When was the last time you cried?

[HawkeyeShawn]

2 weeks ago. I make football highlight videos for my son’s HS football team. Season hype, playoff hype, end of season, etc. This year we won the state championship so I’m making season highlights for each individual starter. For some reason I had a little cry making our quarterback’s video. I used Fountains of Wayne’s song “All Kinds of Time” in the video and GD it if I didn’t get choked up.

The last full on cry I had was at my sister’s celebration of life last Jan.

 

[Thunderlips71]

Sad parts in movies get me choked up a lot but my last real cry was the morning of December 12th. I woke up that day. That means I've lived longer than my older brother who died 6 years ago.

I’m sorry for your pain, brother. Keep up the good fight.

 

[artradley]

Welled up several times this year:

• Lost one of my oldest friends in January
• My daughter, who is on the spectrum and for whom everything in life is a challenge, graduated from college in May
• Son got married in October
• Lost another of my oldest and best friends in November
• Lost my sister (only sibling) the next week

But the last time I really cried was in 2016 when my father passed away. I loved and respected him, and he was one of the most interesting people I’ve ever known. That was rough.

 

[seminoledq]

I had some bad beats in football this year that made even the strongest willed man shed a tear.

 

[Whiskeydeltadeltatango]

My daughter and I got in an "No, I love you!!!" Match the other day that made me well up a little. She has made me cry a few times over the last 2.5 years, just wishing I was a better man.

I cried when I had to put Rocky down 3 years ago. Best dog, to me, I will ever own. Rip Rocky.



Pain: idk

 

[Nole Lou]

I cried for the first time since childhood on my wedding day when I was 23 and someone told me how much my grandfather would have liked to have lived to be there to see it, and it hit me kind of hard on top of all the emotion of the day. I hadn't cried when he or my grandmother had died. Then I cried a couple years later when my oldest was born.

I didn't cry for 25+ years after that, even through deaths and my mother dying, crying just wasn't something I did. And then a few years ago my life and marriage blew apart thanks to my wife developing severe mental illness issues, and about roughly the same time the kids left the nest. I have found I certainly can cry now, and it doesn't take a whole lot to trigger it. For a while I would cry somewhat regularly about my direct plight...the loneliness, losing my wife, the kids leaving, the trauma of many of the events that happened, losing the future I had imagined and worked so hard for.

Now, I've roughly come to accept the reality, so it would be hard to make myself cry just thinking about the losses. But now it will be more triggered out of nowhere by seeing something in life or on TV and it will be like popping a balloon and I will be a mess. Like I can sit here and think about what happened to me and it not make me tear up at all, but I can see like a super old couple out together at a store holding hands, and have to leave and bawl in my car for 30 minutes. Sometimes it's something much less direct than that even, it just hits a certain way. It feels like my emotions are way, way closer to the surface now and it doesn't take much to break them open.

 

[Brown Dog]

Yesterday when I read my 2 year old son "I'll Love You Forever". Told my wife to warn me next time I grab a book like that.

Also welled up pretty good at the birth of my daughter a week ago.

Last good cry was during Dad's cancer treatments this past spring. We were basically told he's going to get quality of life treatments and has 9-12 months left. Fairly confident he's going to go in and get declared cancer free by his oncologist today so the water works might start again. Thank God for UIHC!!!

 

[yescyam]

Probably about 5 minutes ago, when I watched this for the first time in 6 months or so. Cry like a baby every time. Had a couple different golden retrievers covering 30 yrs. of my life. Got my first one right after graduating from college. Didn't make a vid of her life, but made sure to take plenty of pics of this one. Special, special dog.

 

[HawkMachine]

I always admit I am the emotion coach on our staff (the highs and the lows) but
when seniors (and their families) who you have developed a relationship with for 6+ years walk off the field for the last time it ALWAYS gets me.

This reminded me of probably the most recent time I cried.

Last year at state wrestling, hugging my son after his last match telling him how proud I was of him.

He and I have a very tight relationship and have spent countless hours downstairs on the mat together as well as other sports.

Damn he was so good and fun to watch.

 

[Serenity4cy]

One of our cats went missing on June 12th this past summer. She was old and figured she just wandered off to die. Searched for her high + low for two weeks, but finally gave up. Got a call on July 30th (7 weeks to the day) that someone found her and took to 24 hour Animal Hospital. Had been hit by a car, both pelvis' were broken. That was tough. Had to put her down, buy glad the kids got to see her again + say goodbye.

 

[the24fan]

Last month when my mom passed.
Before then in October when my sister passed
Before then in Sept when my best friend since kindergarten passed

Horrible fall season for me and family.

Ouch. Sorry bro. That’s a rough stretch

 

[artradley]

This reminded me of probably the most recent time I cried.

Last year at state wrestling, hugging my son after his last match telling him how proud I was of him.

He and I have a very tight relationship and have spent countless hours downstairs on the mat together as well as other sports.

Damn he was so good and fun to watch.

My son started wrestling when he was seven. He got to be pretty good, wrestled Varsity four years, and his goal was just to get to states. This is in single class NJ where only 24 out of 1200 certified kids at his weight qualify, and he was in the single most difficult region in the state by far, so qualifying was damn hard.

His Junior year he came one match short, then his Senior year he came one match short again. Like you, hours and hours of traveling to clubs, coaching him, entire weekends in a gym for tournaments - it was an amazing bonding experience. But when I met him in the hallway after the match and the tears started flowing, it was one of the most emotionally and painful moments ever.

You know how there’s no crying open baseball? There’s lots of crying in wrestling. Brutal sport, physically and emotionally.

 

[ping72]

Last night during my session with OP’s mom.

It was a self-loathing cry. I hate myself sometimes, but I just can’t quit her. Sometimes I wish she didn’t need the $20.

 

[alaskanseminole]

When was the last time you cried?​

FSU vs. Georgia Tech
FSU vs. Boston College
FSU vs. Memphis
FSU vs. SMU
FSU vs. Clemson
FSU vs. Duke
FSU vs. Miami
FSU vs. North Carolina
FSU vs. Notre Dame
FSU vs. Florida

 

[DFSNOLE]

Probably at my son's wedding. They chose and played songs for each parent. My son picked this one for me. I started again when I just started listening to it.

 

[Herkster5]

Just watched some soldier coming home bullshit on TikTok. I don’t know these people! Why am I emotional! ****in’ sissy….

 

[WSC72]

I’m guessing 1970 when I was getting some stitches removed. Had to be around that year.

 

[SolarHawk]

The Dolphins make me cry all the time.

Hootie?

 

[WSC72]

Hootie?

 

[billanole]

Do tell if you want.

Yesterday.
Watching a segment about Pearl Harbor survivors.