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I don't know about men not crying. I've seen some men who cry all the time - almost more than some women I know.
My Dad cries easily. My mother doesn't. Not half as much anyway/ I can't even tell you how many times my Dad cried. Granted he has had emotional and depression problems for as long as I can remember. He cried for attention mostly. That's even what his psychiatrist in the psychiatric ward told us. He was an attention whore. He'd cry in church because I'd managed to convert a friend of mine. He'd cry at a B-day party because he was so happy that so many people were there just for him. He cried because MY bird died. I just was dry eyed and in shock. I suppose his crying prevented me from crying because as we buried my bird that I'd had for 7 years all I could think about is why is my Dad blubbering like that? He'd grab the kleenex box and sit there with my mom watching Skylark and sniffing and blubbering half way through it. It was embarressing in public when he'd cry over something that was simply touching. It was creepy when he'd blubber over a romantic movie while my brother and I looked at each other in confusion because neither one of us were crying but our parents were in GRIEF. Maybe at the time we just didn't understand the depth of some emotions because we hadn't had a lot of life experience. It was more than disconcerting as a kid with a Dad who was an attention whore and used crying half the time to get attention.
I wish my Dad didn't cry so much.
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