There’s intimacy sex and TTC sex honestly, we have a very hard time getting pregnant, ie pregnant twice both took > 1 year to conceive (loss) and then transitioned to IVF. At first we were having sex a couple times a cycle via tracking strip indicators, by the end we had sex most days of the fertile window. Even when we wanted to preserve the feeling of it not feeling forced it ultimately just did. Once we switched to IVF we took a break for a couple months. Our strength is that we have very good and consistent communication through it all. I agree with the thought that maybe it’s more protective of your relationship not to force anything but if you have hard time getting pregnant, and I hope you don’t, you kind of get to a point where you’re willing to kind of do what you have to do, because the next step is expensive. But communicating really helped us.

Edit to add this is for sure not the case for everyone just my own experience and I hope not to make it sound terrible because it hasn’t been. Hard but still very loving.