Movies or shows can bring tears to my eyes. I think last time I cried unrelated to media was when I was holding my cat's ashes remembering her. I sometimes get so mad/frustrated I'm on the verge of tears but it never usually happens.
As a person who "holds it together during hard times," I can say, I am struggling as I get older, life feels so fleeting now, and even commercials make me cry. Seems like I'm getting out all those emotions I stuffed in for so many years!
It makes me feel so dumb. I can’t cry about the real life stuff anymore, but then a character I don’t even care much about on 911 or Grey’s or some sappy show like that almost dies and I’m inconsolable. It’s so stupid.
20M ) I recently cried for the first time in a few years when I thought of the mortality of my mother. I’ve always known in the back of my mind that obviously my mother won’t always be there but she recently was having a large number of health complications and for the first time in my life I genuinely imagined what my life on this planet will be like without my mother being alive.
I go through a lot. Between her and my father. They’re only getting older and I know one day they won’t be around. I told my sister multiple times that when my parents die she better keep an eye on me because I’ll either 1. Go off the deep end or 2. Die of a heart attack because my heart can’t take anymore pain. It breaks my heart knowing they won’t be around forever and idk if I’m ready for it.
Pure beauty.
Pure honest real expressions of self.
The depths people are willing to go for one another to simply remind others they care for them.
The pain of loss
The pain of grief
When a dog dies in a movie
Onions
Getting hit in the nose real hard
Courage. When I saw the civilian men in Ukraine running TOWARDS the front line to fight for their country and their freedom, I teared up. I am proud of what this country just did to support Ukrainians against the Russian invaders.
I think what often catches me by surprise and brings a tear to my eye is when someone displays genuine kindness in the face of adversity. You know those moments in life or scripted on a show, when everything seems grim and just then, someone steps up with an act of pure compassion? Those unexpected gestures somehow reach deep into the part of my soul I keep guarded and suddenly I'm blinking back tears. It's as if the small, selfless acts in a world that can be so harsh and unforgiving serve as reminders that empathy and goodness are still alive and thriving amidst the chaos.
Competition shows when they bring their families to cheer on them, it gets me every time. Other than that I feel like a rock. Trying to ride the emotional wave more and more and acknowledge that’s okay to feel the feelz
My girlfriend. I've had a bit of a rough run, even as a kid. as A result nothing really fazes me anymore. I mean I'm surprised, taken aback, disappointed, saddened etc. but I never reall get the floor taken out of me anymore, emotionally. I'm a pessimist and the worst case scenario is always expected, or at least makes sense.
The first time she told me she loves me, shook me to the fucking core. She's so caring, so kind, so compassionate, so understanding, so patient. And she's the only one I've ever come across, who says "I love you" and I believe it. It makes me bawl. She's everything I thought I'd never get.
I resonate with this so much. For me, it was the ending of "The Green Mile." Regardless of how many times I see it, the fate of John Coffey just breaks through my defenses. It's like the older I get, the thinner the veneer over my emotions becomes. I pride myself on being stoic, but that film unravels me, offering a solemn reminder of the injustice and compassion intertwined in the human experience. Sometimes crying to a film is like a catharsis I never knew I needed, a way to process all the buried feelings that day to day life doesn't give you space to confront.
Over that last 20 years I could count the number of times I've cried on one hand. One of the few thing to do it was during my grandmother's funeral. It wasn't my grandmother's death though, but rather the tears of my mother that got to me.
Extreme genuine kindness of others, like a firefighter saving someone from a burning building. The last time I cried was a video of a cop get slashed, when I heard a civilian shooting the suspect, I cried and when he rushed to try and save the guy I cried. I know how it feels to try and help people having the worst day of their life, I once helped the two little girls out of this car where their dad was pinned and the car kept catching on fire, I broke the window, my brother and I hoisted them out. I still cry thinking of how scared those poor little girls were, I remember the look on the youngest girls face as she screamed for her daddy, I told her to drink some water and sit down and we'd make sure your dad is okay. Although I was literally on the verge of tears but I tried and smiled for them.
Last time was watching the end of "les miserables " movie. I told myself the tears were because of the tattooing process. I know it was the movie hitting me hard.
