How Often Do You Cry?

powplz
wrote on October 12 2009 @ 09:42 am: [report]

That does sound high.  After almost being laid off last week (got a transfer instead) and then getting jerked around as I exited that position, I ended up crying twice - once with my boss and her boss, then again with one of the HR managers who was helping me navigate appealing some things as I recounted things to her in her office.  That’s kind of a fluke though. 

I also broke down and cried about three weeks ago when I was having problems with my bank and a car loan.  I tried to put off actually buying the car until after my hell week at work ended, but I couldn’t and the stress just broke me, so I sat under my desk so that people couldn’t tell I was in my office and I just cried.  Then I got over it, but it did feel good to just take a few minutes and let it out.

Aside from weird stuff like that (I just finsihed the busy work season in a really, really bad year), I shed a few tears every other week maybe thinking about people I miss, revolved around suicide prevention, which just brings it all back fairly often.

amandabear
wrote on October 12 2009 @ 09:44 am: [report]

2 hours does seem pretty high. I haven’t kept track or anything, but I’d say maybe 30 minutes to an hour, depending. Usually on the lower end of that, because soppy movies and stuff rarely make me cry.

SCRMOM
wrote on October 12 2009 @ 09:46 am: [report]

I rarely cry, and if I do, it’s related to something happy or while watching a movie.  However, these are not hysterical crying fits, but my eyes watering up and maybe a tear coming out.  However, I haven’t had adversities in my life (yet) that might bring out a more emotional side.

Jillybean
wrote on October 12 2009 @ 09:48 am: [report]

Today I cried three times: driving to a meeting, I stalled twice at consecutive traffic lights with the same car behind me. Tears of shame.

Parking the car I had a little sniffle walking to the parking meter because I was a little nervous about my meeting.

On the way home I cried while singing along to ‘Kara’s Coordinates’ on cd player because . . . well I’m not sure why.

From this I deduce my period is imminent. When I was a kid I had a heart of stone, but nowadays I weep at the drop of a hat. The Guinness ad about the prisoner and the horse? That’s an ordeal for me. When I worked with kids I’d break my heart if one of them was sad. Recently I’ve had a huge run of bad luck so these past few months I reckon I’ve spent about an hour in tears since I had a funeral and a pet death to contend with among others.

Kati-Anne
wrote on October 12 2009 @ 09:49 am: [report]

I maybe cry for 3 minutes a month, if that much. It’s not that I don’t get sad or emotional, I’m just not a crier, I guess. When I do cry it last for about 30 seconds, then I regain my composure and stop. Unless, that is, I’m watching My Girl, that is the only movie that makes me cry and it gets me every time. And I don’t think there’s anything wrong with crying, it’s just not really something I do much, and I usually feel worse after crying, so I hold it back when I can.

Kati-Anne
wrote on October 12 2009 @ 09:53 am: [report]

oh, but if I go off the pill I do get really emotional and cry about completely ridiculous things when I’m not even that upset, so yay birth control!

powplz
wrote on October 12 2009 @ 09:57 am: [report]

@Kati-Anne - I’m the exact opposite - it took me a very long time to figure it out, but on bc pills I cried a lot over things that usually didn’t warrant it.  Now that I’m off, it’s rare that I burst into full-out sobbing tears, though as mentioned above, I get misty and shed a few tears now and then, but it’s usually just that - no more than a few tears.

SCRMOM
wrote on October 12 2009 @ 09:58 am: [report]

I don’t have hormonal mood swings - never had a problem while on the Pill, never have PMS symptoms, never was emotional during pregnancies, etc.  Maybe that partially explains my lack of crying because I don’t have the emotional ups and downs each month that some women experience.

Wendy Atterberry
wrote on October 12 2009 @ 09:58 am: [report]

@Jillybean Driving tears! God, I almost forgot about those. I haven’t driven a car since I moved to New York, but back in Chicago it seemed like practically every time I got behind the wheel I started crying. Nothing is as stressful to me as navigating Chicago traffic (and parking).

spatula
wrote on October 12 2009 @ 10:01 am: [report]

I just started my period (TMI?) so I’d guess that I cried about 19 times over the weekend. But still, time-wise, that probably totaled up to 7 minutes. Maybe. When I say CRY, i mean I got really flustered or upset, and tears occured, ususally VERY briefly. over 2 hours a month sounds outrageoud to me, and I am def a crier.

