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What was the last thing you cried at?

238 replies

Shortbreadbaby · 16/12/2019 18:37

Today at the circus I was very emotional watching my niece enjoy the show and clap along. Then as the performers were singing Christmas songs at the end I released that they probably wouldn’t be seeing their family this year as the shows go on till Christmas Day. I just started weeping. Luckily it was fairly dark.
What was the last thing that made you cry?

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oncemorewithfeeling99 · 16/12/2019 20:54

The election results. Proper sobbing.

timeforawine · 16/12/2019 20:55

And when we found out a little boy we'd been raising money for cancer treatment had passed away, so so sad 😭

TinyPaws · 16/12/2019 21:05

The Aberfan episode of The Crown.

I'm pregnant and hormonal.

ThisLittlePiggyWentTo · 16/12/2019 21:15

Lewis Capaldi video - Ds wanted to watch it and I had no idea what it was about or how heart wrenching it was. Prompted a very good conversation with him about it all though. It hit me hard!

Much love to those on here in difficult situations when mine is so trivial next to them.

Flowers
SimonJT · 16/12/2019 21:21

Leaving my ‘nother mothers on Sunday afternoon, shes the closest thing I have to a parent (or family), she lives quite far away so I don’t see her as often as I’d like to.

Saturday morning when my son scored a mini try in rugby, Saturday evening when I arrived at my ‘nother mothers. I am a bit of a crier.

happystory · 16/12/2019 21:28

My new great niece this weekend, met her for the first time and my eyes just leaked...

user27495824 · 16/12/2019 21:39

I'm not usually a crier but I've cried a lot this week, post election results. I never expected Labour to win, so how much this has deeply affected me has been a shock. Jeremy's speech the morning of the election results broke me, and I haven't been able to watch anything with him in since. I have had many grieving friends, social workers, teachers, nurses, midwives... all been in contact to check in like you would when a mutual friend has died. I find some of these responses quite superficial in contrast.

ZincOxideEugenol · 16/12/2019 21:44

Earlier this evening when my two autistic adult DDs were hurling abuse at me whilst my mum sat there and watched. I hate my life, I wish I could run away and sod them all.

peachgreen · 16/12/2019 21:50

Since having DD and recovering from PND I deliberately avoid anything sad or bleak as I just don't want the negativity in my life. But I watched Christmas With The Coopers yesterday and cried because it was so lovely, and that was me gone for the next half an hour! Had a good old sob.

peachgreen · 16/12/2019 21:51

Oh give over user27495824, nobody has a monopoly on sadness.

Baguetteaboutit · 16/12/2019 21:57

Oh, I cry at everything. I cried watching Klaus yesterday 🙄 It's pathetic.

maddiemookins16mum · 16/12/2019 22:03

I cried in the car coming home tonight when they played ‘Driving Home for Christmas’. My mum loved it and she’d have it on when I ‘drove home for Christmas’ the last time before she died.
I really flippin miss her.

KenDodd · 16/12/2019 22:04

Election result. Never cried about politics before.

PrancerOnParade · 16/12/2019 22:06

Watching Looking for Alaska last night, the second last episode. I knew it was coming as I've read the book but something similar happened when I was at school so it brought back a lot of memories.

LucileDuplessis · 16/12/2019 22:07

User, the posters on this thread are replying to a factual question. Would you like them to invent a pretend response so that it fits more neatly into your view of things it is acceptable to cry about?

OhGrrrreat · 16/12/2019 22:08

Ds2 has had me in tears today. He's been so difficult lately and I have no idea why. After an hour of screaming and telling me he hates me he has finally gone to sleep and I've been sobbing because I don't know why he is this way and how I can get my lovely baby back. Ds1 has a UTI and been unwell today but the minute I give him attention ds2 plays up. They're not even toddlers! Ds2 is 7 fgs.

QuestionableMushroom · 16/12/2019 22:09

I cried today after giving an 8 week old baby it’s immunisations. Once they had left obviously. I had a miscarriage a few weeks ago and it’s very raw.

JacquettaW · 16/12/2019 22:09

Reading about the horrific deaths those poor Soviet POWs suffered during WWII Sad

ParkheadParadise · 16/12/2019 22:09

@ZincOxideEugenol
That sounds hard going.
Think we've all had a "run away " moment in our lives.
Hope things get better for youFlowers

MuthaFunka61 · 16/12/2019 22:10

Another one here who cried at the election results and now has a huge lump in her throat after reading all these posts.

I'm not much of a crier either ,believe it or not.

Here's Brew CakeFlowers for everyone.

SansaClegane · 16/12/2019 22:12

Last week I was lying in bed, unable to go to sleep, wishing I could just die. What made me cry was realising that I can't, that I have to carry on for the DC, that I have to live through this shitshow that is my life.

KenDodd · 16/12/2019 22:12

Friday morning there were post from The Samaritans doing the rounds on Facebook, concerned about people in real despair about the result of the election. It would be really interesting to see if there were a spike in suicide that day. Equally, I think had the result gone the other way there might not have been any less distress about the result, it would just be a different group of people suffering it. David Cameron was a fucking twat causing all this upset.

doubleshotespresso · 16/12/2019 22:13

This evening received a phone call informing me that EHCP plan panel for my child is cancelled again.
Card got declined shopping for groceries, got back in car and DC went into major meltdown and became violent.
Relentless stress - professionals getting paid incapable of responding to emails or calls and now my child will be in limbo still all through Christmas.
By the time I'm actually able to get a full time job I'll either be dead or retirement age.

losingsleep11 · 16/12/2019 22:14

Watching a trailer of the movie Arrival. Made me think of loosing my daughter like in the movie.

Beautiful film, about motherhood and the love for your child. However it is also about aliens lol

RoseMartha · 16/12/2019 22:15

Listening to Claire Crosby sing O Holy Night on youtube