I was about 10 when my aunt had her first baby. “I cry about everything now,” she said, “TV commercials, pictures of children, anything.”
Weird, I thought.
I rarely saw my mum cry. If she did it was never over TV commercials or pictures of children.
And then I became a mum, and I got it. The crying bug. I didn’t cry at my own wedding. Before kids I could go months between tears. I couldn’t muster happy tears, and sad tears were few and far between. But now… waterfalls.
It’s like the doctor turned on a switch at the birth of Lacey, and somehow I’m more in tune with my emotional side. I have tears reading blogs, tears watching the news, tears seeing my daughter skip off to kindy, tears when people tell me stories, tears over TV commercials.
Last night I cried over a report on 60 Minutes about a mother losing her child {ssshhh Hubby said I wasn’t allowed to watch it, but I did}.
When is the last time you cried?
Before kids I used to cry only during movies and maybe when hubby said something overly romantic (oh, where have those days gone!!!). Now, even the slightest thing can turn on the water works. Yesterday it was a TV show with clown doctors visiting sick children in hospital. I was a mess.
I'm pathetic…..have just started watching The West Wing (yeh, I know I'm late to that party) but yesterday I found myself crying while watching! What the???
The ad was enough for me to know I needed to skip 60 minutes last night.
Yet I'd recorded offspring from Wednesday night – fiction! yet when Billy was upset because she was no longer pregnant, I found myself wiping the tears from my eyes. lol.
I'm hopeless.
I cry in children's movies. So hopeless, but kind of funny at once!
I was the same as Miss Mandy. I don't even normally watch Offspring but the scene where Billy loses the baby and then is doing her best to cope at the dinner party had me crying.
I used to be hard as nails and never cried at movies, or anything like that. Now, I can even cry at soap operas.
The last time I cried, though, I'm ashamed to say, it was when my computer succumbed to a malware infection. 😀
oh my gosh, did you watch 'go back to where you came from' on sbs? I'm STILL crying about that- like rivers, not just the odd tear, the whole bloody ocean (paving the way for more 'boat' people).
If tears teach us love, tolerance, patience, kindness than bring it on!
xo em
Oh I've got the bug alright!
I was a decent crier pre-baby, but now? I tear up every few days! And at a hormonal time it can be daily.
Ads, songs, blogs, movies, Masterchef, ABC2… You name it, I'll weep. xx
Oh Chantelle I cried at 60 minutes last night too. My crying switch was turned on when I was about 6 months pregnant, my son is now 11 and it is still going strong!
I cried over that same story, like balled my eyes out : (
Then couldn't sleep cos I was too upset silly I know.
x
Motherhood opened my heart… and the floodgates. Just like you Chantelle, I didn't cry much until I had the babies, it changed everything. I like being more emotional, more connected with people, with other mums, families. I don't like the tears that come when I am feeling totally overwhelmed, didn't like the weeks of tears that came with depression, but the tears of sorrow for others, the feeling of being so close to others, that's good.
I seem to have done the opposite! I used to cry all the time, but now I feel like I hardly cry at all- weird huh?
LOVE your new look Chantelle!!!! It is so colourful and inviting. Have a Lovely day and a stress free week xx
For me I have always cried but now its gotten pretty bad, I cried while watch Kung Fu Panda 2 & last night I wasn't aloud so I just goggled it & read the transcript I was in tears.
i was planning a post on this very topic after a discussion about Marley&Me with a friend yesterday.
I too have become far more of a crybaby since my kids were born, probably increasingly so with each child.
Last time I cried, on Saturday watching Top Gun. Not once but twice. There is the obvious tears when Goose dies but on Saturday I felt myself welling up at the beginning when Cougar has a meltdown.
When did I get so soft?
Tatum xx
I too wastched 60 Minutes last night and I bawled. What an asshole. Unthinkable. I also cry when my kids get awards.
I've alwyas been emotional, but after having Max I am officially a wreck!
