Strength is not always about lifting heavy weights or running long distances.
Sometimes, it’s about carrying pain in your heart every single day, yet still finding a way to smile for the sake of your children.
I know a woman like that.
A mother.
A wife.
A daughter-in-law.
From the outside, she looks like a cheerful, active woman — always on the move, completing chores, managing two kids, attending events, and making it all look effortless. Yet, beneath that cheerful surface, she carries silent battles of women that few around her could ever imagine.
People often praise her, saying, “You’re so active! Even with such a small child, you manage everything. We could never do this.”
But only a few can truly see her pain, or understand the silent battles of women like her — the battles that happen behind closed doors and inside the heart.
She often says, “I don’t have any talents. I’m not working, I don’t do anything special.”
What she doesn’t know is that she is so much more than that.
She is the glue holding everything together, the quiet strength that keeps a family functioning, the living proof of resilience.
She entered marriage with hope and dreams, but soon realised that she was living in a house where acceptance was never offered to her. Her mother-in-law, for reasons she could never understand, never cared for her — perhaps because her son had married a woman of his own choice.
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Even after the birth of her first child, love and warmth from her mother-in-law were absent. The child grew up without ever feeling truly accepted by her grandmother in that house.
The environment kept getting worse. Meals were cooked separately, even though they lived under the same roof. Her relationship with her husband also started to decline. Arguments became frequent, and the bond they once had began to fade. There were moments when she thought of divorce. But the journey continued…
It was another chapter in the silent battles of women — the unseen struggles that continue even when a smile hides the pain.
When a Ray of Hope Appeared
Then came a turning point. Her mother-in-law decided to move back to her hometown. By then, her daughter was 6 years old.
For the first time in years, she could breathe freely inside her own home. Without the constant tension, her relationship with her husband started to improve. Slowly, they began to talk again, laugh again, and rebuild the bond they had lost.
It was during this phase of peace that they decided to have another child. She went through her pregnancy with hope in her heart, and everything went well. She gave birth to a beautiful baby boy.
She believed life had finally given her the happiness she had been waiting for.
But that happiness was short-lived. Soon after, she got the news that her mother-in-law was planning to return. Fear and worry instantly filled her heart, but she tried to stay positive. She practised affirmations, thought of good possibilities, and convinced herself that this time things would be different forever.
And in the beginning, it actually seemed like that might be true. The first month after her mother-in-law’s return went smoothly. But as people say — a person’s nature doesn’t change easily — her true colours started to show again.
Her marriage again started to suffer. Her husband chose to sleep with his mother because the four of them could not fit into a single room.
One whole year passed like this — almost daily fights, very little talking, and an emotional distance that kept growing. She constantly worried about her daughter and the kind of environment she was growing up in. This was not just a rough patch; it was one of those silent battles of women that no one talks about, where pain becomes routine and hope feels far away.
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Finding Joy in Sports Again
Finding joy in sports was never her plan, but life had other ideas…By the time her son was 1 year and 2 months old, she decided to do something for herself — something that reminded her of who she was before. She had always been passionate about sports, especially volleyball. So when there was an opportunity to join a throwball group in her apartment, she grabbed it.
Little did she know, even this step toward joy would become part of the silent battles of women she had been living all along.
The first day was exciting. She played with energy, feeling alive again. But on the second day, while practising, she injured her index finger badly.
The next day, she visited a doctor and was told she would need minor surgery. Still, she decided to wait and take 3–4 more opinions. That meant enduring an entire week of pain — while managing the house, doing all the cooking and grocery shopping, and caring for both her children.
During that week, she hurt the same finger multiple times while doing chores, making the pain even worse. Yet, she kept going. This is what people rarely talk about: the silent battles of women. These are the fights they fight daily — in pain, in exhaustion, in silence — because life doesn’t pause for them to heal.
Life After Surgery — And More Silent Battles of Women
Eventually, she went ahead with the surgery. The procedure was done, but the pain that followed was unbearable. Painkillers were not an option in large doses because she was still breastfeeding her one-year-old.
Still, she managed everything — cooking, cleaning, grocery shopping, school runs, and taking care of both her children — without skipping a beat.
One day, I told her,
“I can’t even imagine going through this much pain, let alone deciding to have the surgery while managing everything at home.”
She just smiled, as if it was no big deal. But to me, it was everything.
What the World Sees — And What It Doesn’t
The world sees her energy, her activeness, her “furtilapan.” They see her carrying her baby, managing all errands, smiling at everyone.
But very few, if any, can truly see the other side.
That unseen side is often filled with the silent battles of women, where resilience is built in solitude.
They don’t see is the storm inside her — that she is living in a marriage where her relationship with her husband is not the way it should be. They don’t see the loneliness of not having a real partner to share her heart with. They don’t see the quiet moments where she must hold back tears because she can’t let her children see her cry.
Maybe it’s a compulsion… maybe it’s a choice… but she has found her happiness in her children.
And despite everything, she stands tall.
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Why She’s the Strongest Person I Know
She is strong because she chooses love over bitterness.
She is strong because she hides her pain to protect the little hearts that call her “Mumma.” That choice, to hide her pain and keep moving forward, is the essence of the silent battles of women across the world.
She is strong because she wakes up every day, faces the same challenges, and still finds ways to smile.
That is a kind of strength most people will never understand.
It is the quiet strength that fuels the silent battles of women everywhere.
If you know a woman like her, look beyond her smile.
Admire her energy, but also honour her courage.
Because sometimes, the strongest souls — the ones fighting the deepest silent battles of women — are quietly breaking inside.
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