The gradual or ongoing detachment from the emotional or behavioral responsibilities of motherhood, often seen in young mothers who had children during their teenage years and never fully transitioned into a maternal role.
Can involve a lifestyle that mirrors someone in their twenties, with parenting taking a backseat.
Can involve a lifestyle that mirrors someone in their twenties, with parenting taking a backseat.
“She had her son at 16, but it’s like she never grew into being a mom—still out every weekend. Classic case of maternal drift.”
“Maternal drift hit hard after she realized she missed out on her youth and tried to reclaim it.”
“Don’t confuse maternal drift with bad parenting—it’s deeper, like being emotionally stuck between two lives.”
Maternal Drift
“Maternal drift hit hard after she realized she missed out on her youth and tried to reclaim it.”
“Don’t confuse maternal drift with bad parenting—it’s deeper, like being emotionally stuck between two lives.”
Maternal Drift
by PosthumouslyObscure June 2, 2025
Get the Maternal Driftmug. The subtle feeling that the world around you is slightly fake, off, or slipping out of sync. A cultural vertigo caused by algorithms, endless feeds, and manufactured experiences that blur the line between what’s authentic and what’s engineered.
Scrolling through TikTok at 2 a.m. and realizing every trend feels staged gave me major reality drift.
by GuyWhoWritesDefinitions September 2, 2025
Get the Reality Driftmug. Billy: Hey Jim, what's wrong with your joycon?
Jim: Damn it it must be drifting.
Billy: Just blow into it maybe it will tone it down a bit.
Jim: Damn it it must be drifting.
Billy: Just blow into it maybe it will tone it down a bit.
by LegalMeme September 10, 2019
Get the Driftingmug. The earliest quotation in the Oxford English Dictionary for this sense of "drift" is dated 1526: "Harde it is . . . to perceyue the processe and dryfte of this treatyse."
Found on "Phrases dot org"
The speaker may be having trouble communicating with their audience and not knowing how to better explain.
This is similar to "do you feel me?" or "do you get it?".
Otherwise there is a certain mentality and a certain consciousness along with what the speaker & the audience are generally known to understand.
Found on "Phrases dot org"
The speaker may be having trouble communicating with their audience and not knowing how to better explain.
This is similar to "do you feel me?" or "do you get it?".
Otherwise there is a certain mentality and a certain consciousness along with what the speaker & the audience are generally known to understand.
by Hare Krsna Gardening December 26, 2022
Get the Do you catch my driftmug. .9.Ima Drift Around Her Curves Then See Her Soon, She Wants To Know My Name, Thought She Knew The Truth, Eating Sunflower Seeds, That Is New York In June, Pierced White Gold Attachments For Leisure Based Tombs.9.
.9.Ima Drift Around Her Curves Then See Her Soon, She Wants To Know My Name, Thought She Knew The Truth, Eating Sunflower Seeds, That Is New York In June, Pierced White Gold Attachments For Leisure Based Tombs.9.
by .03.4.3.0.ehayusalulA.3.4.3.0. August 12, 2025
Get the .9.Ima Drift Around Her Curves Then See Her Soon, She Wants To Know My Name, Thought She Knew The Truth, Eating Sunflower Seeds, That Is New York In June, Pierced White Gold Attachments For Leisure Based Tombs.9.mug. When someone keeps repeating a word a lot in the same small period of time.
Originates from: when girls are rejecting you and keep saying they don't want you to drift apart.
Originates from: when girls are rejecting you and keep saying they don't want you to drift apart.
Dude 1: He kept pulling a "drift apart" about his football practice
Dude 2: Yea, man! WE GET IT. STOP REPEATING.
Dude 2: Yea, man! WE GET IT. STOP REPEATING.
by Meedz ElHussiny September 28, 2012
Get the Pulling a "Drift Apart"mug. by 4amcoochie March 19, 2020
Get the driftmug.