@stillbecomingmama: the warning would have had to come from someone who was willing to say the true version out loud and i understand now why that is harder than it sounds. because the true version requires admitting something that sits uncomfortably next to the love. it requires saying i was lonely inside the thing i chose and wanted and would choose again. and that sentence has a shape that feels like complaint and a shape that feels like ingratitude and a shape that feels like you are saying something unfair about the people who love you who were right there sleeping twenty feet away. and none of that is what you mean but the sentence carries all of it anyway and so you do not say it. you say tired instead. you say hard but worth it. you say we are figuring it out. and the true version stays inside where the 2am is and does not come out into the daylight where it could be passed forward to the next person who will need it. and that is how the silence perpetuates. not through secrecy or shame exactly. through the impossibility of finding a sentence that carries the true thing without also carrying all the things you do not mean. the map does not need a sentence. it does not require you to find the words that carry the true thing without distorting it. it just shows the 2am as it actually is. lit up with women who are in it. and the woman who sees it receives the warning that nobody could figure out how to say. not in words. in light. here. this is what 2am actually is. now you know. #postpartum #newmom #postpartumsupport #momtok #momlife

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