Desperate to become a dad

Dear Pastor,

I believe that I have found my soulmate but we cannot have children. We have been together ever since high school. She was different, beautiful, fun-loving, down to earth but strict. Even as a teenager, she had high morals and I was very impressed.

She got pregnant twice since we have been married. The first time was when we were 24 years old. The pregnancy lasted for six months, then she lost the baby.

Then she got pregnant again at 26 years old for only two months. She cried night and day because I knew she just wanted to make me a dad and I knew she'd be the perfect mother.

I have tried not to talk about it too much in order to not stress her out because I've learnt that this can dampen her chances of getting pregnant also.

But the truth is we are both 34 years old and my co-workers, friends and family taunt me about not being a dad almost every day.

Even my parents, in certain words, are trying to tell me to get someone else pregnant. But I'm afraid that it would just break my wife's heart into pieces.

We did several tests on both of us and it seems that she has some complications. Doctors are telling us not to give up but I'm afraid that our chances are slowly ticking away.

It's very rare that people find a love like ours which seems to grow more and more every day, so I hold on to her like a treasure.

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Dear Writer,

Keep loving your wife and treasure her and I hope that she would do the same to you. Both of you are not too old to become parents. All I can promise you are prayers.

You have gone to a number of doctors and nothing is happening, but prayers can turn things around. So I will pray along with you.

Pastor