Jillybean
wrote on October 12 2009 @ 10:06 am: [report]

@ Wendy - I genuinely love driving. I don’t usually get driving tears but I had ‘em today! Don’t blame you for not driving in New York, though. I’m a bit of a running joke among my friends for being a bad passenger. In NY I just close my eyes and pray to any deity who might be listening.

Like Spatula, I cry despite myself. The tears come and my throat closes up and all that, but I HATE crying. I don’t understand people who say ‘have a good cry and you’ll feel better’. Crying just makes me feel worse.

Lynn
wrote on October 12 2009 @ 10:06 am: [report]

I cry a lot more in the past couple years, and even now I would say it’s probably an average of 30 minutes a month or something. I don’t even remember the last time I cried, usually when I’m fighting with my BF or something. Two hours a week seems really excessive - even during my lowest points I probably cried a total of more like four-five hours for a week at a time, but times that intense have only happened maybe 3 weeks of my life.

Jessica Wakeman
wrote on October 12 2009 @ 10:12 am: [report]

I cry all the time —— probably a little bit every day, whenever I feel stressed out, frustrated or sad. I’m very sensitive. Not a full-fledged crying session, but I get teary-eyed just about every day and a tear will run down my cheek every few days or so.

Jenbug
wrote on October 12 2009 @ 10:16 am: [report]

I have started crying all of the time. I used to go for what felt like years without crying but recently I just started to let it all out. It feels kind of soft and feminine to have a little cry.

hlnbabe
wrote on October 12 2009 @ 10:17 am: [report]

I don’t cry super often (some akin me to “heartless”). However, that does not mean I’m incapable, just rarely do things in my life cause me to cry.

This may sound incredibly weird, but sometimes I watch a movie with the intention of crying. I find crying relieving and cathartic so I will watch a super sad movie with the hopes of sobbing.

Gingee
wrote on October 12 2009 @ 10:22 am: [report]

The last time I cried was when I found the body of my best friend, in 2006. 

Other than that, I do not weep.

Gingee

emflow
wrote on October 12 2009 @ 10:23 am: [report]

I normally cry very little - leaving for college, death in the family, etc. Sometimes I tear-up but that’s different from a really crying jag for me.

But I started birth control pills and for the past few months there’s one day in my cycle where I’ll need to cry usually 15min - 1hr. It’s like clock-work and it’s starting to bother me. If anyone has any tips for mitigating this side effect I’d love to hear them.

elizajane
wrote on October 12 2009 @ 10:24 am: [report]

Two hours a week is insane and I suggest that if you are crying that much on a regular basis you need to reevaluate your life choices. I cry maybe once/twice a year(fights with BF, funeral of close relation). I do occasionally tear up during sad/emotional scenes in movies, weddings, funerals but no actual sobbing. Of course, I have been accused of being dead inside or “acting like a man.”

HippieFashionista
wrote on October 12 2009 @ 11:01 am: [report]

My eyes water up when I see cute baby clothes at the mall i’m not even pregnant or want to be! what’s wrong with me?

DancerNinja
wrote on October 12 2009 @ 11:33 am: [report]

I cry at personal life events, not movies, shows, or such. I cried pretty bad when I got laid off two months ago. I cried from exhaustion when I finished a marathon. I cried from frustration when I had a really tough workout in a training session leading up to a lifting meet. I cried over a year ago when I drove out of Texas to move to California. All in all, I’d say on average I tear up about once every three months when something overwhelming happens.

thehighandlow
wrote on October 12 2009 @ 11:45 am: [report]

I don’t cry much at all but there is one guaranteed tear jerker for me… I have 3 absolutely amazing dogs that I rescued from shelters. If I even start to think about or wonder how ANYONE could have abandoned or abused them, I cry. Hard.

