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The study intends to analyses living experiences of infertile couples and the people who had unsuccessful infertility treatment. The research design adopted was qualitative research design. The study used a semi-structured interview to collect data from twenty infertile participants which means ten couples. The samples of ten couples within the age group of 22 � 45 was collected from Karnataka and Kerala through snowball sampling. The study focus on couples living experience of infertility and as well as male infertility perspective. The infertility was categories as primary and secondary infertility. The researcher used content analysis to interpret the common feelings of infertility. The results revealed positive and negative feelings towards infertility. The positive feelings identified are acceptance, coping strategies, hope, positivity, belief on spiritual / divine healing. And negative emotions were guilt, suffering, feeling of being lonely, negative emotions and lack of family support. According to the participants, having a positive attitude, helps them increase their will power and it gives them hope of surviving through their treatment process even if they have unsuccessful treatment. The study also helped to understand from different dimensions like social perception, family perception and interpersonal attitude towards infertility. Counseling, alternative psychotherapies and assisted reproductive technology (ART) has been regarded as most stressful infertility treatment methods. The study revealed yet other observations and findings that endeavor scope for further research in this topic.