Today someone finally asked me if I was OK and it caught me so off guard that I burst into tears. It was as if I had been waiting for someone, anyone, to notice that I have not been OK for a very long time. Having to pretend everything is fine has been exhausting. This is why I write to you. These pages are for you and for me and for all the other mamas out there who feel like they are sinking. Sometimes can feel like you have already sunk to the bottom with no hope of getting back up to the surface. But together, we can swim. Let’s swim, dear Mama. Let’s swim for ourselves, for our children, and for the lives we ache for, the ones we fiercely deserve. There is more waiting for us than this moment. No matter how final and hopeless it may feel. It will be better and you will swim to that surface. I promise you.