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When was the last time you cried?

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Grumpbum123 · 16/12/2018 17:46

I haven’t cried in 9 years, feel like a good cry would be beneficial but I can’t. I know that I have some emotional issues but I was wondering when was the last time you cried?

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SoleBizzz · 16/12/2018 23:13

I have tears rolling but never cry/sob. I need to. It is good for us..

Zofloraqueen27 · 16/12/2018 23:22

On hearing the news that my husband has terminal bowel cancer. An operation soon might help. I cry when I am sure he can’t hear me - in the shower - or outside. It’s hard being brave and positive ALL the time when your heart is breaking.

DogMamma · 16/12/2018 23:49

@Zofloraqueen27 I've had cancer it's ok to let your dh see you cry....he will know you're not trying to be brave for him all the time, will make things feel a little normal for him to be the brave one and support you it's a hard hard place to be but I always appreciated being able to maintain as much of me as I could everyone else flapping and being upset about it and me being the strong one is the norm for me in life generally so it was great when I could keep that part of myself during my sickness at times thoughts are with you and all the family x

LadyB49 · 17/12/2018 00:36

First marriage i cried every day for 22 years because I was so miserable.

Second marriage of 18 years I rarely cry and never because I'm unhappy. Last week when I fell in the bathroom and hurt myself, that brought the full sobs and snot. . 4 years ago when my dear sis in law and wonderful friend lost her battle with breast cancer, I had a half hour meltdown and then gathered myself. I have several chronic conditions of pain and insomnia..... Occasionally it gets a bit much and I have a wee weep.

Zofloraqueen27 · 17/12/2018 03:15

Dogmamma - thank you. Flowers

FlyingMonkeys · 17/12/2018 03:35

I'm not much of a cryer but I've found if everyone is out of the house I can stick on a Disney/Pixar film if I'm feeling overwhelmed and 'let it go!' 😶 Possibly mental, but I think it's the snivelling alongside something that's light-hearted that gives me a release vs full on sobbing when it feels inappropriate. Plus once it's out of my system I get the buck up feel good factor at the end...

TamiTayorismyparentingguru · 17/12/2018 06:19

Zoflora I completely understand where you’re coming from. (Cancer is one of the things we’ve walked through in the last few years.) Silent crying in the shower became my speciality. Flowers

GreyhoundzRool · 17/12/2018 06:28

Earlier this week. My mum died on Wednesday- she was very poorly but didn’t expect her to go quite this soon

Napssavelives · 17/12/2018 06:30

I cried every day last week! I think I’m doing well and not cried since Friday. In my defence I’m pregnant and hormonal

Feb2018mumma · 17/12/2018 06:33

Been too tired to cry for months so was shocked I cried last night... Managed thanks to my lovely husband, I said I hadn't had break from baby (except work and a operation his whole life) and couldn't cope much longer, it was killing me and he said I should think of him and how hard it must be for the baby to prefer me... Basically I tell him I'm depressed and can't face another day and he made it about him!

Waytooearly · 17/12/2018 07:16

I've been crying a lot lately. A whole range of things--some situational ans some just random, like beautiful music. Then feel fine the next moment.

I never used to be like this. Is it something hormonal? (I'm 47.)

Waytooearly · 17/12/2018 07:17

Flowers to you Zoflora

Riddo · 17/12/2018 07:51

On Friday at my Mum's funeral.

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MacarenaFerreiro · 17/12/2018 08:04

I am struggling with my mental health at the moment which is a very new thing for me. I have cried more since Friday than I have in the last three years put together. It's not fun.

Proseccoagain · 17/12/2018 16:21

This morning at yoga I was very tearful but didn't dare cry out loud in front of everyone. We finished with a visualisation/relaxation session and had to imagine we were a star full of shimmering light, surrounded by millions of stars. All I could see was DH and me, holding hands and flying through all the stars together. DH died in February, and it was like he was showing me where he was.Welling up now just thinking about it. My eyes fill up several times a day just thinking about DH and missing him so much.

TheDogsMother · 17/12/2018 16:30

This morning I welled up. Not full on sobbing, just a bit teary. I was looking at DDog who is getting old and wondering if he would be with us this time next. He is a terrier who has always been an absolute handful so seeing him vulnerable makes me sad.

MyBreadIsEggy · 17/12/2018 16:32

Friday.
I’m in treatment for PTSD, and Friday was a particularly difficult session.
Usually I’m fine, but that session was awful Sad

WhoTookTheChristmasCookie · 17/12/2018 17:09

The other day I had a few tears at the end of Home Alone (of all the things to cry at.)

I had a quiet cry yesterday after receiving a beautiful Christmas letter from a family friend. It's the first Christmas since my mum passed in September, so particularly tough.

Last time I properly sobbed was going through my mums belongings after she passed and of course her funeral; I kept everything together so well until I walked through the door of the crematorium- cried like a baby the whole service.
Physically couldn't stop myself to the point that (when the curtains closed) I had to be helped onto my feet by family and friends and practically carried outside.

81Byerley · 17/12/2018 17:15

Yesterday when I tipped a whole cup of tea over my knitting...

tinytemper66 · 17/12/2018 21:12

Yesterday, today and every day for the foreseeable future 😔

Calzone · 17/12/2018 21:19

I cry a lot.

But I cried o Friday when our good friend died. 😭😭😭

Maryann1975 · 17/12/2018 21:20

I struggled to stop myself crying walking to pick the dc up from school this afternoon. I was thinking about all the crap Christmas’s we’ve had (fil died of terminal cancer over Christmas, pet put to sleep on 24th dec, moving house, dh was in the raf and posted to Iraq, raf buggering up shift Rotas so he always had to work even if he was meant to be off - I know some of them are pathetic, but Christmas is important i me). I cried worrying what might happen this year.

Accountant222 · 17/12/2018 22:10

I'm not a cryer, but on 10th January this year my lovely friend lost her 28 year old son to a brain tumour, it broke me and I was only one of the neighbours

Goingonandonandon · 17/12/2018 22:12

I cried watching Les Miserables last week, before that it was 2hen my mother died last February.