{"id":21507,"date":"2020-05-14T18:03:45","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T18:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olgafertilityclinic.com\/?p=21507"},"modified":"2025-01-28T12:48:15","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T12:48:15","slug":"i-need-to-choose-between-fertility-treatment-and-my-husband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olgafertilityclinic.com\/en\/infertility-blog\/i-need-to-choose-between-fertility-treatment-and-my-husband\/","title":{"rendered":"I need to choose between fertility treatment and my husband"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Fertility treatment and&nbsp;my husband.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We all need to make difficult decisions in&nbsp;our lives and&nbsp;some decisions are tougher than&nbsp;others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"accent2\">We have talked to some women that&nbsp;are coming to a point in&nbsp;their lives where&nbsp;they need to decide whether&nbsp;to have children or&nbsp;keep their husband that&nbsp;is against their future egg donation or&nbsp;embryo adoption treatment. They have found a man that&nbsp;they love, a man that&nbsp;satisfies many of their needs, but&nbsp;not their need to be a mother and&nbsp;to have a child.<\/p>\n<p>When&nbsp;a woman passes the age to have her own genetic child she will then have a limited amount of time to do <strong>egg donation<\/strong>, as&nbsp;this is an age limited project. This also means that&nbsp;she will have a limited amount of time to talk her partner into doing the treatment with her.<\/p>\n<p>A couple needs to agree whether&nbsp;to go into <strong>donation treatment <\/strong>together and&nbsp;I have experienced, over the years, that&nbsp;some women need to make a choice; the treatment, or&nbsp;their man!<\/p>\n<h3>There can be many different reasons why&nbsp;they need to make such a choice, but&nbsp;here are some of them:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The man has children from the previous relationship and&nbsp;she has no children, he doesn\u2019t want another child.<\/li>\n<li>The man has <strong>low sperm quality<\/strong>, or&nbsp;no sperm at&nbsp;all to use in&nbsp;treatment and&nbsp;he doesn\u2019t want to use a sperm donor.<\/li>\n<li>The man doesn\u2019t want to be an \u2018old father\u2019 and&nbsp;just wants to continue his life without children.<\/li>\n<li>The man feels that&nbsp;if&nbsp;they cannot make the child naturally then it is not meant to be, or&nbsp;he is against paying a lot of money and&nbsp;getting medical help for&nbsp;something that&nbsp;should just happen by itself.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We have talked to older women in&nbsp;the need of <strong>egg donation<\/strong> and&nbsp;also women that&nbsp;are in&nbsp;need of sperm donation that&nbsp;does not know what to do so&nbsp;they are trying to talk their men into fertility treatment. Some of these women manage to do that, even&nbsp;if&nbsp;the man feels that&nbsp;they are being pushed into something that&nbsp;they do not want to do.<\/p>\n<p class=\"accent\">If&nbsp;the man decides that&nbsp;<strong>fertility treatment<\/strong> is not something he is willing to go through then the woman finds herself in&nbsp;the situation where&nbsp;she needs to choose; Keep him, or&nbsp;have a child?<\/p>\n<p>A woman needs to feel that&nbsp;she has done everything in&nbsp;her power to get pregnant before&nbsp;she can stop <strong>treatment<\/strong>. What this \u201ceverything\u201d is is individual to each woman, it can be two years of trying at&nbsp;home, or&nbsp;several <strong>IVF attempts<\/strong> with their own genetic material or&nbsp;donation. The maternal instinct is hard to stop, it is an instinct that&nbsp;means that&nbsp;it is stronger than&nbsp;a thought, or&nbsp;just a feeling.<\/p>\n<p>If&nbsp;a man wants a woman to choose between him and&nbsp;a child it can be because&nbsp;he thinks the love for&nbsp;him will win and&nbsp;they can continue their life like before.<\/p>\n<h3>The reality is different<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>A woman will not just \u201cforget\u201d that&nbsp;she wants to become a mother<\/li>\n<li>It is hard to continue a \u201cperfect\u201d relationship if&nbsp;the man you love stops the treatment that&nbsp;is your only chance to get pregnant and&nbsp;to become a mother.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Women do leave their husbands to do treatment! Some women are convinced that&nbsp;their husband will accept everything the minute they get pregnant and&nbsp;they will get back together, or&nbsp;she will even&nbsp;do treatment, without his permission, when&nbsp;they are still together.<\/p>\n<p>But, the woman needs to learn that&nbsp;the man also needs respect and&nbsp;understanding for&nbsp;his decision and&nbsp;that he might leave her because&nbsp;of this disrespect from her.<\/p>\n<p>Our advice is to follow your own instinct and&nbsp;your own needs whilst you still have time. The worst scenario is to wait to have treatment and&nbsp;then when&nbsp;it is too late blame your husband, then the result will be no child and&nbsp;no \u201cperfect\u201d relationship.<\/p>\n<p>Remember, you are the one that&nbsp;is responsible for&nbsp;all the choices you make! You need to do what is best for&nbsp;yourself because&nbsp;in the end, you have no one to blame but&nbsp;yourself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"accent\">We are not just a passenger in&nbsp;our own life, so&nbsp;we need to make active choices that&nbsp;will affect our life quality! Some are easy to make, others are hard, especially if&nbsp;you need to hurt someone you love!<\/p>\n<p class=\"accent2\">Make choices that&nbsp;will make &#8220;you&#8221; happy and&nbsp;respect that&nbsp;your partner has the possibility to do the same!<\/p>\n<p class=\"accent3\">We wish you the best of luck!<\/p>\n<p class=\"accent3\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Family counselor<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Tone Br\u00e5ten<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have talked to some women that are coming to a point in their lives where they need to decide whether to have children or keep their husband that is against their future egg donation or embryo adoption treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21589,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>I need to choose between fertility treatment and my husband - O.L.G.A. 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