The other night, at my traditional group's moon ritual, I mentioned something about us trying to get pregnant. Another member, who routinely annoys me, started jumping up and down and dragged me off to the side. She and her husband had used AI! She was so excited for us! She's going to tell me the trick to getting pregnant with AI! Fortunately, we got called back to doing something, you know, related to a religious service, and I got to escape. Afterwards, she told me she'd send me an email! Telling me the secret!
The big secret? Having an orgasm while trying to inseminate! Both times she had an orgasm while inseminating, she got pregnant! But the one time she didn't, she didn't! That's the big secret!
No amount of telling her that we've tried for four months, both with and without orgasm, will change her belief that orgasm is the magic bullet, of course, just like telling people that the whole plan-to-adopt-and-you'll-get-pregnant or relax-on-vacation-and-you'll-get-knocked-up thing is not universally true, no matter what happened to you or your mother's cousin's daughter's ex-best-friend.
Sigh.
*Assvice, n., attempted advice by well-meaning but clueless people that directly or indirectly implies that you? Are a big idiot that hasn't, say, read anything about AI or considered adoption after four years of failed treatments. And also? The choices you are actually making are kind of dumb.