I remember watching an episode of Greys a couple of weeks after Max was born and ending up in hysterics because one of the doctors said something flippant about a dying baby. I don't think my poor husband knew what hit him 🙂
Having my bub completely opened my heart and the floodgates. I can cry at the drop of a hat – it doesn't have to be sad, it can be someone being nice to me! It really doesn't go down too well at work though. I've been struggling watching Offspring the past few weeks as all the miscarriages and dying babies are just too much to deal with. I even caught a glimpse of the sneak peek of Crownies (ABC) about a dad accidentally leaving his baby in the car and I just screamed at my husband change the channel now!!
I watched “Marley and Me” for the first time on Saturday night.. needless to say I cried.
I used to be hard arsed, but now I'm a real sook.
Not just at sad things either, I 'm a fiend for the happy tears too!
I have always been a total blubberer, but, oddly enough, becoming a mum has actually made me a (little) bit more stoic. I am much less likely to cry about my life… I think I have developed a 'keep calm and carry on' mentality because I move into a 'solution!' head space. I want the very best for my kids and crying about stuff isn't going to achieve anything… right?
That said, I still lose it totally during movies and sad news stories. Wah! x
That story was horrific – i had tears watching that too. I cried at my wedding, and at the birth of all my children. I find I go through ups and downs with shedding a few tears – lately it's been a lot, other times, not so much. Definitely more in tune with my emotions since having kids
ohhhh first of all I love your polka dot background! so cute and fun
oh yes I cried last night! I always have to watch those kind of shows and I just felt her pain. It was so raw and she was so brave. He is the worst kind of person there is in this world.
corrie:)
I cried last night watching the same thing (though I made myself turn it off, it was just too hard). Waterworks are a problem for me since the day I figured out I was pregnant (it was one of the obvious indicators!). I assume one day I'll get over it!
I knew when I watched the ad for 60 minutes I was going to cry. And cry I did. Long, loud, ugly-face crying.
Then when my little guy woke up and wanted to come into bed I didn't bitch and moan … I just snuggled in and sniffed his hair and thought that I am the luckiest mummy in the world.
Kair x
last weeks episodes of Offspring made me sob my heart out – Billie losing the baby was just too close to home for me.
~x~
I cry at anything I read or see in the news that's baby/child related. It's at the point now where I don't read anything news related and I even get my husband to screen the news headlines so I know if I should watch it. It'll probably get worse now I've had my second 🙂
I am exactly the same! I cry at everything!! I am such a sook! But for someone who wasn't really emotional its nice to be swtiched on to this side of me :))
yep i am the same.. hubby won't let me watch anything like that, for that reason! I also can't watch anything that has anything to do with bad things happening to kids/babies i have to change the channel straight away! x
I cry at most things on telly that are tear worthy. The Man just shakes his head. Was surprised when I got blubbing during Disney on Ice – watching the breathtaking skating & seeing my little man so enthralled by the magic of it all. Hope the folk behind me thought I just had a cold!
well just wait till you get to go the school assemblies! I pretend im not crying but i just cant stop LOL
it dosnt even have to be my kids assembly either… 😀
Am glad I didn't watch the 60 minutes segment because it would have set me off. I cry at almost anything sad to do with babies/children. I cry also at emotional situations or scenes such as a mother/father having to let go of her child are she grows up. But in relation to just crying on my own anytime recently, those occasional tears have been tired, frustrated ones – I don't get enough sleep and have a 4 month old.
Before kids I was a little sensitive, now that I have kids and grandkids i can be a hot mess.
Unfortunately, it was today. There is a court case involving a three year old who died a horrible death and to be told that the mom or the grandfather could have done it was too much to comprehend. No one wins in this trial.
Oh you don't know how glad I am that I am not the only one!
I cry over everything. Songs, photos, birth stories, ads, when my daughter tells me she loves me, even during eps of Bold & The Beautiful.
Biggest. Crybaby. Out!
Yep, they installed the crying gene in me when I had the bubs too Chantelle!
It is funny, as I will cry over all the things you mention here… bucket loads… but at times when I am stressed out and under the pump I don't cry. They are the times I expect to be a blubbering mess and I'm not, I just get so determined instead (though last week, I did have a little meltdown which I blogged about, sometimes you just gotta let it out… so that was the last time I cried). xo
P.S. Funky new look by the way. LOVE!
Oh yes. Something I never understood completely until five years ago.
Now. I. Get. It.
Totally.
xx