No, Yasmina doesn’t have time for a relationship: between caring for a child with a disability, her two other daughters and tight month-ends, this 38-year-old mother, who lives in Créteil, describes a daily life where the smallest victory counts double, and where a place of her own has yet to be invented.
Who is Yasmina?
Time for a relationship, though, is what’s missing. What’s left are the small victories, and they count double.
Yasmina is the mother of a child with a disability. But she lives her daily life from the inside, far from the shortcuts often attached to that word. Because being this kind of mother, she tells us, isn’t just about the care and the medical appointments that structure her days.
Behind this tightly run routine, there is simply a woman. A woman who also has to keep raising her two other daughters, manage financial hardship, and find a place of her own. That is the face we wanted to look at first, before getting into the rest of her story.
How does she hold the rest of family life together?
Beyond her child’s disability, there is the rest of the household to keep running. Her two other daughters are growing up too, and they ask for their share of attention and presence. All of this continues even as financial hardship sets in, and every month, the numbers have to add up for a family that can only count on itself.
And in the middle of all this, one question remains unanswered: that of a place of her own. No grand plan, just a little space that belongs to her alone. This place is sought, patiently, without ever quite being found.
Which victories really count?
In Créteil, this 38-year-old mother describes a family life upended by disability. In a daily routine reorganised around her child's needs, the usual benchmarks no longer apply: every day is measured on a different scale.
In this context, small victories sometimes take on immense importance. What would be celebrated elsewhere as a minor detail becomes, for her, a milestone that truly matters, one that gives meaning back to otherwise exhausting days.
Between appointments, balancing the books and the attention owed to her three daughters, Yasmina keeps patiently searching for that place that would belong to her alone. Time for a relationship, though, is what's missing. What's left are the small victories, and they count double.
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