Does anyone --else-- sometimes cry after sex?

[fuzzybunny]

Please share.......

erm. no. Why would you cry? Assuming it is not abuse of any kind, of course.

no... sorry.

I have done once or twice, usually when very hormonal.

Yes, I have done. Overwhelmed feeling - can't really describe it!

I understand this - sometimes I feel really emotional/overcome (ahem) and the tears leak out! Usually when its been particularly close.

yes,but especially when I'm pregnant I find. Heightened hormones and emotions I guess...it's just a release like laughing.

Yes, I do sometimes. It's just a release of emotion. Not necessarily a bad crying. Google 'release emotion crying after sex' - it's totally normal. (Which isn't to say everyone does it, just that you're really not abnormal if you do)

Yeah i used to with my ex h. But he wasn't capable of making love and was obsessed with having sex, even if i didn't want to.

I understand other responses are about feeling overwhelmed in a good way rather than a bad way.

Are your tears, happy tears or sad tears?

Very much happy tears.

It has happened a few times now, only since having babies. No control over it, but would kind of like to no why as this time DH looked at me like I must be having an affair or something to be getting so upset in such an unusual time.

No but my DH quite often gets a fit of the giggles!

Ivor

I think happy tears, or sad that it's over.

I like the release of emotion idea.

5inthebed - I thought he was really weird the first time he burst out laughing after he had ....

Can make you paranoid so I wouldnt do it personally !

Hi fuzzybunny, I do sometimes.
It has only happenned with my current partner though and I didn't know what was happenning at first. It does feel like a rush of released emotion, I feel overwhelmed with the emotion - feeling all spiritual/vulnerable/overcome with the closeness.
I am a bit weird perhaps..

Used to happen to me. Not any more - sex not so intense physically these days.

Do still get tearful sometimes, but it's usually because I get overwhelmed by love for DH. Think about all our years together and hope for many more.

Yeah once in a while if I've had an especially intense orgasm I find that tears are welling up in my eyes. It's just some weird limbic response. Overwhelmed with emotion is the right way of putting it. When it happens I usually feel like laughing euphorically at the same time.

In fact sometimes when I orgasm I do laugh euphorically too, without the tears.

Sorry for TMI.

Yeah lots of times post orgasm but only after intercourse (as opposed to post other generated orgasms)

Once. My one time achieving an orgasm. I was so overwhelmed I sobbed frantically. DH assumed he'd broken me somehow.

I should really namechange ... yes, me too, only with DH, and it's rare. The first time it happened we hadn't been together that long and he thought I was about to finish with him! It's very much a happy thing though. Weird.

I've cried in a good way - rarely - after the most amazing, soul-lifting sex.
I've also cried during and after marital rape

I did both kinds of crying with the XH, not on the same occasion, obv.
Yes, I would say "release of emotion" ;)

Yes agree on both counts. The happy, OMG-that-was-fantastic-I-can't-even... release of emotion thing, (DP was really worried and kept asking if he'd hurt me, it didn't help that I couldn't speak!) and also once with XP where I wanted to stop halfway through but didn't say anything, mainly because I didn't think he would stop anyway, and then it felt like he was raping me (I say 'felt like' because he didn't know that I wanted him to stop) - but yeah I cried after that. He didn't notice. :(

Yes ... after very intense wonderful sex. Pretty sure it's a limbic response .. but it's wonderful :)

Like Bertie - both. I've cried during because I was so in love with someone. And I've cried afterwards because I so didn't want sex with husband and I was just enduring it because I felt I should. I've stopped doing that now.