Infertility: Find the words to say it and people to listen to
Infertility affects many couples, and one of the great needs of would-be parents, in addition to being able to have a child, is to be able to talk about it. A need to share that often encounters obstacles, because often people who have difficulty having children they cannot talk about it with the people closest to them. What to do then? How to find the words to express expectations, hopes and fears? And to whom should these words be addressed?
Who can you tell your path to?
Sharing online can be an answer. Talking about oneself on digital platforms offers a strange form of intimacy with strangers, who have had the same experiences as us, and are going through the same difficulties. Writing about us, about our desire to have a child, to people we don't know, may seem strange, but in the end it becomes almost natural, a need that is also easy to explain. Anyone who reads or listens to our stories, the path taken to try to have a child, is often a similar one, has done the same path, has the same problems. The person who has had the same experience has more ability to understand without judging. Sometimes it can be easier to share with these people than with your family or friends.
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Why it is important to tell about oneself
Difficulties in conceiving lead men and women to blame themselves, to feel judged even if they are not. Infertile people, or those who fear they are, are convinced that they are less, that they lack something. But it is important to give voice to these thoughts and fears, as well as to become able to tell what you are going through. The people who are going through what we are going through are there too, just find the courage and the will to talk about it. Every story counts, because anyone could find themselves and recognize themselves in your story, and share theirs in turn. This is how a small or large community is born that dialogues, that knows how to share pain but also hopes, that knows how to rejoice for itself or for others, when things go well, or to support and find support in turn, when the desire being a parent doesn't come true.
How to tell, and where?
Is there a place, a digital platform, an online place, where it is possible to have all this? Yes, there is: the ParoleFertili initiative was born precisely to accommodate these stories ... If you want to tell your experience of fertility, or infertility, you can start here.