Jenn27549
wrote on October 12 2009 @ 11:57 am: [report]

Two hours a week is ALOT for someone who is mentally stable, I think.  Sure, there are those bad times where it might exceed that and maybe that ups the average, but I still think that’s off a bit.  I go back and forth depending on what all is going on in my life and how many times I encounter a trigger but on the whole I don’t cry every week.  At least once a month, though, but that could be at the end of a sad movie and not something happening to me personally.  I tend to only cry alone, unless its the result of an argument of fight with my SO.  I will bottle it up and wait until I’m home…or driving alone.  I know I’ve probably freaked out people in traffic, sobbing uncontrollably in my car next to them.

raqueleza
wrote on October 12 2009 @ 12:02 pm: [report]

I feel like I want to cry quite often, at least every other time I watch tv. I don’t know what it is, but every Sylvan Learning Center commercial, Little Women (saw it for the first time the other day), and even the commercial for I’m Alive on TLC (with a stupid Nickleback song playing in the background) makes me feel like I could turn on serious water works…but I hold back. Today it was the part in A League of Their Own where the black woman throws Gina Davis the baseball really hard…totally got choked up.

But crying about real-life things that actually matter? Hardly ever.

kayti
wrote on October 12 2009 @ 12:11 pm: [report]

One of the medications I’m on for my narcolepsy is an antidepressant. I miss being able to cry, it’s therapeutic for me. Though I did cry during Private Practice the last two weeks and some songs make me tear up, I don’t cry for personal reasons anymore. I realize when sad things happen, and feel the urge to cry, but I can’t get the release to help move on, so I just think about it more and more. I dislike it.

Lilypie
wrote on October 12 2009 @ 12:33 pm: [report]

I cry all the time. Between my stupid decision to want to be medication free and ignore my depression and then being a fairly emotional person, I find myself in tears at least every day.

ootie
wrote on October 12 2009 @ 12:43 pm: [report]

2 hours a week? I’m sure you guys can all do math, but that’s like…15-20 minutes a day.  That’s insane.  I can’t even remember the last time I cried for 15 minutes in one day, and if it happened every day, I feel like I would be an extremely sad lady.  I probably cry about 10-20 minutes a month, I’m guessing? That could be really off though.

powplz
wrote on October 12 2009 @ 12:52 pm: [report]

@dancerninja - I forgot about moving crying!  When I moved from PA to AZ, I started crying as soon as I got on the freeway and I don’t think I stopped til we hit Ohio.  I also can’t really help but cry when I miss flights/get bumped/flights are canceled, though I usually try not to do so out in the open =\

retro chic
wrote on October 12 2009 @ 01:01 pm: [report]

Crying is like little tropical rain showers for me. Here and gone. It’s part of my full range of emotional calisthenics and stress relievers, tho it does peak PMS-time. Could be anything or nothing; my world or in the news. Crying is just bits of life that push out thru my tear ducts is all. You just need a stop-watch or stop-action camera to catch it. Mainly, I just try to brush it all off.

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One extreme portrayal of women crying under stress: Meg Ryan in Courage Under Fire (biopic). As the ranking Captain, she’s up to her neck in enemy territory, hand-to-hand combat and injured WHILE planning a rescue and protecting the lives of her company – shed a silent tear – once. When confronted as a sign of weakness by the male troops in her command, she said “It’s just stress, a**hole!” Geez

I don’t like military movies (and is merely the real-life stage on which the human story is told anyway), but that one came to mind as an extreme illustration of the disparity of standards for tears and stress relief. I think sometimes we are measured similarly in our day-to-day lives.

CherryJustice
wrote on October 12 2009 @ 02:54 pm: [report]

I find myself fighting back tears of frustration a few times a week. I fight these tears because they usually well up at work or school—places where I don’t want to be considered overly emotional or easily-shaken. Other than that, I kinda…rather…like crying. This might be extremely strange, but I really enjoy a little melancholy and feel really alive when I’m a little saddish. I love to draw the shades, put on some Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, et al and let the good (sad) times roll. This happens maybe once a month for a half hour or so, if I’m lucky. (I know, super strange!)

