Rant: Non-Affectionate Partner self.queerception
submitted 3 years ago * by
jorbhorb
I [25 ftm] been trying to conceive through IUI since August, but the process to get off of testosterone and set everything up has been going on since December 2019. It's been a long, arduous, and expensive process, and I'm still not pregnant.
I and my future coparent [23 ftm] aren't in a relationship, but we're very close friends and have been living together for upwards of 5 years now. I'm a very emotional and affectionate person, but he's deeply uncomfortable with physical touch and outward displays of emotion. This didn't cause any problems in our friendship, so I didnt think it would be a problem when we first started out TTC.
Now that IUI has failed over and over again, on top of me being an essential worker, it has become a much bigger deal. I'm exhausted, I'm frustrated, I'm heartbroken every time I get the negative pregnancy test, and all I really need is a hug and a good cry. He can't give me the emotional support I need and it's getting harder and harder every day. I don't even think he notices how much I'm struggling. I can't even complain about how damn expensive it is to pay for this all myself without a comment from him about how it'll be even crazier when the baby actually shows up.
This is my one chance to have a baby, once I'm back on testosterone again I will not be stopping it again. It's miserable being off of it. I don't really have the option of waiting until the world stops being terrible or trying to find someone else. It's this, and him, and now, or I don't get to start a family.
I guess I'm just trying to find anyone at all who understands what I'm going through. Please, if you have any advice about dealing with a distant partner, let me know. I'm desperate for any hope that it'll be okay. Thank you

EDIT: Ah, fuck.