The authors wrote this article in the context of the ongoing wars, losses, battles, violence, conflicts, hunger, and unprecedented humanitarian crises in the Arab world and in the context of the discrimination, hatred, and separations faced by many refugee families who are seeking to find a safer life for themselves and their children. Drawing on correspondence and shared conversations between the two authors, they describe what it is like to be a woman and mother of a young child in Yemen, the poorest of all the Arab countries, during its protracted and brutal civil war. Dalia's writings give voice to the complex range of deep feelings, hopes, and fears she experienced as a pregnant mother as war broke out in Yemen and as she decided to flee so that her young son can have a safer future. Dalia's correspondence also underscores the close interconnectedness between attachment, loss, and separation throughout life and the role of memories and early attachment bonds in giving a young child hope in a changing world.