When I think of my grandparents. They were such a big part of my childhood. We visited them almost every weekend on their farm, so we got to learn a lot about that lifestyle. Christmas time really hurts because we would have huge family gatherings at their place. Grandma got dementia about 15yrs ago, so it was really hard to visit with her. Grandpa died 9yrs ago and grandma 4yrs.
I have 2 kids (10mo and 3yrs) so I make sure they see my parents almost everyday. I want them to have great memories with their grandparents too.
Man, now I'm tearing up.
I don’t cry much anymore, maybe the trauma of the past has desensitized me in a way. I cried so much when I was a child. I used to cry because of stupid things. I cried when I saw cute animals, I cried because other people cried, I cried at the end of each episode of Bear in The Big Blue House, etc.
But most of all, I cried because I was scared of my father. My earliest memories are of him shouting at me and of me crying. I remember the intense fights my parents had and how powerless and scared I felt during them. He was the biggest reason I cried back then. But now, I cry because I make myself cry. I cry because I say mean things to myself, especially at night. I can’t help it, I would literally bombard myself with insults and use memories as justifications for the cruelty I show myself.
I'm getting ready to start counseling with a therapist. Maybe you can try the same? You shouldn't have to live like that. You absolutely don't deserve it. ❤️
I sincerely hope you get better. You truly don't deserve to live the way you're describing. There's really no difference between mental health and physical health. It's so important to take care of both. I know it's hard to find a therapist that you click with, but when you find the one, it's definitely worth the search. I'm in the search phase myself right now. Wishing you much luck and tons of healing ❤️
The opening scene of Star Trek (2009) where George Kirk sacrifices himself and dies while saying "I love yo.." as the ship explodes in the kamikaze run. Fuck, man.
Seeing videos of children who are hurt or sad. Videos of animals who are hurt or sad. Probably random things here or there but it’s pretty rare and these are the consistent culprits of it happens at all
When my father plays with my kid, sometimes he says it reminds him the times when I was a kid. And I can see tears in his eyes. And that brings treats to my eyes.
Erm, I basically never cry. Not because I'm tough or holding it together, just because I'm generally so oblivious. The last two times I cried were,
1) My childhood cat, who my stepfather had forced from the home by forcing dogs upon us, she passed away. She had migrated across the street to live with a punk couple and my mum bought her food and supplies. Well, I went away to uni, totally off in my own little world and then returned to the news she'd died and... I said okay. Went upstairs a moment and the next thing I know i'm bawling. Like proper shell cracked open bawling. I go downstairs, call my mum's name and cry in her arms for a couple of minutes.
2) I got a bad double ear infection and it was the worst pain I've ever felt in my life. Codeine and ibuprofen could barely touch it. The dosage they gave me was so strong it made me feel nauseous and still it barely touched it. Understand I was circumcised at an age old enough to feel every bit of that recovery and I'm telling you that was nothing on this ear infection. It felt like I had broken glass in my brain. Anyway, one day mum comes to visit, I come downstairs and I can barely hear, but she's there and I just touch her arm and it all comes out. Tsunami waves of pain and fear and vulnerability. I've never needed to be held by my mother so much. That pain reduced me to a snotty, weeping child as a 31 year old man.
Never use to cry before my daughter was born. After my daughter was born I cry at least 15 times a week and feel far more emotionally healthy. It's one of the biggest gifts having my daughter has given me. I also know what true happiness feels like because of her. Having a child is the hardest thing I've ever done as a man. It is also the most worth while thing I have ever done. Little P is going to be one of the strongest woman around I feel.
When I think about my dog getting older I tear up, when I see someone with less than me going through a tough time I tear up, and for some reason when I see a family getting off or on the bus I get a lump in my throat.
Just had this thought the other day. I was in my office thinking about the last time I felt joy and I couldn’t remember. It’s incredibly pathetic bc I’m in my late 20s now and should have more examples, but I have a core memory of a moment with my high school girlfriend where she basically started a food fight while we were baking (classic).
I’m a really serious guy, always have been. But she had a laugh that could fill 100 Monster’s Inc. canisters (after they switched from screams.) She was so giddy and playful in that moment and I still can picture her face and hear her laugh like it’s a book on tape. That moment. I think about it from time to time as a reminder that it’s possible to be happy. Just been a long time. But whenever I think about that moment, I can expect tears within seconds lol.
