What would you do if your partner is sterile?
By hottie0728
@hottie0728 (1732)
United States
March 9, 2007 7:09pm CST
TO married couples most especially!!!
Of course you wouldn't know unless you tried right? After years and years of trying you found out that your partner is sterile and does not have a capacity to bear a child. How would you deal with it? What if your partner knew it all along but he/she never told you because he/she is afraid of losing you. Would you get mad? Would you stay with him/her even without a child of your own?
Would you consider adoption or a babymaker?
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5 responses
@dellion (6698)
• Malaysia
10 Mar 07
If am that truly in that kind of stuation I will prefer still with her and am sure she will do the same to me:)Anyway if that should happen I will wish to face it instead of ty to hide it from my partner as I think been honest and sincere were very important for any healthy family. I might think of either adoption or babymaker as my solutions if both of us really wish to ave a child.
@raydene (9871)
• United States
10 Mar 07
I am not sure how I would deal with it,I would be very upset of course.If he knew all along I would feel betrayed and I would have a hard time trusting him again.If her wasn't honest about that what else did he not tell me,right?
I think that I would be mad,furious to be exact and if I would stay with him would go back to if I could learn to trust him again because I could not stay with someone I couldn't trust.That would be too stressful.
I would not rule out adoption or being ai'ed.It would all depend on the overall situation.
I'm glad I didn't have that to deal with.
Raydene
@MySpot (2600)
• United States
12 Mar 07
If I found out my partner was sterile I wouldn't hold it against him... unless he was sterile by choice (vasectomy) and I'd be very hurt if we were trying to conceive when he knew it wasn't possible. I'm not even sure if that would be forgivable.
Couples, especially women, deal with a lot of emotional stress while trying to conceive unsuccessfully. They are really disappointed after trying again and again. They start to question why and even feel guilty about it. I don't think a sincere and loving person would allow their significant other to suffer like that : (
If either of us were unable to conceive, by no fault of our own, I'd be okay with it. I believe everything happens for a reason so I'd accept it and consider other options if we wanted children. I'd definitely consider adoption... there are way too many kids in need of a good loving home not to consider this as an option!
@mrsturner (518)
• Canada
10 Mar 07
I think that if he knew all along I would feel betrayed. Especially if we had been supposedly trying to conceive for years. A lot of men would not know this though as most are tested for this after marriage. Either way I would stay with him as I didn't marry his sperm - I married him. Unfortunately, it would be hard to trust him after so great a lie. I would want to adopt or consider a sperm bank.
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@maddysmommy (16230)
• United States
12 Mar 07
If my husband was sterile and didn't know it, then I would think we would look into adopting a child or two. If he knew that he was sterile and didn't tell me when we met, I would be really pissed off. I wouldn't leave him because of it, however I would make sure he knew I was angry with him LOL.






