Has having children made you more emotional?

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Since having DS 6 mths ago I feel like my emotions have been opened up- everything touches me now whereas before I could have turned a blind eye.

I find myself crying at sad stories in the newspaper so much so that I avoid reading them now and I can relate so much more easily and have so much more empathy with people because I just think 'they were a baby like my DS once' !

Is this normal and does everyone feel this way? I hope I'm not confusing it with depression?

cook!!!

ok, but you're going to have me giving you virtual thumps on the back if you 'kokokok' anymore

It'll be in 'stuff' drawer. Or in an empty jam jar on the windowsill in the shed.

send your DH an emaik - pref one that should have lots of Ls in it - that might gee him up a bit!

although now I'm going to be more practical and suggest you cou1d use the number 1 instead as there isn't a who1e 1ot of difference between it and the l.

hahaha (ooooh that's easier) yes. must go and kook hunt. This is driving me koopy demented!

Good idea, smarty pants! 1ook it works!

Thanks Thumbwitch for translating for Gibberish.

I was being too male for such a thread.

'Chills down my spine" is indeed equivalent to "blubbing like a new mother".

PadDad! that's what I thought.

Shall we translate for her again?

Oi Gibberish!

"Chikks down my spine" is indeed equivakent to "bkubbing kike a new mother".

Aaaah, I seeee!

There was a thread the other day about being able to react in an emergency and thought that was where you were trying to post. Sorry!

rofk, PadDad! (or should that be rof1?)

Oy enough of the keyboard bu11ying!

• ok, will stop now...

I got more sentimental when they were little. But several years dealing with a chronically ill child has made me harder- am a lot tougher than I used to be.

well, so far tonight watching Comic Relief I have blubbed 5 times. And have been guilty of ostriching - there was no way I could watch the film they warned us about, I would have been in absolute bits and I was still holding DS (aged 15mo so too close for comfort)

Since having children, I can only watch glib, cheesy films and go for the 'lite' fiction option

Oh yes

Hell yes, I can cry at just about anything now and anything involving small children is a complete killer as far as my hormones go.
DH and the boys just stare at me like I'm totally crazy!

I used to wonder why on earth they used to warn you "parts of this report contain distressing scenes" on the news etc. They never seemed all THAT upsetting to me.

Then I had kids.

Have spent a lot of comic relief blubbing too.

Yes, and youngest dd is now 5, and I am STILL blubbing at everything.

It has nothing to do with life experiences, because I have been though some pretty tough ones since having the children - but I still can't talk about anything remotely sad without my voice breaking down.

Semi hysterical at times lol
I want to save the world and ensure my children have the perfect existence and it seriously upsets me when they can't but if you give them wings and roots it all works out.

am a total soft sap now, never used to blub at anything, now the smallest thing can set me off, blame the hormones.

Absolutely - can't watch the news, can't read most of my Stephen King collection, movies are limited to lite comedies, and I can't stand to think about anything remotely tragic happening to the children of the world - I'm just a big pathetic mess!!

I used to be the hard lady of dark films, gruesome literature and cynical remarks. Alas, I am now a marshmallow who weeps.

Love that bit of advice sorrento.