
I Flew In to Help My Best Friend Before Labor—But What She Told Me When I Arrived Made Me Turn Around and Go Straight Home
The Day I Realized I Was Just Free Labor in My Best Friend’s Life You know that saying, “You’d move mountains for someone, and they’d hand you a shovel and tell you to dig deeper”? I used to think that was just something people said. I didn’t know it would become my life at 35—standing in my best friend’s kitchen, holding a printed schedule that made my stomach turn. Let me start from the beginning. I’m Maya. I’ve always been the one people count on. The dependable one. If someone