Irrational crying when you're stressed - what have you cried about?

[Liberty Belle]

I've done this before. I wasn't even stressed when it happened. Hmm...

Well, most of my days are stressful since I have a special needs kid , but I cry a lot of the time when I sing. It's pathetic and I feel like an idiot, but it happens.

 

[katesorad]

Well, most of my days are stressful since I have a special needs kid , but I cry a lot of the time when I sing. It's pathetic and I feel like an idiot, but it happens.

The same thing happens to me too, actually. I can't say that my days are as stressful as your's, since I don't have any kids.. but we all have the right to cry while singing!

 

[Starbrite]

Oh I cry all the time over songs. And lord help me if I see the video on TV!


I cried not too long ago when the lights died on the Christmas tree! It was the day after I'd put it up, it was beautiful - all decorated & sparkly...then BAM. Didnt work anymore.

 

[Miniefan]

The same thing happens to me too, actually. I can't say that my days are as stressful as your's, since I don't have any kids.. but we all have the right to cry while singing!

I recently moved away from home and family in Florida and I have been stressed over finding a job, and being homesick too Bob Marley's Three Little Birds came on the radio and I started bawling. I just started thinking about home and the beach, oh well, I did feel better afterwards.


Kim

 

[minniebeth]

About a week after my mom passed away, I went grocery shopping. My DH was with me and when he was getting into the car, I *gasp* didn't put the cart in the cart corral. (I usually do.) I was just so physically and emotionally exhausted I couldn't take one more step. A lady walking by my car gave me a dirty look, obviously for leaving my cart there. I burst out crying for being judged this very time I didn't put the cart away.
I don't dare post this on the cart corral thread.

 

[chellewashere]

My DH broke his foot in 3 places 5 days before Christmas this year. So now here I am doing everything for Christmas. Thankfully I had most of it done, but he is a procrastinator and had NOTHING done that he should've (he always waits till Christmas Eve). So Christmas Eve Im doing all the cooking, finishing the wrapping, bringing down the boxes and boxes and boxes of toys for my DD, placing them all correctly under the tree, making sure everything else is perfect for whens he comes out in the AM. DH did nothing cause he cant. Fast forward 2 days later we have nurses and physical therapist coming out to the house to check on him so I have to try to keep the house totally clean, try to make my DD who is 5 leave nothing on the floor so her dad can crutch himself around keep 5 dogs and 2 cats from getting underfoot and just being totally exhausted from not sleeping and hell not even being able to sit cause somebody needs something as soon as my tushie hits a chair or couch. So after all this my DD has a ton of barbie type dolls that the evil packaging people decide needs to be held in with things more than Fort Knox. So here I am with my utility knife cutting away at all these little tiny pieces and yelp stupid knife cuts me (this is after I have opened around 30 boxes while hubby has managed to do 5) I freak out and just start bawling like a little baby. make my DD freak out so Im trying to calm her down and what does DH say...geez it wasnt that bad just a little cut and you have a total meltdown tantrum.
Yeah so accidently when I slammed the door shut on the car and his foot wasnt pulled all the way away it was just a little accident.
I know I shouldnt have broke down like that but it was just the stress of that week I was just overly emotional. And the joy is I still have another month of it to go..Yeah!!

 

[dicar123]

A couple of days before my wedding, I went to pick up the matchbooks and dessert napkins. They were ordered from the same company and came out two totally different shades. One was a deep, deep pink and the other was a sparkly light pink. I nearly lost my mind. Pity the poor clerk who tried to tell me that they were really the same color because "look here on the order form, it says the same color for both".

Dh talked me through drinking a glass of wine and then tucked me right into bed.

 

[Becky2005]

Hmm...can't remember it being stressed but definitely hormonal.

I cried over Burger King messing up my cheeseburger. I WAS pregnant at the time but I was just so upset with it (and it's not like I haven't gotten wrong orders a gazillion times before or after). Luckily for them I was in the car & DH had gone in to get the order or I'm sure they would have thought I was really crazy to breakdown crying like that just because they didn't give me my cheeseburger the way I wanted it.

Actually, that might have been a mixture of stress too because normally I don't get that emotional even in pregnancy. It had just been being a bad time in general then. Out of 4 pregnancies that was the only time I just had a crying fit over something so minor & I even KNEW it wasn't the end of the world but couldn't help it.

 

[N&B'smom]

A week before my wedding we found out that the harpist that was going to play for our cocktail hour took a different job. No clue why, we had booked her and all. I was freaking out.

Looking back, why did I even have a harpist??? (obviously, we found a replacement)

 

[Suellen]

I cry all the time when it comes to the girls.

I cried watching 16 and Pregnant both times the girls decided to give the baby up for adoption.

When I was pregnant I cried and literally broke down in heaving sobs because I wasn't going in to labor and baby was two weeks overdue.

Hey ~ we are women! Hear us weep!
It's what we do.....

