Last time you've cried?
 

Personally, I haven't had to cry since my senior year of high school, which is getting to be about three years ago, not counting tears that result from yawning or laughing.

I suppose I simply haven't been stuck in any particularly depressing or emotional situations during this time. Once in a while I've thought that I a little cry would feel satisfying, and a couple times I have gotten to be pretty choked up, but I've always been able to hold it in. There is a stigma against crying, for men in particular, but it's to the point that I sometimes half-seriously think I could use an emotionally intense experience so I can bust out with a good, well deserved cry.

I cant remember, I certainly havent cried since I was 11.

yesterday.....With the divorce and impending wedding I seem to cry at least once a day :lol:

I have a son who has an alphabet soup of diagnoses - ADD, ADHD, OCD, CD, ODD - he is also diagnosed as brilliant, creative, conflicted ... he occasionally interacts with me in a way that through our congruence of innate nature is deeply hurtful especially considering the fact that I am now separated from my wife of 24+ years. I cry when he does that.

Which is so stupid, I can hardly stand it.

For a long time I bought into that crap, and I deadened myself to the world. Finally, with some real soul-searching work, I started opening up. I gave up that I shouldn't have emotions, and started letting them show.

Movies and songs get me all the time. Usually not to the point of full-on boo hooing, but I mist up for sure.

i dunno when

yeah, there is a stigma, I pretty much grew up thinking "big boys dont cry" - and mostly definitely not in front of anybody if you do. There have been times I have felt like I might cry, but I can't, something in me holds it back. probably the last time I cried that I can remember was when I was 9/10 and people at school had made fun of me for being fat, and I told my dad about it and I was upset, and he told me not to be a baby - and started called me "fatso" "fat pig" and so on "to toughen me up" apparently. I cried and tried remember keep asking him to stop but he wouldnt and I got kind of hysterical in the end, and tried to hug him, but he threw me off.

I dont remember any time after that I cried, but I might have done, but Im pretty sure not since I was 11 definitely. I remember when I was 14, on christmas day, with my dad again, he blew up (cos I didnt buy him an expensive present, and I wasnt interested in this lego kit he bought me) and he started telling me how much he hated me, how I was a piece of shit, I was evil, I had destroyed the whole family, etc etc etc... and I remember trying to cry to make him feel sorry for me, and he could tell I was faking it, and then I just thought "wtf, why do I bother"... I remember v clearly thinking that it would be nicer in a foster home, I'd have more friends etc etc.

sometimes when I think about it I get mad at myself that I dont hold the hate I felt then inside myself still, but it all just broke up,,, and I suppose if you only think of the worst times... there were a lot of good times too you discount. I think certainly from that age I never loved him, but i cant really hate him either. One time I quoted something back to him he said to me that night (he said he would burn all the photo's of me and forget he ever had a son) and HE started crying about it... I suppose maybe he felt guilty about it, but I dont see why he has any reason to cry about it,,, he shouldnt have said it if he doesnt want it to be said.

I guess, Ive alwats been quite an emotionally distant person, I honestly dont feel that Im not in touch with my emotions, I just dont have very strong emotions at all.

About two weeks ago I was listening to "Save Me" by Queen and I just couldn't get my ex out of my head. I teared up a bit, but didn't full out bawl because I was driving.

Before that it was when I watched Ray, when he first started going blind. I can imagine how I would feel if that were one of my children, and that really got to me.

after watching 21 grams, there was just somethin about that movie...

Today. I put my dog down today. :(

I tear up a bit sometimes.

The last full fledged cry was a couple of years ago when I learned (quite by accident) that a good friend of mine from high school was killed in a car accident. I didn't go the services, but I wrote her mother and father a letter to express my condolences and somewhere in the middle of it, I just broke down.

The last time I cried was February 30th. A good friend of mine went to Korea on a year tour with the air force. I'm going to miss him :( We talk often and email, but it's not the same. Now I feel like having another cry....

last time i creid was 2 years ago... from being kicked really hard in the balls... christ that hurt...
before that, i hadn't cried in a few years, don't really remember

Last night. I had a pretty rough week, my emotions were on a rollercoaster ride, and I couldn't help crying sometimes when particular thoughts would sneak up on me.
Let's just hope I don't have another week like that. :S

Hmmm....it's been a long time since I had a full on good cry. I've gotten misty eyed at the movies a couple of times (Finding Neverland comes to mind). I think the last time I really cried was right after my brother died and my husband told me he wanted a divorce (which was last July). Thankfully, it was probably just the stress of my brother's death and some unresolved issues in our marriage that caused the want of the divorce...we are still happily together.

