My parents left their family, friends, and duties behind at 30 to move to America with me as a baby. Their motivation was me: a better life, opportunities, and freedom that they hadn’t known. I never fully grasped the weight of that until I had a daughter. And now suddenly EVERYTHING makes sense. When I’m lacking motivation to do things, I think about her and it refocuses me.
May 13, 2025
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Something I didn’t fully understand when I became a mother is really how much extra mental load you take on each time you have a kid. It is really so much logistical shit to keep track of. I am one of six, and my mom did a fantastic job of all of that stuff. We were always well fed, our home always clean, we always were on time for all the various things we each were doing. And it really was all her- at most, my dad was basically just following her orders. Her love language is definitely acts of service and every time she comes to visit I have to remind her to relax because she’s always trying to do stuff for us 😂
I love a lot of things about being a mom, but simply getting to know my children and building a strong relationship with them is so joyous and rewarding every day 💗
May 11, 2025
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because you knew for so long she was coming and now that she is here you’re so grateful that you did the work of healing generational wounds and mother trauma for yourself because now she will reap all of the benefits of that and even though she will experience her own hardship, it will be different from your own and she will have a mother that will love and be there for her unconditionally 🥲
Oct 22, 2024
Ive never ever lived with a man and that’s honestly so epic. The concept of together parents is as alien to me as people imagining their parents getting a divorce…
My mom is brave and strong and had the incredible foresight to just do it alone instead of giving me a bad home environment or making me have to process the weight of divorce as an older child. Shoutout my mom
Being a single mom in suburban white America in the early 2000s is kinda rad
She’s also a chef which is a really cool too
May 27, 2025
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I feel like there’s a special connectivity on this app that I haven’t felt in a long time, maybe since early 2010’s tumblr. The fact that you can’t promote yourself like IG is wonderful. The fact that there isn’t mass video content like Tik Tok is great. It’s not this monetized / paid sponsorship app. People are here because they want to be a part of something with nothing to gain besides friendship. Seeing the URL -> IRL meetups warms my heart so much (waiting for an NYC or Brooklyn meetup).
Thanks for your participation on this niche little app. I smile reading all the recs and all the comments and all the asks. Hope we’ll all be here for a long time.
Jun 15, 2024
florinegrassenhopper riotgrrrl brendanooooo slowdazzle buck_mcgraw and indianjones — we did it. Not only did we successfully meet for drinks, but we also schemed the hostile takeover of this app from tyler tonight.
In all seriousness — weird that an app I downloaded in April would make genuinely want to drive back into Brooklyn during end of day traffic for a happy hour. Great app filled with great people.
Jul 20, 2024
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I think a life rule for me is to surround myself with people who know more / are smarter / are cooler than me and just absorb their aura by listening / observing them. It’s made me the incredibly smart / cool person you all know and love.
I just never thought I’d feel the same way about URL friends. I’m constantly listening to the songs I see posted here, reading the articles, subbing to newsletters, and googling topics that get tossed onto the feed.
It’s nice to know you can become a more rounded person by just absorbing what your mutuals post on here. I’m going to sit on my couch, have a cocktail and digest my lovely feed. Happy Sunday!
Sep 15, 2024