I think I consider melancholy an emotional treat because I have a naturally sunny disposition and tend to be a jokey, life-of-the-party kind of girl in my social life. Plus, I come from a family of individuals who view crying as weak and useless. My teary side is a part of me that is only mine to enjoy and it helps me recharge my batteries.

writergirl
wrote on October 12 2009 @ 04:24 pm: [report]

Even when my Dad died I didn’t rack-up two plus hours of tears.

The last time I cried (for something other than a movie) was….uh….yeah.  Then.  I have no freaking clue.  Oh.  Wait.  I remember now.  April 5th.  The hotwater heater died.  The downstairs toilet backed up and overflowed.  Hubby was in Las Vegas for a business trip and wouldn’t let me call a plumber to repair said heater or toilet.  Had to take a freezing cold shower and attend a family event.  That day I managed a whole three minutes.

So…where do they get these numbers?

Knitter79
wrote on October 12 2009 @ 05:50 pm: [report]

I am a regular crier, from a family of criers, been clinically depressed for years and I still think two hours a week is ridiculously high.  Commercials, movies, pictures of my nephew, etc. all make me tear up but that would only get me up to 5 minutes a week if that.  Last major crying episode was a year ago from being super stressed out from work/health/money problems.  That was maybe 10-15 minutes, though.

@bethlynn00: A Walk to Remember always gets me too!

Anniushka
wrote on October 12 2009 @ 05:52 pm: [report]

Some weeks are cry-ier than others. I shed two tears last night listening to a song. Two days ago I got teary-eyed and sniffly with frustration when I couldn’t find an equation that I needed for a chemistry problem anywhere in my notes (and I’d been using that bloody equation all last week! I felt like I was going crazy!). I recently caught myself tearing up when I looked at a chair and thought, “Somebody made that chair.”

Big outbreaks only happen a few times a year. Three or four time, maybe, thinking about family members who have passed away, but those only last five or ten minutes. Last year the number was higher because I had to sit through a couple of half-hour paper conferences and listen to my cruel professor rip my papers (and, by extension, me) to shreds. The first conference, before I’d learned to brace myself, was basically me sobbing for half an hour in her office while she went on about how e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g was wrong with my paper—my thesis, my logic, my progression, my organization, even my effing punctuation—except for my writing style, which, she conceded, “At least wasn’t distractingly poor.” Damning with faint praise, indeed. :-( If I hadn’t already decided I wouldn’t be majoring in the humanities by that point, I was absolutely decided by the time she was done with me. I declared a Earth sciences major the following quarter…

Gingee
wrote on October 12 2009 @ 06:17 pm: [report]

Merciful havers, lass.  Get thee to a physician.

I went through something like that, and finally saw my doc and said that the mood swings were killing me.  He said that some women have this because of the estrogen hormone whatever.

Put me on a benzodiazepene, and everything changed overnight.  My BF said, “Whatever happens, make sure you never run out of that stuff.”

Sami
wrote on October 12 2009 @ 06:23 pm: [report]

Well if estrogen is the reason we cry then my Estrogen defiancy is really a blessing in disguise, well hypothyroidism had to be good for something..

DancingGeek
wrote on October 12 2009 @ 06:27 pm: [report]

Now that I’m single, I rarely cry.  I am very sensitive and a well written hallmark commercial will make me teary eyed, but i don;t really think that’s crying, a sappy chick flick will make me cry, but only for a few minutes.

CJ1432
wrote on October 12 2009 @ 06:29 pm: [report]

I think it depends what’s going on.  I’ve had weeks were I’ve cried a lot, then others when I haven’t at all.  In the past month I’ve cried three times,  when my best friend moved 14 hours away (but that was at her good bye party and a lot of alcohol had been consumed).  Then last week, when my car died on me in the middle of traffic and again when I found out the transmission went out and how much it was going to cost me to get fixed.

amorsalado
wrote on October 12 2009 @ 07:53 pm: [report]

I cry all the freaking time.  Almost every emotion I feel manifests in tears.  I cry when I’m sad and angry and stressed and frustrated and when I’m happy and when something is extremely funny.  On and on.  It’s always been this way with me, and my mother is exactly the same.  My sister, however, is 35 years old, and I’ve honestly seen her cry four times in her entire life, not counting the baby years.