Right now. The worst I've ever felt. Hard to believe you'll ever feel good again sometimes.

Yesterday afternoon, while reading comic books. I was behind on my reading a bit, and when I got to the end of Fables #33 and found out who the killer was and why, I lost it. I'm easily affected by well made fiction, and get emotionally attached to well-defined characters.

My classes have learned that it's really nothing to get concerned about when Miss Gilda loses it while reading the ending of Lyddie (for example) because that's just how I'm wired. I'll cry when something affects me deeply, and I'm never ashamed of having done so.

I cried last night. I'm having terrible side effects from some meds & I couldn't make like everything was fine anymore.

Quite recently.

It's been a long time- three years. Cried about how unfair the world was. I've since grown up, and I've not experienced anything since then that made me cry. I do get a little misty eyed at the end of some "feel good" movies though when everyone's reunited and stuff.

edit- cried at policemen's memorial service.

Earlier this week- had an irrational fight with SO and got angry, and he grabbed me and shook me and yelled at me because I was being so irrational (disclaimer- this is what I have asked him to do when I get like that, because it's the only thing that takes me out of the irrationality). I cry when I get upset, but fortunately I'm not upset that much anymore :)

Three or four times in the last three hours, while watching Spanglish at the discount movie theater. If I keep this up, Ill be posting every other day, so this'll be the last one.

Today I cried while doing my physical therapy exercises and trying to get my knee to bend. It won't bend enough and I have to make it. The last time I can remember crying before that was January 12th, when I was lying face down in the snow just after injuring said knee.

I usually cry for emotional reasons though.

When my wife didn't get into Berkeley for law school, I cried cause she cried.(couple weeks ago)

Hate to see her sad..

i cry during movies if i'm watching them alone, especially when i'm watching them drunk, yay!

I haven't actually cried for a while, but everytime the girlfriend gets upset and cries, I get all misty. There is just something about a girl crying. IT just kills me.

Once in a while I'll tear up, sometimes from stress, sometimes from music. The last time was a few weeks ago, when I was driving home at night listening to Nine Inch Nails "Hurt."

cried yesterday in the midst of a panic attack about school and homework.

Saturday night.

It was my parents 50th wedding anniversary. They had a big party, 200+ people, and I was the MC. Had a beautiful speech/toast prepared. Practiced it so I wouldn't break down, but alas, the moment got the best of me. I did make it about three quarters of the way through before my voice started cracking and I had to stop and wipe the tears to deliver the last several lines. Everyone told me later that they were crying too so I figured it must have been a good speech.

Otherwise, only when there is some really sad story about someone's kid dying. That always gets to me.

I well up watching movies all the time... especially when it is father/son stuff. I suspect this is because I had a lot of unresolved issues with my Dad but he died before I could address them.

The last time I truly out and out had a good bawl was last fall. My wife and I had a little stumble in our relationship and part of our discussions lead to many tears on both our parts.

I cired about 3 months ago, when my ex left me. I usualy repress my emotions, cause I never know how im gonna act. But I cried and it felt good. I cried for my heart.

I used to be the biggest crybaby in the world, then I came to the realization that the reason why I was crying was out of frustration because I didn't know how else to express what I was feeling and what would make me angry and since nice girls didn't get angry -- I'd cry. Somewhere along the line I figured out that being a nice girl was way overrated, and it was indeed OK to get angry. Now, I just get angry. Anger is much better than blubbering. :D

Crying for emotional reasons? That ship has long sailed. Nothing will ever be worse than losing the only person in your life who you could and would talk to and nothing else deserves tears.

hmm probably just a few weeks ago when I found out my mom and adopted dad (he adopted my sister and I and raised us) are getting seperated, it had been a crappy week at work, and things were just all going wrong. But they are getting much better now.

