The word "mom" evokes visions of to-do lists dancing in our heads. If a kid needs something done from fixing cuts and scrapes to asking for cookies, they look to mom. She gets it done but often at the cost of being fun.
Mental health advocate Libby Ward's TikTok page, "Diary of an Honest Mom," chronicles her life as a parent. One now-viral post is about losing and needing to reclaim who she used to be, and it has struck a chord with thousands of moms. Tighten your core — it’s a gut punch.
Her rap gets right to the point.
"One thing about me is that when I was growing up, I was a really fun person to be around," she raps in the clip, detailing how she married young and had fun with her husband. After they had children, she was in love with them, but she wasn’t prepared for the invisible load of motherhood and became overwhelmed, she explains.
She lists some of the things taking up space in a mom's brain.
“[Y]ou have to keep thinking literally all day and all night, and anticipating everybody's every single need, and deciding when to feed everyone and what to feed them and where they go, and … paying bills and doing all the things in my brain that you can't see,” Libby’s rap shares.
Losing that part of herself changed how she felts about her husband.
Libby explains that she felt so much less fun than she did before and felt resentful and jealous of her husband, who could still freely find his fun side.
The content creator shared all of this because she knows she isn’t the only mom losing her fun side to the weight and responsibility of parenting.
So many moms can relate to Libby's post.
The Canadian mom’s comments section blew up with other mothers who saw their parenthood experience reflected back at them in such a relatable, funny way.
“Is this me?? I don’t remember making this video … so relatable,” one person shared.
“THIS IS ME. First time mom. Please tell me it gets better? I want to be fun again,” another person expressed.
“The fact that I secretly resented my husband because I never had a choice, yet everything was always optional for him,” another mom wrote.
The same sentiment is echoed throughout the comments section.
It's as if Ward gave moms permission to admit that sometimes motherhood changes them in negative ways, and they ran with it.
Her content tells it like it is in a heartwarming, and hysterically funny way, whether she’s talking about refereeing kids, relationship maintenance, or needing leak-proof leggings.
