from trumomcomfessions.com
Back when you were a kid, were you ever afraid that Mommy didn't love you and wished you'd never been born? Well, you may have been right, judging by some of the entries already on brand-new website True Mom Confessions. The site, which just launched, is meant as a repository for the darkest, guiltiest thoughts of moms — without all the hassle of gluing, decorating and searching high and low for a stamp. Here, blurted revelations are facilitated by a super-easy submission box — type and go! — offering the kind of ease and efficiency moms can rarely take for granted.
And what are these revelations, you ask? Here are a few:
We get it, being a mom can be rough. Founder Romi Lassally (inagural and former editor of HuffPo's "Becoming Fearless" page) said that the site sprang from "a hellish weekend with my three children (6, 9 and 16) which culminated with me leaving piles of vomit on the carpet hoping the dog would eat it" (she awarded that one the "Confession of the Week" on the site, so ladies, you're going to have to step it up to have a shot). Lassally, who co-founded and co-edits the site with mommy blogger Rebecca Woolf from Girl's Gone Child found the episode was strangely liberating: "I confessed my parenting faux pas to a friend and realized how good it felt to just get it out and not deal with any more guilt...and so the site was born." (No word on whether the dog (a) ate the vomit or (b) if not, how bad it smelled the next morning).
So far the site consists of just one page but Lassally hopes to expand (right now it's just a pet project, personally funded). But the wild popularity of PostSecret as well as obsessively-addictive mommyblogging sites like UrbanBaby (see Emily Nussbaum on the subject in NYMag) suggest that the little site may have giant, chubby legs. Its simplicity, anonymity and interactivity may be the perfect cocktail for mothers (who might otherwise turn to an actual cocktail). Even those reluctant to share their bad-mother qualities can weigh in on those of their peers with an option to click on "Did It" or "Thought It" — the idea, of course, being that everyone else is a lousy mother, too there are mommies like you all over with the same feelings, you're not alone.
Regardless of the subject matter, the model is clean and easy and primed for ripoff by enterprising websites looking to up their interactivity — the model can be applied to all manner of confessions, never mind all types of relationships or really area of concentration. Nevertheless, according to Lassally the only spinoff plans so far are for a "True Mom Confessions" radio show launching in May. Read, listen, and let the mysteries of your childhood become clear as you realize all the little ways in which you made Mommy's life hell.
Update: We have solved the mystery of the vomit! According to Lassally, "The dog ate it....or someone else did. Only a wet spot left on the carpet the next day!" Wow. Therapy and household cleaning tips!
