stressors, and the fertility journey especially, bring the foundation of a relationship to the surface
• The pain of not feeling seen by the one person who is supposed to get it most
• Why men and women are culturally conditioned to feel different emotions and what that means for how couples navigate this together
• Unfelt emotions as energetic cysts: what happens when we lance them
• A simple exercise for reconnecting with your own emotional landscape, bonus points if TID (three times daily)
• The most consistently problematic thing in committed relationships: when two people think they're having different conversations
• How to name the kind of fertility conversation you want to have before you have it, and why that one shift changes everything
• What to do when you're on completely different pages about treatment: another cycle, donor egg, stopping altogether
• The practice of temporarily parking your own position and trying on your partner's perspective, and why it doesn't mean giving up your ground
• Why curiosity is the opposite of certainty, and how it opens doors that defensiveness keeps shut
• Zooming out to the shared vision: remembering what brought you here together before the fertility journey took over
• Appreciating who your partner is, not just what they do, and why that distinction matters more than you'd think

Find Part One HERE.

Find Dr. Alexandra Stockwell:

• Website: alexandrastockwell.com
• Instagram: @intimacydoctor
• Book: Uncompromising Intimacy
• Podcast: The Intimate Marriage Podcast
• App: Intimate Connection

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Please don’t let infertility have the final word. We are here to take the burden from you so that you can achieve your goal of building your family with confidence and compassion. I’m rooting for you always.

In Gratitude,

Dr. Erica Bove