Add to my quick and easy tears the fact that I’m on a metric boatload of fertility hormones, and I’d bet it’s safer to say that there are only two hours and 14 minutes a week where I DON’T cry.

sportzriter13
wrote on October 12 2009 @ 07:57 pm: [report]

Today-lots. My great grandma died, I’m still tired from a busy week and I missed the deadline for an essay (have to e-mail advance copy to professor-working on it so I can send a very late e-mail and bring it in tomorrow) and just felt like s***. GRRR!!!

Usually-not as much. Unless I get very frustrated, sad or watch a sappy movie. That or going to a emotional event (funeral, graduation, wedding) or exceptionally crappy times. 2 hours and 14 minutes? not in an average week, thank you much.

Sami
wrote on October 12 2009 @ 08:12 pm: [report]

sportxriter13, sorry about your great grandma when my grandma died it was one of only 7 times in my life I cried for an entire month and I wasn’t comfortable with it for yrs; the advice that helped me deal with it was this “rememer her how she lived not how she died” I hope this helps..
PS I generally don’t cry much, but when it comes to laughing there are times I can’t stop..

Sami
wrote on October 12 2009 @ 08:13 pm: [report]

@amorsaldo,
Quick question how much water do you drink per day because what you say you do is impossible unless you drink at least 4 times the recommended daily amount…

sportzriter13
wrote on October 12 2009 @ 08:18 pm: [report]

@sami-thanks. She was in pain, and was 96 years old, so it’s a relief for her, in a way. But it will be hard for the rest of us. I am clinging onto those memories of how she lived.
I bawled my eyes out when my Nana passed away. Seeing my dad cry at the funeral was surreal, seeing as it was the first time I ever really saw him cry.
I can be a very emotional person, but luckily it’s more laughter and smiles then tears.

SummertimeFirefly
wrote on October 12 2009 @ 08:22 pm: [report]

I usually only cry when I’m really frustrated about something and never cry with people around - except my mom. I’ll only cry in front of her, so that limits my crying situations right there.

The exception: A good friend passed away last year and I do cry when I think about him (he was only 24 and had brain tumors). He’s the only person I’ve ever really cried over on a reoccurring basis.

Sami
wrote on October 12 2009 @ 08:23 pm: [report]

My grandma was in her late 60’s and died from a botched surgery by inadaquite surgeons, it was such a simple surgery and they messed it up; the reason it affected me so much was because I was one of the last people to see her before she died.  The memories of her life were all that kept me going but I dwelled on them to much, I later learned that I should remember her but not dwell because dwelling = depression; and having more laughter than tears is always good because ppl who laugh live longer…

Sami
wrote on October 12 2009 @ 08:25 pm: [report]

Summertime Firefly, that is very sad about your friend especially since he died so young; I hope you continue to remember him for the good times and not the bad..

sportzriter13
wrote on October 12 2009 @ 08:30 pm: [report]

@sami-mine had cancer (dad’s side, mom’s side is very much alive; we all live together). the great grandma who died is the mother-in-law of my late nana. Yes, I said in-law. They got along better then nana and her mom did. *wipes away tear,laughs* maybe that’s why I love getting along with john’s mom. I want us to get along like nana and grandma b did (although I am very close to my mother). 

