do you ever have a little cry?

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do you? ever have a private little moment where you just cry for a bit and feel better afterwards?

I do very occassionaly and its not because of something specific, it just comes out.

am wondering if im alone

Its so strange, I used to be very like that and when I was pregnant I cried all the time. DS is 3 months old and the last time I cried (not including tears of joy) was when I was preg. I've been upset but now I feel like I just can't cry anymore. Very odd!

zyla, i think its one of the hardest parts of bring a mother, having to let go.

I cant imagine it, but its gets nearer and comes quicker each and every day.

Yes, I cry easily and often. I cried in front of DH and DDs on Saturday as I was talking about changing careers and didn't realise how strongly I felt about it.

No, but I do cry at sad stuff. Jeez, I was skrieking my eyes out at Glee t'other day (the sad episode with Sue - not giving away spoilers just in case anyone hasn't seen it).

Nothing wrong with crying in front of children as long as they are being explained reasons behind it, emotion like any other, I did cry in front of mine last week, he did ask"why are you crying" and when I tried to explain it to him, what for I felt for him, he just gave me a smile and said "don't be daft.

I just finished a little cry, my son is ill, I am a single parent but had arranged last night with my exDP (his dad) to come in and look to him today as I knew he wouldn't be at school. Rang him at 7am, yes he would come, of course he would. Never showed up, never phoned to say. I had a meeting with my boss and HR just two weeks ago about my absences from work due to being off with ill children, I am now being monitored and have already failed my '12 week target'. I am so disappointed but not surprised, doesn't matter how important my issues (or indeed his sons') they just never seem as important as his.

Managing to get in for a couple of hours this afternoon but will still be very unpopular with my bosses. Fed up trying to do everything on my own. Saying that I would never change my situation just wish I had someone to rely on sometimes.

Sorry, totally self-absorbed moment, it will pass!

I need a trigger (even if that trigger is 'hormones'), and it's never a 'little' cry, it always turns into a wailathon.

But yes, yes I do :(

My DH laughs at me because sometimes I like to look in the mirror when I cry and see how sad I look. He accuses me of wallowing and trying to make myself cry even more.

He's right, of course!

I cry for very little or no reason sometimes. It is cathartic, I always feel better afterwards. I think often it's due to me being tired though, and I do stress and worry about things so sometimes a cry just relieves the tension. It's also probably hormonal. Fortunately DH understands me and knows there is often no reason and gives me a hug and doesn't try to 'fix' me.

I don't cry that easily for actual big shocking/sad news tho, I'm usually more shocked and it takes a while for it to sink in.

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I am ugly when I cry, my face goes into this awful grimace, that is probably why I don't do it often, honestly not a pretty sight.

no very rarely

good thing really as it gives me terrible headache afterwards

Absolutely! I find that something very silly and irrational has me welling up and then I feel better. Sometimes I hadn't realised I needed to let it all out until afterwards.

Only when I watch Gladiator and Maximus falls over backwards and goes to meet his family in the afterlife

Oh I cry like a good un for no particular reason. But I do also cry at trivial things to release the pressure from bigger things - it's called my 'knees moment' from when I was resting my elbows on my mom's knees, slipped off and bawled my eyes out. Now if I'm all stressy, she says 'would you like to lean on my knees?'

I need a reason.

Although the other day it was the thought of losing the dog-which will happen although hopefully not yet as he´s only 5!

" i think its one of the hardest parts of bring a mother, having to let go."

Oh no-you mean that they really will grow up & want to leave?

ALL THE TIME :)) lol. I can cry because of songs, adverts, movies, books,PMT, the hubby, money etc. which is surprising as I am bit of a hard face cow sometimes

I cry at odd moments, but there's always a reason for it.

I always cry watching the news, that more than anything else because it's real and so much of it seems so avoidable and infuriating.

My last cry was at the weekend thinking about the recipe book of favourite meals I'm going to make for ds1. He's off to uni and I just had an image of him cooking the food I have cooked for him since he was small and that was it .... sob!

Sometimes I just feel like I need to have a cry - not about anything specific and I would feel a bit wrong "using" something sad that was real to do it. I find when these moments come on me (and they are not frequent, once every couple of months or so) singing "Two Little Boys" out loud will provoke sobbing. I can't actually get all the way through it.

I am more easily moved to tears of sympathy/compassion than I was before I had children, particularly about sad things to do with children (illness/bereavement).