Mom's, do you cry?

[Robin'sBrood]

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[chickensioux]

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I grew up a tomboy too. 2 brother and a neighborhood full of boys, I had to be tough. My crying days started when I was pregnant with my first boy. One of my dogs (at that time) stepped on a toad and injured it. I picked up the toad and put it in the shrubs hoping it would be ok. Many hours later I was sitting with DH and I turned to him and said "I really need to cry." He said "about the frog?" Yep, I burst into tears and cried hard.
21 years later things have not changed. I was upset about the frog (what with being an animal lover and all) but now it's EVERYTHING! Something about childbirth......
softens you, makes you look at the world differently, appreciate, whatever.
It's a good thing.

 

[chickensducks&agoose]

Before kids, I didn't cry. Maybe a little if I was really, really frustrated (like in math class)... since kids, every single movie with a happy ending, or a sad ending, or anything to do with babies, people growing up, or changes, makes me cry. loudly. that Toy Story 3 (or 4?) the one with the sad broken baby? I cried the whole 30 minutes home. so did my mom... my kids were all in the backseat, totally confused why I kept swerving and sobbing... It just gets worse.

 

[chicmom]

Hey, if it's the right time of the month, I'm cryin' at a kleenex tissue commercial!

The curse of being a female!

 

[chicmom]

Robin'sBrood :

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Oh, you've got a sensitive man! I think you're lucky! My hubby is a real hard-a@*! I've only seen him cry one time in 11 years!​

 

[sammileah]

I blame hormones. I grew up in a "I'll give you something to cry about" house so I hate to cry makes so mad. but i'll be driving and hear a song and I cry. I've also developed panic attacks since Boys (12yrs) came along.
so glad i'm not the only 1

 

[pdsavage]

I don't cry because t gives me a red face,running nose and a headach.Plus no real reason to cry,it won't change the situation.I just deal with life and move forward.

 

[I have WHAT in my yard?]

I used to never cry. Like others here, I had learned the hard way that it just showed people you were vulnerable.

I rarely lost my temper or my cool.

Now..... I cry at movies, I cry when I am angry, I lose my temper...... yeeesh. The misery of re-learning to open up my heart and love another human being DH and my kids more than anything else on this planet. Having a child is like cutting a huge chunk out of your heart and setting it free in the world so that other people can hurt it and it can turn on you later. There is nothing that makes me crazier than some one hurting my child. But, the times when you just it there and listen and hug them and hope they learn.

I miss not having a temper, cause now I really need to keep my cool. But, the truth is I never really had those really strong emotions because I have never cared so very much about anything or anybody.

Yup, I cry. (My feet got bigger and my hair got darker and my eyes got lighter, who know's; but you cannot say having kids does not change you!)

 

[Three Cedars Silkies]

BK (before kids).... not a crier much at all (except maybe during PMS). AK (after kid) all the time... And mine is 23 years old.

Now I cry when I think about her getting married this year, moving out of state, re-upping her contract with the Army Reserve (another possible deployment), anytime I'm so proud of her (which is a LOT!!

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Being a parent changes EVERYTHING!!!

 

[The Chicken People]

My adult kids make me cry! Right now I am a bawling mess! My oldest boy is the culprit right now!