Sami
wrote on October 12 2009 @ 08:40 pm: [report]

That is very nice, after all sometimes in-laws are as close as family; I hope you can take my advice and remember her how she lived..

nolatastic
wrote on October 12 2009 @ 08:44 pm: [report]

I was with my ex-boyfriend for five years, and during that time I would cry at least twice a week.  It would lead to massive fights, and he started to think I was emotionally unstable.  We broke up about three months ago, and I moved to a new city for grad school.  I haven’t cried since then, and now I realize I was expressing my frustration over his lack of commitment.  I felt like he was in control of my life, and I couldn’t make him change, so I cried.  Now that I’m the one in control of my life, I don’t need that outlet anymore.

amorsalado
wrote on October 12 2009 @ 09:15 pm: [report]

@Sami-if it were possible to overdose on water, I would have achieved that by now.  It’s the only beverage I ever drink, and once again courtesy of fertility drugs and hormones, I am always thirsty.

Steph Pro
wrote on October 13 2009 @ 11:46 am: [report]

I will have little, less than 30 second outburst of tears one or twice a month, but when something big happens, like a death or something, I can cry for days…literally days.  Once, I even cried hard enough to bruise my eye, which made me have a nice little black eye for a few days…  But those outbursts happen ones in a while, thank goodness.

lawyrgrl
wrote on October 13 2009 @ 02:11 pm: [report]

Doesn’t it depend on where you are in your life?  Many months I will not shed a tear.  I just don’t cry on a regular basis.  However, there have been times, like when I had miscarriages or my marriage was ending, that I cried for days.  I remember after my third and final pregnancy loss falling asleep crying and waking up with fresh tears in my eyes.  I couldn’t even get relief from my sadness in sleep.

SouthOC
wrote on October 14 2009 @ 10:10 am: [report]

@Gingee:  I’m so sorry for your loss.  Finding your best friend must have been traumatic.

My oldest daughter (who had just turned 28) passed away last year on Christmas Eve.  I was in shock for about two weeks.  After all of the dust settled from the memorial service, I found myself feeling so alone, and missing her.  Everyone else was ready to move on, but I couldn’t.

I spent hours upon hours in my backyard mourning all of the things that would never happen as a result of her death.

Her 18 month old son would forget the sound of her voice, and the warmth of her touch.

She was the kind of person who had to experience everything the hard way, and often made horrible destructive choices.  I would never get to experience her reaching maturity and finding peace.

Long story a little shorter, I’m not usually a crier, but I’ve pumped out a few gallons mourning the loss of my daughter.

SCRMOM
wrote on October 14 2009 @ 10:18 am: [report]

@SouthOC: I’m so sorry to hear about your daughter.

SouthOC
wrote on October 14 2009 @ 10:31 am: [report]

@SCRMOM:  Thank you.

retro chic
wrote on October 14 2009 @ 11:32 am: [report]

Oh, gosh OC, I’m very sorry about your daughter. That’s a whole other kind of cry, and one I know well. Peace and patience to you.

Lexington
wrote on October 14 2009 @ 01:00 pm: [report]

I’m not really much of a crier- sometimes I wish I was because I think it would make things easier. Mostly it tends to be when I’ve reached a breaking point- I’ll have been wanting to cry for a while, been stressed out, and then I stub my toe or bump my head and then it all comes out.

I pretty much suppressed most of my tears after my mom died- deep deep depression will do that to you- but when my brother died, for a while after almost every little thing set me off. Especially the Spiderman cake at his funeral- I swear, they picked that just to have every person there in tears. I had to explain to one of my cousins (who’s a complete sweetheart) that it was ok that I was crying- he’s not used to seeing me break down like that. I did a lot of crying in the shower after that- I hate, hate, hate, people watching me cry- there are extremely few people I am ok with seeing me cry.

SouthOC
wrote on October 14 2009 @ 03:38 pm: [report]

@Retro Chic:  Thank you for the kind words.

@Lexington:  I’m so sorry for your losses.  That’s a lot for anyone to handle!

I hope you have read up on the grieving process, and take the time to go through all of the stages.

Five Stages Of Grief:  1. Denial and Isolation. 2. Anger. 3. Bargaining. 4. Depression. 5. Acceptance.

chelseafd
wrote on October 15 2009 @ 12:46 am: [report]

I cry about once a month around that time. Heck, today I cried after my professors posted my grades. I suppose its completely normal to cry often in college though. It’s a tough time.

