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.

I don’t lie down on the floor to cry, but when I am hugely overwhelmed and anxious I do have to get down on the floor. Sometimes sitting curled up on the floor, other times laying in a yoga child’s pose with my head on the floor. I don’t know why I do it, but if I’m distressed I immediately have a strong urge to be on the floor.

Never. On beds, in beds and in the bath.

One time, that I'd prefer to forget, on a train. Thank god it was more or less empty.

I have definitely done lots of crying while sat on the floor and legs pulled up to chest - when I am at my most overwhelmed this feels like the most natural thing to do.

Yes, when the pain from an impacted wisdom tooth was so great that I just couldn't find anything else to do.

It didn't help with the pain!

Yes when my new Christmas tree stand wouldn’t fit together. I saw my son coming to get a hammer but I knew brute force wouldn’t make any difference. The sticky fake snow shedded and was trodden all over the carpet and up the stairs. I cried

Not lying on the floor but on my knees and then ultimately curling forward so my arms and head are down too. It’s rare but I do feel the need to drop down if I’m really, really distressed. I can’t really explain it.

Also a big fan of the sit down shower. Not often crying but when I’m generally sad.

No, I lie on the bed if I have to prostrate myself in unhappiness.

Which songs? I can't think of any - maybe I don't listen to the right songs if you hear "so many".

I think I'm being cruel but some of these replies are quite amusing.

I have never wailed on the floor - have crawled across it with mastitis to reach the phone to beg for help.

Maybe your floors are cleaner than mine - I would be analysing any sticky patches or noticing the state of the skirting boards.

I did some dramatic sobbing on my bed whilst listening to very sad song as a teenager though. Was wonderfully self indulgent, wallowing in misery - felt better afterwards.

Yes. Infidelity too

I’ve never cried after a break up, I was always the one breaking up with them so I only felt relief. 😅

Being called baby can be nice.

Not over a breakup
I did over my pet, I got a message to say she had died and my legs went from under me. Never had that happen before and thought it was just a thing you hear about
I also didn't realise you can cry so much your teeth throb

a big fan of the sit down shower. Not often crying but when I’m generally sad.

Oh yes, I have cried on the floor of the shower.

New man has tried calling me baby. We are in our 50s. I have pointed out I am definitely an adult. He seems to have changed to darling. I don't really call him anything - I just answer whatever he said.

I cannot imagine lying on the floor crying over him.

No. The only time I have ever cried on a floor was when my beloved gran died. I went and crouched with my back to the radiator in her kitchen (then one I always used to warm my bum on and talk to her about my day at school while I was growing up and she was cooking), just after the undertakers had left and taken her from her home for the last time.
No man will ever make me feel that kind of loss and pain, ever.

Yes, I cried properly with a bad back. Debilitating.

Not over a breakup but I have been so upset I've kind of crumpled to the floor sobbing.

Sort of. The night I got the phone call to say my granny had passed away. I had moved into her house when she moved into a nursing home so was living with lots of memories. Standing in the kitchen washing up at the sink and was hit by the grief and all the memories of a childhood spent in my nana's (now my) house, and i kind of sank to the floor and sat there crying for a while.... But no lying flat out in the floor bawling my lights out, no.

Does sat in a porch count? My bff 's sil was emigrating.. We booked out an Indian restaurant.. Closed to anyone else... Next morning my vile exh sent me pics of me in my posh attire asking if I had a nice night. I am not on sm so he must have trawled the other's FB pages for the pics. I felt very violated. And sat and cried...
Waited a long time for tears of joy when he died....

Yes, I just got so tired and emotionally exhausted by it all that as I started crying I first just sat down and lay done in the spot. It was in the doorway between the bedroom and the hall IIRC.

Absolutely, I cried on the floor and it was about a bloke. Love crying, it's so cathartic 😭 but I haven't cried for a long time.

I was called babe, and then I did call him babe/baby back 😁 #onlygodcanjudgeme

Here's a few for starters.

Amy Winehouse, You Know I'm No Good, "I cried for you on the kitchen floor."
Natalie Imbruglia, Torn, "I'm cold and I am shamed, Lying naked on the floor."
Olivia Rodrigo, Good 4 U, "Crying on my bathroom floor."
Will Young, Crying on the Bathroom Floor
Taylor Swift, I Knew You Were Trouble, "Now I'm lying on the cold hard ground"

(I suppose a couple of those could be metaphorical.)

On the floor no. On my bed/on the bus/in the office toilets - yes.

You specifically asked about crying?

I, and others up thread, seem to have a thing for being on the floor when overly distressed.

In which case, yes many times I've laid on the floor when I'm really upset. It helps. Don't know why, but it does.

Not personally. A good friend of mine did once drive back to her parents' house and collapse sobbing into her mum's arms on the kitchen floor after breaking up with an abusive piece of shit though.