She Spent Decades Caring for Everyone Else. Then She Bought a Ticket and Sailed Away

There is a kind of exhaustion that does not show up on a medical chart.

It builds slowly, over years, in the space between what you give and what you are left with.

Carmen had lived inside that exhaustion for a long time. She had raised her children, supported her husband, managed the household, and absorbed everyone’s needs so quietly and so completely continue reading …