 

[avgeek81]

I cried last saturday when i was in ct visiting family. I had plans to go to the casino with my aunt and uncle and she called and canceled bc she thought it was gonna snow. I seriously cried all mourning. And i couldnt stop even tho i knew it wasnt a huge deal. I looked online and saw it wasnt supposed to snow til like 6pm which was when i had plans with other ppl so i figured that would be canceled too and thought great i came up here just to sit around and not see anyone.
I usually cry once during vacations i think it is the stress of being away from home. In Vegas i cried bc everyone else was winning and i wasnt

 

[mistyt]

I cry all the time when it comes to the girls.

I cried watching 16 and Pregnant both times the girls decided to give the baby up for adoption.

When I was pregnant I cried and literally broke down in heaving sobs because I wasn't going in to labor and baby was two weeks overdue.

Hey ~ we are women! Hear us weep!
It's what we do.....

Oh baby stuff makes me cry all the time! It is amazing how many of the girls I graduated highschool with are having little ones and I get so emotional and happy for them that I always tear up!

And a quick side note: the picture in your avatar makes me smile every time I see it! If I ever meet you, can I please squeeze those darling little feet that are in your avatar!

 

[ChiCat]

Yesterday I saw an angry man with his daughter walk towards two exit doors at an L station, she started to go out the one he apparently didn't want her to go out, and he grabbed her by her head and the directed her to the right door and then shoved her out of it, she fell on the cold sidewalk and he didn't say anything to her or help her up. She was maybe 5 years old? It still depresses me.

I know this is a rational cry but growing up in a neglectful/dysfunctional home I wish I could just tell kids sometimes, it gets better! I know growing up I never had hope.

 

[Ember]

I have giggled my way through this thread and it made me feel much better. Thank you.

I remember when we were first living in Germany. I was homesick, lonely, didn't speak the language yet, and everything just felt hard. We went to Ikea for something and I wanted a slip cover for the couch. Only they didn't have the blue one. Well, that was the end of it and I wound up a crying mess in the middle of a German Ikea. My darling DH just cuddled me up until I was better and reassured me that I wasn't crazy. (I'm not sure he was right, but it was a nice gesture.)

 

[MickeyMomOfThree]

You are all making me feel better. I am a crier. I feel better when I let it out. And stress is a huge trigger for me. I know sometimes it may seem like a little thing that sets me off, but usually it's a bunch of little things and that is the one thing that is just too much. But, I get it out and then I feel OK again.

I've been really sick over the last few months with pain from gallstones and was being shuffled back and forth to doctors before I found a surgeon who would take it out. There were several times where I broke down sobbing. Although I was in major pain, it wasn't the pain that had me crying, but just being so frustrated with the entire thought of being sick longer. My poor mother would just say something on some days and I was so stressed from it that I would just start tearing up! Deffinatly been stressful for awhile, but hey, sometimes those tears are good to get out!

Ugg, I feel for you! My issue is endometrosis, but I feel the same way. I can almost deal with the pain, it's the interfering with my life that makes me crazy!!!

 

[Suellen]

Oh baby stuff makes me cry all the time! It is amazing how many of the girls I graduated highschool with are having little ones and I get so emotional and happy for them that I always tear up!

And a quick side note: the picture in your avatar makes me smile every time I see it! If I ever meet you, can I please squeeze those darling little feet that are in your avatar!

She is not so little anymore! LOL!

That's here on the right! She loves that picture of her when she was a baby though ~ so I keep it! That was taken over three years ago now! Time goes fast!! Too fast! <--another thing that frequently makes me cry!

 

[PUZZLDY5]

Just this last Saturday I had a major meltdown over having to do the dishes.
I live in a house with 4 men. I think they were secretly trying to commit me.

 

[luvmy3jewels]

I cry every time I see my niece, whether in person or in pictures. I also cry whenever I hear any mention about the hospital that she spent the first three months of her life in. She was born premature and almost didn't make it...everytime I see her I think about how absolutely precious she is and how lucky our family is that she is here with us. I think it might be some sort of strange post traumatic stress issue that comes from visiting her in the NICU so often. As a mother of three, I had no idea what parents of preemies go through until I saw first hand what my dsis and bil went through.

 

[LMDisneygirl]

When we were at WDW this summer we were heading for Space Mountain. My husband was so excited that he got in line about 10 - 15 people in front of my boys and I. Of course he was going to wait for me to board the ride, but we had started out our trip with a lot of stress, and I was so put out when I decided that he didn't want to ride with me that I started to cry. Of course he waited and we rode together, and I cried until I remembered that they were going to take a picture of us.....at which point I pulled it together.

 

[mistyt]

Ugg, I feel for you! My issue is endometrosis, but I feel the same way. I can almost deal with the pain, it's the interfering with my life that makes me crazy!!!

That was one of the "You might have" that the doctor told me before they found out what was really wrong.

She is not so little anymore! LOL!

That's here on the right! She loves that picture of her when she was a baby though ~ so I keep it! That was taken over three years ago now! Time goes fast!! Too fast! <--another thing that frequently makes me cry!

WOW! Look how big she has gotten! I do love that picture too, I showed it to my mom and got a big "awwwwwww' from her too! I love their matching outfits in that pic, so cute!