Crying

[Constance]

My wife is most likely to cry when she's angry, and she hates that. When she's angry, she wants to seem ... I'm not sure of the right word ... intimidating, perhaps. She feels that her anger isn't taken seriously if she cries.

[Hypatia]

Once I was on HRT, it became so much easier to cry. I felt very grateful at this new gift to be able to let out my feelings through tears. A sense of great beauty makes me cry as much as sadness. Certain pieces of music always make me cry every time I hear them, some because they're sad and others because they fill my heart with a sense of how beautiful life can be if we open ourselves to it. Estrogen enhances all my feelings to a far richer degree than was possible without it. Estrogen is MSG for the soul...

[Jeannette]

I've cried lots when I watch movies, when I watch the sorrows this world's going through, when I feel trapped & hopeless.  Times are changing for me though and my tears are subsiding.

[Owen]

I cry at least once a day sometimes more. It's for different things. I cry out of joy, cry when I'm angered, cry when I am sad. I also cry when someone else is crying. For me it depends on the currant situation. Tears come easy for me always has. I never was allowed to show it. ONly in the past few years I can cry more openly. It's a relief at times, other times I just cry for no reason I can think of. I'm not even on HRT yet. SOmetimes it just feels good.

Linda Ann

Love being female

[Lori]

I cry whenever I look into a mirror. So I stop looking. I cry whenever I sad movie comes along and others cry...

Kate was right. When other people cry..I cannot stop.

[Valentine]

I hardly ever cry because i follow a very good moto.

Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be Will Be).

The futures not ours to see so why cry about it.

[mikke]

I used to cry all the time before going on T. Since going on T (almost a year now) I have cried exactly once, and that was when my kitten was diagnosed with FelV. Other than that,  nada.

[Moira Midnigh]

I cry every now and then when I get to thinking how hopeless it all seems. Such as now when I write this post, I'm already starting to cry.

I cry when other people cry, in books or in movies or in real life.

Sometimes, I cry for no reason at all.

Occasionally, I cry when I'm happy.

I always cry when I'm angry.

I never let anyone see me cry.


~Moi

[Lisbeth]

I cry when I think about the family I don't have anymore.

[Scratchy Wilson]

I have to get drunk to cry.

I can't even do that anymore 

[cindybc]

I find it easier to feel any reason to cry but especially over sentimental reasons, or certain songs, movies, disturbing dreams, I sometimes cry when I am laughing or cry for simply no reason, just feel like it. I cry when I hear something cruel or mean going on, or people that are hurting for whatever reason. Tonight Wing Walker and I went out to a restaurant to have supper and there was this couple who were being quite obnoxious towards the waitress. Those ignorant so and so's walked out without paying their bill. I called the waitress over and asked her to sit beside me and I held her hand and I let her do the talking and when she began to cry so did I. Nothing very eventful except for two women sharing a moment together.

As Wing Walker and I went up to the counter to pay the check there were two BC mounties walked in and were asking some questions to the lady at the cash register. Good I hope they find them.

Cindy   

[Dorothy]

I cry often and usually in private. When I was much younger I would cry everytime my emotions would be bumped... like, slight embarassment, heck from my parents, someone speaking harshly to me at school, hearing someone else cry (still gets to me!) ... and I have gotten control over it with age. But I still allow myself to cry often, maybe 1 or 2 times a week, because I find it cleansing, and it replaces other things I might feel, like anger or rage. Sometimes things appear much clearer to me after a good cry.

[cindybc]

Hi Lisbeth, I know what that is like and yes it hurts. But then it was them that ostracised me, for how ever much that can ease the pain. We wanted to be who we are, hell, we were driven to it but after jumping that transition fence I was happy to be who I am. A person with a warm heart whose only wish is to heal all of the pain in all of humanity's heart.

Cindy 

[Lisbeth]

Hi Lisbeth, I know what that is like and yes it hurts. But then it was them that ostracised me, for how ever much that can ease the pain. We wanted to be who we are, hell, we were driven to it but after jumping that transition fence I was happy to be who I am. A person with a warm heart whose only wish is to heal all of the pain in all of humanity's heart.

Cindy 

I'm slowly learning that there is a great deal of humanity that doesn't want to have me heal their pain.  Or else I'm so bad at it that I only make things worse.

[tekla]

a great deal of humanity that doesn't want to have me heal their pain

Sometimes if the pain is all you have, its the only thing you have to hold on to - or so it seems at the time.  And despite our best intentions, there are some places in the interior castle of the soul that once you walk into them, you're the only one who can find a way back out.

[Floating]

When I was little I used to cry a lot and I mean a LOT.  I even used to cry because I cried so much.  People would make fun of my at school because I used to cry. 

Boys aren't supposed to cry. 


Now though, I really don't cry much at all.  I taught myself how not to.  And it really scares me sometimes that I don't cry. There are times that I want to.  Sometimes I feel so utterly horrible but I won't even shed a single tear.  Sometimes it feels like I'm completely devoid of any emotion what so ever.  It's especially bad when I'm with other people.  Even the closest person to me has seen me cry so rarely.


When I'm alone sometimes I watch really sad movies for the specific purpose of making myself cry because I actually feel better when I do.


There is one exception though.  And it's really strange.  Whenever I watch the movie "My Girl" I start crying.
It's not even that sad of a movie.  But it always happens.  My girlfriend makes fun of me for that.  *shrugs*. ^_^  It is kinda funny.  I really don't know why it makes me cry.  It just does.

[cindybc]

Hi Lisbeth, you are doing the right thing, I was a social worker for twenty years, long enough to learn you can't save everyone, unfortunately you loose more then you win and that is the normal status quo when in the life saving business, even for Paramedics and the Coast Guard etc.

But that doesn't mean we are going to stop trying to help folks, not if our desire to help others is strong in our hearts we learn to just let go those who are only using us, wasting our time  or just plane don't want your help. Oh yes, there is is also the psychic vampire to watch for. Those that suck you into their problems and pain but not really looking for help, just wanting to suck your energy. Those are the ones who will find dozens of excuses as to why what you suggest will not work, sound familiar?

Much love Lisbeth

Cindy

[ToriVF]

I voted "once a day" but that is because I get teary eyed just because I thought of, or saw, something that touched me.  I never used to do that before HRT.  Danged estrogen...Thank you, lol.

[cindybc]

Th estrogen only just more finely tuned the senses I already had before.

Cindy

[Lisbeth]

Hi Lisbeth, you are doing the right thing, I was a social worker for twenty years, long enough to learn you can't save everyone, unfortunately you loose more then you win and that is the normal status quo when in the life saving business, even for Paramedics and the Coast Guard etc.

But that doesn't mean we are going to stop trying to help folks, not if our desire to help others is strong in our hearts we learn to just let go those who are only using us, wasting our time  or just plane don't want your help. Oh yes, there is is also the psychic vampire to watch for. Those that suck you into their problems and pain but not really looking for help, just wanting to suck your energy. Those are the ones who will find dozens of excuses as to why what you suggest will not work, sound familiar?

Much love Lisbeth

Cindy

I don't know. Maybe. *crying*