Christmas- but what is a family holiday without a family fight? There is no fun in that. :hmm:

Kind of appropriate that these two threads were right next to each other. For me, it was while writing this:
http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthr...=1#post1705999

stuck in the desert with my relatives on bad terms with my significant other and feeling really miserable

It must have been last semester in University. A friend and I had been working on an assignment together, though the assignment was an individual assignment. We handed it in, then the next day we received an e-mail from the course co-ordinator asking us to come in and discuss 'similarities' between our assignment.

Now we knew what we were doing wasn't entirely frowned upon, but they didn't enjoy it. It wasn't cheating because we didn't look at each others work, we just did it together.

But I'm one of those people who always assumes the worst of the situation, and it would definately be considered an academic offence. Now I go to university about 3000 km away from home, and my meeting was the next day, and I couldn't talk with my parents about it. I couldn't get any sleep I was so worried about the result. I called my mom at about 4 am, and started off ok, but just broke down mid-conversation because I was so worried about getting kicked out of university and such.

It was insanely stressful. We went in for our meeting and were told that we 'excessively collaborated'. So the end result was getting -100% on the assignment, and getting our names added to a list (the assignment was only worth about 2% of my mark, and the list is just a list of names so that if anything like this ever happens again, the punishment would be much more severe).

about a year and a half ago, night before I taught for the first time, didn't sleep at all, was nervous as hell.

yesterday, dropping off a girl at the train station in florence that i fell in love with during our week-long vacation in italy


definitely have no cried like that... ever, almost uncontrollably so when i tried my damndest to hold it in, even during funerals and such -- weird, right??

Watching the news earlier this week about the 4 RCMP officers killed in Alberta.

Last night at work. I sat down on the bathroom floor and just sobbed. I had an endstage AIDS patient who after 22 years was just diagnosed with large cell lymphoma that day. So he is essentially a dead man. It just got to me. He was extremely needy, his temp wouldn't stay down (103.8) no matter what I did and my other patients were getting neglected. I felt like a crappy nurse and just felt very powerless.

I cried just after I finished my first lesson in a classroom with actual people. Like you, I was nervous, didn't sleep, and, in addition, couldn't keep my breakfast down. The lesson went fine, but I just had to release the tension I had built up, and crying is how I do that.

Last time was about two weeks ago, then twenty-eight days before that and twenty-eight days before that and twenty....

What can I say? I guess I'll be due for one in about two weeks.

Up until last month, I hadn't been able to cry for about 2 years. I needed to, but I literally wasn't able. But since last month, after a rejection from this girl I really, REALLY like, I've been able to cry, and I've more than made up for the past two years.

The last time I cried was, I believe, Friday. I got my tonsils removed last week, and I've been in a ridiculous amount of pain since. So on Friday, I was hurting and just generally exhausted, and I cried.

I hear you girl. lol

My relationship has been shitty for the past few weeks and I find myself crying each time I have to deal with something nasty. I hate crying, it makes me feel so weak, but at times, it's the only thing that I can do to make me better.

I hope that he isn't going to school.

I cry every morning when i realise that i'm in my grad year, i have weeks left and more work than i can shake a stick at. But the crying will stop once i'm done, then i'll never be sad again.

although i did cry when my dad had a heart attack a month ago, touch and go for alittle while but he pulled through and hopefully will make a full recovery. Fingers crossed.

Tonight. My best friend no longer has any time for me.

last cried 11-30-04 when my son hit me in the back of the head with a barstool. felt stupid crying on the phone asking my 84 yr old mother if i could spend the night with her. ain't life great?

Every day this week. My girlfriend broke up with me over the weekend while I was away on vacation. Every day since has been very difficult. Live and learn I guess.

I cried when I saw my friend layin in the hospital bed as he looked and me and told me he'd never walk again.. this was about a week ago. I cried the other night because.. well.. I don't want to get into it.

3 nights ago, i cried in my dreams i actually remember it quite well, then i woke up with tears in my eyes. I guess im not venting any emotions or something so i do so in my sleep? Ahh well ^^

8-11-03 The day I left for college the first time. Vanessa, one of my best friends at the time came over very early that morning to see me before I left, and as I was loading the car she began to tear up and it occured to me we probably wouldn't be such good friends after I left and I just lost it.

Today. A wonderful co-worker & good friend was killed on her way home from work this afternoon. Its safe to say I will cry tomorrow as well.