Lolafalona
wrote on October 15 2009 @ 10:26 am: [report]

I have to admit I have been crying a lot lately, due to some life changing situations. But even I don’t think it has added up to 2hours this week, that seems excessive. I say I would have cried like 3 days this week maybe 5-10 minutes a time. I guess it depends on where you are in our life and what’s going. But 2 hours and 14 minutes seems a lot.

Lexington
wrote on October 15 2009 @ 04:38 pm: [report]

@SouthOC- Thank you! Yes, I have done a lot of work on dealing with my grief- but I cannot imagine having to go through the pain of losing a child. I don’t know your religion (or lack thereof) so I hope it won’t be offensive to you if I say you’re in my prayers.

evinJane
wrote on October 15 2009 @ 09:55 pm: [report]

I have cried less then 15min in the past 6 months, including crying with frustration when my idiot landlord claimed that I didn’t pay a security deposit so I wouldn’t get anything back. This is about average for me.

I agree with some others, I did more crying in collage than other time after childhood. Cried when they told me that I might have cancer (didn’t have cancer), cried over Physical Chemistry, and cried on the phone to my dad when I couldn’t figure out why I couldn’t make my brain do what I knew it could (turns out I have ADD, went on medication during P.Chem, then stopped again).
I think maybe I got the same kind of “training” as guys: even if you couldn’t win the fight, if you keep control of yourself you didn’t really lose either. On an emotional level, I view crying during an argument as weakness, even though logically I don’t necessarily view crying in general that way (in other people at least, I still feel a need to control myself).

The ultimate mark that I truly trust someone that I am able to cry in front of them. Although my relationship with my mother is better at 26 than it has been since I was about 10, I still won’t cry in front of her.

SouthOC
wrote on October 16 2009 @ 09:14 am: [report]

@Lexington:  Sweet.  Thank you!

onewriter
wrote on October 17 2009 @ 08:16 am: [report]

the interesting thing about crying (for male and female) is that happy tears are just salt water, but stress/sad tears are made up of salt, energy hormones, and other assorted junk that your body releases through sweat and in urine.  Crying is a good release becauase it purges your system a bit.  That being said, I have been going through a rough time lately and cry a lot…sometimes a little every day, but there’s NO WAY that I’m doing it for 2 hours a week every week.  Maybe average of about 45 min…

ashes
wrote on October 20 2009 @ 12:11 pm: [report]

Oh jeeze.  I cry a few times a month, but not 2 hours a week!  I cried like a baby when I found out I was going to be laid off from my job in January.  I was shopping for my ex’s son’s birthday (we were still together at the time) and I broke down looking at toys I couldn’t afford and called my Mom.  I cry at certain songs that play on the radio.  I cry when I get really angry (like at my new job when I’m literally yelled and cussed.)

I’ll tear up at sappy movies, but usually the more serious or frustrating stuff is about all that sets me off.

plasticrose
wrote on October 27 2009 @ 10:45 am: [report]

@amorsalado - just for the record, it is quite possible to die if you drink enough water in a short enough period of time. The excess fluid puts pressure on your brain and makes your red blood cells burst so you suffocate.

I cry a lot, but I seriously doubt it’s for two hours a week. Although recently I watched ‘The boy in the striped pyjamas’ and I cried a LOT, like, full-on sobbing for ten minutes or so after it finished.

MuchoMacho
wrote on October 27 2009 @ 11:09 am: [report]

once when i was 13 because my dog died.  when i was 18 i graduated basic training and got weepy as they handed my eagle globe and anchor ot me while ‘proud to be an american’ played.  my grandpa broke down at my flyout ceremony when we left for iraq, and that set me off a bit.  lost some buddies and read about a page long speach at their funeral in-country through tears.  little brother spent 8 days in a coma after a motorcycle wreck.  spent just about all 8 of them crying, then the 9th when he woke up, the eyes were wet too.  thats it.  oh i cried during shallow hal when jack black realized the little girl he really liked was a burn victim.  i might have been high, but thats still a super sad scene to me.