No one talks about what lies behind the harsh reality of raising a newborn or several children alone, without a job, without a home, without insurance, without practically anything... No one talks about the children who are now adults and those who are still children who never felt the love of a mother or father. And the truth can be so painful, but even more so if we live it. If you, who are reading this, are living it, or if, for whatever reason, you didn't have a mother with you to give you love or she abandoned you, I just want to tell you that you are not alone, and that simply being here, fighting to try to survive what you have been through, makes you a brave person.

I am not a mother, nor am I an orphan. I grew up without the affection of my father, who only had time for his work and his interests. I grew up watching my mother struggle alone for us, to feed me, to prove herself stronger each time, while I thought that behind her smile was a happy person. But no, my mother has been a strong woman despite having certain fears. She has never let herself be defeated, and I can say to this day that her love for me has been unconditional, a genuine love, a love that becomes an example and is capable of anything.

I always ask her where she got the money to feed me since my father barely gave her any, and she tells me she struggles a lot, always thinking of me and not herself. She knew I was still little and couldn't fend for myself to help her work; she had to raise me no matter what, however she could, whatever the cost. Even so, in the midst of all that suffering and my mother's accumulated tears, she always had time to teach me to be a good person, to be sincere, humble, honest, and not to let myself be defeated. Although for me, my parents' separation was like a turbulent hurricane that passed without leaving a trace, she always encouraged me not to let myself be defeated by depression.

From my own experience, I know that a mother's love can be unconditional. When you truly love, when you take responsibility for your children as your own, when you give without expecting anything in return and sacrifice yourself out of love, nothing else matters. Like my mother, I know there are many mothers who, in the midst of desperation, try to raise their children. Perhaps that makes them unsure how to give good advice when, in moments like those, they don't know how to fix their own lives. And if I had been in my mother's shoes, with how sensitive I am, I don't think I would have endured so much. You have to be very brave and show a lot of selfless and unconditional love for your children to be able to give them your own food and risk everything to take care of them...