Cried really hard last night, for about an hour. Stress, insecurity, loneliness, general sadness about several things... you name it... it was all feeding on my tears last night. But sometimes I do just really need to be alone and let it all loose, feel as weak as can be, cry very hard and feel that emotion moving through my body. Then call up a girl friend and have them understand, and laugh about it. :)

In general I cry at least once a week if not twice or three times. It's not something I choose, it just happens, and only in private... everyone else (except my boyfriend) sees me as being fairly unemotional. But I sort of like being able to let loose alone, it helps me cope with things building up deep down inside. Volcanic eruptions of the soul, or something...

And let me ask, does anyone else cry more when they're in a relationship? I find that if I'm totally and completely single, I cry very rarely. But for some reason being in a relationship makes me much more emotionally vulnerable and expressive, and so I cry much more often. The only other thing that causes me to cry are family issues, when they're in my face... but that's not as often as it used to be. So basically being in a relationship really opens me up inside... this is both good and bad, I guess.

On the plane home two nights ago. It wasn't a good sobbing cry, but it helped.

23 years ago.

Just a few days ago I was in Oklahoma City and went to the memorial at the Murrah Building. They have a lawn set up with chairs on it for each person who died in the attack. Each chair has a name etched in to it of the person it represents. Some of the chairs are small, and they represent the children who died that day.

Seeing it like that, seeing a monument to each individual, seeing the children, really brought home the tragedy of that day. It was quite emotional for me.

I'll cry more often when I'm in a relationship. I think being in a good relationship makes us feel safer, makes us feel more like it's ok to be vulnerable and let the stress out, because we have the feeling that there's someone there to catch us if we go too far.

Hmm Gilda, I like that. :) Someone to catch me if I go too far. If I'm not in a relationship, then I have to stay in control of my feelings all the time since I know it's just me taking care of me... so what you say makes sense.

Then again, you know, I think I only really, truly cry (like whole body-shaking, on the floor because I have no strength, almost hyperventilating) when I'm alone. I've only been able to do this in front of other people a few times, but it's sort of like throwing up, or perhaps having an orgasm... something I hate/love doing, takes so long to get there, but once I'm going in that direction, nothing could stop it.

I feel so vulnerable when these things happen that I'm afraid of anyone seeing how helpless I am, or that they are going to feel uncomfortable with me letting loose like that. And I've never seen anyone else cry like that, so I feel a bit freakish when it does happen, like I'm going insane because it just aches and aches so much.

Three days ago

Two to three hours ago.

Yesterday, as I was writing about my SO meeting my parents.

Take your pick. . . I'm sure that it hasn't been more than a couple of days, probably Saturday night really.

I keep things bottled up so badly while I'm in public that when I get home, and I'm alone, small things will key me off and I'll let it out, I really don't have any choice, that lump in my chest is so big that nothing else fits anymore.

And if you don't like it that I'm a guy and I cry, hell with you, I'm not doing it for your approval and I don't need your approval to justify it :) besides, would you rather I turned into one of those "quiet people, he must have just snapped" types?

I lost my wife of 17 years to cervical cancer in December, and I believe I have cried at least once everyday since then. Whether for her, the kids, or me. Mostly for her.

liquidlight, you don't need my approval :) but I think it's great that you are able to cry so often. The same thing happens to me... small things seem to have more power than really big things. And yeah, I'd rather not snap, either (at least, I only do so once a week instead of once a year or decade).

Crying does a soul good. I think there's nothing to be lost from allowing oneself (learning?) to be utterly vulnerable and broken, to realize how fragile we are.

Camus: "Live to the point of tears."

Yesterday morning (4-1-05)... girlfriend of four years broke up with me about 5 months ago, saying that we grew apart.. we've kept in touch every other week or so, but I'm getting to the point where I'm realizing that--despite loving her as much as I do--it's very hard not to have the kind of relationship we used to have, and that with how frustrated the current friendship is making me if it's worth it to continue on with the friendship (I know.. that sentence carried on and on and on.. haha).

I know that it was 5 months ago that she broke up with me.. I'm doing pretty good, I think.. still cry at least once a week though... it'll just take time to fully get over her, though, I guess.

I had a private cry last night while looking through some pictures of my orange tabby who I'd had for 11 years, and died August of 2003. This morning LPM and I bought a little kitten. :)

I cried today while listening to Cat Power and thinking about someone very special who's gone now.

