I don’t just mean when you’re pregnant and your hormones are raging, but all the time. What’s wrong with me? I don’t mean a full out sobbing cry, but I feel like I’m on the edge of tears all the time. It’s not necessarily a bad cry either.
Well of course if your a new mom, it’s the what happened to my life, I’m so exhausted can’t even take a shower cry or let me just hide in the pantry like “Charlotte” from Sex In the City because I just can’t handle this right now cry.
But I also mean the empathy cry like when you watch the news or when you see something and think what is this world coming to? The other day when I was downtown I saw a homeless man and I started to think what his life was like, what was he like as a child, where is his mom? I know probably too much thinking, but it reminds me of how fortunate I am and how fortuntate my children are that they have a home and a family that loves them.
Or the happy you totally get me cry, like when someone says something or you watch something and you can totally relate. It brings out your emotions and makes you feel not so alone.
I think as women that’s one of our strong suits, our emotion when used to gain understanding or show empathy. So crying doesn’t just mean we are sobbing whining messes, it means we care and we get it. Or maybe sometimes we just need a release. So go ahead let it out!
When a woman becomes a mom, you think you’re the same, but I think something happens that makes you more of you! So do I cry more now that I’m a mother? Probably and I don’t think it’s necesarily a bad thing. What about you?
yes and no. I do get more emotionally charged when watching / reading the news and get all worked up about it. then…my kids first bike ride with no training wheels makes me cry and cheer in the same time. first day of kindergarten..boy oh boy the tears that i could not stop the minute i left his classroom behind. All the above would make you say I cry more, but then…my first dog died, the four legged first baby and the kids were sooooo sad. I was heart broken (still am) and felt like punched in my solar plex and gasp for air. I just couldn’t cry in front of the kids. I needed not to add more sadness to their sadness.
Thanks for sharing. I know it’s hard when you really do want to cry and have to hold it in to be strong for the kids.
Some of the best advice I ever got was from my sixth grade teacher, Mrs. Wylie. She said, “It’s okay to cry.” Since becoming a mom, I definitely cry more. Crying is such a natural release. I definitely want to teach my son, Tate, that there is no shame in crying.
Sometimes I even cry at the end of Modern Family!