"I was in a domestic violence relationship where we were trying to become parents. We were doing IVF, trying adoption, and woven through all of that was a decade of domestic violence."
"We met when I was in my early 30s. That was an age where I was feeling under pressure from family to get married, to have children, to do the normal, conventional stuff. And I rushed into this."
A woman in her mid-50s recounts her experience of being in a domestic violence relationship while trying to become a parent through IVF and adoption. She met her partner in her early 30s, feeling pressured by family to marry and have children, which led her to rush into marriage. The decade-long struggle with domestic violence intertwined with her desire for a family created a complex and painful journey.
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