I haven't teared up since last January when the girlfriend moved up North.

I'm not the most emotional guy. I think she's the last person I've cried for since I was little.

I cried last night when my relatively new SO told me he wanted to grow old with me. It was the singularly most beautiful thing anyone has said to me in a long time.

I cry when I think of her being sick and how much it hurt him. And when I worry that he wishes that I was her, even though I don't really believe he does.

I have turned intoa bucket of emotions. I hadnt cried for years till my girlfreind went to north carolina for school. Then the first few months, id bust out crying out of no where. I've gotten in better control recently, but we ended up breaking up recently, and that brought it back on.

Last night. I had a terrible migraine attack. :|

its been long enough that i can't remember. there has been many situations where i've thought that i SHOULD be crying, but for whatever reason i've been unable to. i can remember times i've felt guilty because i didn't have the desire to cry.
when everybody around you is crying and your not, it somehow makes you feel less human, like your no longer a participant in life. when my best friend shot himself, i remember it being like that. i think that feeling is actually worse, than the feeling that caused it.

I have been crying more than I would like to. Seems like alot of little things make me cry. Could be a song on the radio, a hug from one of my kids, or just nothing. It is horrible and I hate being this way.

when I found out my dad might move to Wyoming without my mom and that he'll probably try to take my little brother with him... I'd rather have my brother live with me than have my dad have him.

Last month, i cried. My ex took my heart, ripped it out, and fed it to me; piece by piece. Life is crazy like that.

3 days ago. Had to do with an ending of a friendship and a lack of friendships.

Yesterday, pretty damn hard... found out my grandma has pancreatic cancer and will die soon. She's practically a second mom to me, and I am not ready to let go of her presence in my life. God it sucks.

I've gotten misty eyed at the movies a couple of times (Finding Neverland comes to mind). I think the last time I really cried was right after my brother died and my husband told me he wanted a divorce (which was last July). Thankfully, it was probably just the stress of my brother's death and some unresolved issues in our marriage that caused the want of the divorce...we are still happily together.

During Dr.Phil yesterday when he gave the girl raising her siblings a full scholarship. I cry a lot during Extreme Make-Over: Home Edition too. That stuff always gets to me.

I feel your pain, my mom was told today that she has cancer.

Last time I cried was when I got dumped by my girlfriend. It was about 6 weeks ago.

I think it was when my mother was in hospital for a couple of days. Everything turned out fine but to see my parents mortality is a differcult thing.

try tonight..

i cry a lot.

When I was with my girlfriend a couple days ago. I told her about my fear of her leaving me, and it happened.

When I was torn between two, but could only have one...

Today. I'm a crybaby.. My ex and I were talking, I don't think she's making good decisions.. eh.. besides I'm just lonely..

today when i realized how much i loved him and how much i hate saying goodbye everytime.

Had a decent cry last night. I was really full of positive emotion and fear at the same time, if that makes sense.....

Grade 8, that was a long time ago.

About 3 weeks ago. My girlfriend went to eat with her ex.. so I went off on her pretty bad. And in apologizing, I cried for the first time in 15 years... forgot what that felt like.

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Relax Mrs. B.....although I know it is hard....just take a few minutes of the day and try to do Nothing.

It really does help.

I identify with a lot of what you guys are saying. Recently I find myself crying so hard at night that it "stains" my face (red blotches, puffy eyes) even to the next morning, and I have to try and hide it when I go to work. It comes from the kind of pain that just makes me unable to stand or even sit up, it hits me so hard. This happened last night, in conjunction with my being in a long-distance relationship, and the loss of my grandmother. Seems to happen once a week or ever other week. Also find that I don't cry hard when I fall asleep, but sometimes the tears just can't stop leaking... they are a constant trickle, until my mind shuts down enough that I can sleep. That happened on Sunday night.

Last time I cried? That would be tonight, or I should say, last night and this morning. My mom told my brother and I tonight that my father has liver metastases, and is doing pretty badly in the hospital right now. These past few months things have gotten progressively worse. I just can't believe this cancer is about 5 years in the making. He's only 48 for crying out loud! I just hope there is some kind of possible treatment for him. Yep, things are looking pretty dim right now.

a couple of hours ago.
I finally said something I had had bottled up. resulted in tears.

Yesterday when some words were said that brought back a very happy time and place.