Have you ever lain on the floor and cried?

[DuesToTheDirt]

About some bloke? (Or girl?)

It somes up in so many songs, lying on the bedroom/bathroom/kitchen floor crying after a breakup. Is it just me that has never done this? Am I cold and heartless? Or is it another thing that people do in songs but never in real life (like calling each other "baby" - actually I had a foreign boyfriend who tried that one, and I said, No, Absolutely not, People only do that in songs, I am not a baby!"

Just wondering.

Not on the floor no ,but I remember being very upset by a couple of breakups in my single days.

Yes when I found out about my husband cheating, it brought my whole world crashing down, not knowing what would happen to my children, moving house / destroying their little family unit.

Oh yes, I remember being very upset. Perhaps I lay on my bed and cried, I don't remember. But never on the floor!

@DiveBombingSeagull

Well not on the floor, but I've definitely sobbed my heart out on my bed a few times. Main one would be when my XH cheated and we split up. It was 19 years ago but the searing pain is still a little there, funny as I can't even really remember him that well!!

When exh left I probably did. I’d take dc to school fully composed, get home and cry uncontrollably at random points of the day. I’m glad I live in a detached house so no neighbours heard.

No. I've only had one serious relationship though and he was abusive so I was relieved more than anything when we split up.

Yes, the first time I fell truly head over heels in love, and then he broke up with me. I cried so much I couldn't drive home for several hours. I cried inconsolably on and off for about two days.

Then we got back together, and eventually I fell fully out of love with him and saw how much of a knob he was.

Ah, but I need to know whether you people were doing your crying on the floor!

Listen to a few Motown songs..
Every female in the songs is just about called Baby.
Yes I've actually fallen to the fall and sobbed and sobbed and sobbed.. couldn't physically get up..

Yes, absolutely. The bathroom floor, even.

In my bed. At the wheel of my car (I pulled into a lay by first.) Not the floor.

I did cry on the kitchen floor in London when a bowl dropped and broke. (Eternal Beau, it was.) It wasn't really about the bowl, it was about being so broke and not knowing what to do with my life and things like that. The bowl was just the last straw.

Yes. For similar reasons to some of the above posters. Betrayal can do that to you.

My neighbour calls his partner baby, I cringe when I hear it. They're both 50.

Yes. Probably got the idea from all those song lyrics ...

I dont get the "baby" thing. Lots of people use it and are called it. You're being deliberately obtuse.

Does sitting on the floor and crying count? Done that a few times. Didn't have the strength left to get to the sofa/bed.

Yes. When I really thought I couldn't go on.

I was barely out of my teens, pregnant, fiance had been getting together with my best friend behind my back, I was thrown out of our shared house and ended up in the arse end of nowhere without a car, friends or family help in a different country. I will never forget just how desperate everything felt and I didn't want to get up off that floor for a long time.

I pulled through in the end.

Yes, once, at Burning Man. I was so hot and so unreasonable and that heady mixture of hungover yet still drunk, I couldn’t find my bicycle, I was hungry but didn’t want any of the things we had to eat, I wanted to home etc etc. I didn’t know what to do with all the emotions so I just laid down in the dust and sobbed. In that moment I knew exactly how overstimulated toddlers feel when they just throw themselves to the ground.

You must know a different type of people from me (age? location?) - no one I know calls their partner baby.

Nope, never cried on the floor. I very rarely cry when I'm upset anyway.

Also have never called a grown adult "baby"

Yes, a couple of times during absolute broken hearted despair. Not for many years though, thankfully.

I once sank to the kitchen floor very dramatically weeping. The dog came and jumped on me and I saw how gross the floor was, and I gave myself a kick up the arse and got up instead of being a fat Ally McBeal sobbing on some dried up ketchup. Not done it since.

Yes, outside on the ground, but not sure about in the house. There was a time when I was crying so much that I don't remember.

Only time I've laid on a floor and cried my eyes out was when I had sciatica and got down to put a washing on and couldn't get back up.

No like above the only time I've laid on the floor crying was when I tore my ligaments in my foot and could not get back up. Going downstairs on my bum was a novelty as an adult.

Not sure how I managed to get home the night before but I did, amazing what alcohol can numb!