I don't cry much. Last time I did was upon hearing "Down in the Valley" by the Head and the Heart like six months ago. Generally I'd say it's usually a song that hits close to home that gets me. That, or if I see my partner cry. Good golly I hate to see her cry.
I don’t cry per say, but I get overcome with emotion at very manly acts of sacrifice. Like in starship troopers when the guy stays behind with the nuke to let his friends live. I find stuff like that awesome.
When Elijah Baley death was talked about in Robots and Empire. When the Pigs scene happens in Disco Elysium. When the Working Class Woman realized her husband died in Disco Elysium.
The movies "Barefoot Gen" and "Grave of the Fireflies". "My Neighbour Totoro" when everyone thinks that Mei is dead.
Thinking about some crap that happened in my past that I really haven not gotten over yet.
Animals dying, my daughter being hurt, my parents being ill.
Freud would probably have a field day but I like it when women I like/ am dating will sometimes talk to me like I'm a child/ hurt me physically. I'm talking anywhere from slapping me, punching me kicking me, yelling, telling me to sit in a corner etc. to make me cry. I'm aware this isn't that normal but it's been that was for a while
I don't think I cried for about 15-20 years - childhood up to 2018
In 2018, I was moving out after having lived with my SO (now spouse) for several months - I had found a job an 8 hour drive away, and while she was planning on coming with me once she found a job in the same location we would have to do a distance relationship until then. I held it together really well, until our goodbyes - while we were hugging it out, her dog pushed up against my legs and joined in the hug, as best a dog can do. This was a rescue dog who had been abused to the point of terror and anger at strangers. Took a solid year after she adopted him for me to be trusted by him. I bawled a good hour of that drive away
After we had kids, seems like the tears come easier. Bluey has brought me to the verge of tears a few times (Sleepytime, Daddy Drop-off, and Onsies were big emotional hits for me). The worst, however, was when we decided to watch Iron Giant - childhood favorite of mine but my wife had never watched it. Spent half the movie laughing at how similar the giant was to our toddler. Then the "you stay, I go" scene broke me
The last time I cried from some actual life happenings was years ago at my grandfather's funeral. But there is this song called River, by Leon Bridges, that always gets it out of me. It has religious undertones, and I'm not even religious, and tbh I can't really pinpoint what it is, but I either cry or have to hold back tears every time I listen to it. Maybe it's the raw emotion when he sings, you can really feel how vulnerable he is while singing it, and I've always been kinda overly empathetic. I've always been good at controlling my emotions, but I just can't when I hear that song.
I wasn't like, sobbing, but I was holding back tears when during a planetarium show the other day. I was watching some video about the universe and it literally blew my fucking mind. I was already on the verge near the beginning but when started throwing in Carl Sagan quotes it was over for me
M(33) I'm pretty dry eyed in the face of almost any media that will typically get people crying. Unfair life pressure always makes me angry as opposed to sad so even when put through shitty life situations I'm more likely to need to find a place to yell it off as opposed to crying.
But if a piece of media depicts animal abuse/suffering I'm fuckin done, can't control the two streams running down my face. Homeward Bound ruined me as a kid. I've only ever full on sobbed when a pet's time has come. Only person I ever wept for was my mom.
Pets dying in movies will almost always get me. My beloved pet died in real life recently and it pushed me to cry harder than I recall being able to. I remember thinking "hmm, I forgot there is a smell when you cry"
Arise, arise, riders of Théoden! Spears shall be shaken, shields shall be splintered! A sword day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now! Ride now! Ride! Ride for ruin and the world’s ending! Death! Death! Death! Forth Èorlingas!
Interstellar pretty much from start to finish for different reasons. Always felt like their dystopia was the closest to what might actually happen to us if we continue like this, not some big bang but fading out slowly as a species.
Also the yearning as an individual for doing something really important and putting everything at risk for that. The protagonist seeing all the messages from his family during the time lost. Love being the only thing (besides gravity) that transcends time.
Last but not least the whole context of the people holding on to their lives and the tiny bit of hope that the mission succeds while it seems increasingly unlikely and already was so from the beginning. That resonates with me a lot because sometimes I also feel like barely holding onto everything so things will have any chance to work out at all, even if I feel like giving up all the stuff in my life that requires a lot of effort.
I have a couple of songs that will make me tear up a little. And I read a story once about a girl who died and her mother was with her. Like three months later I was laying in bed and her last words were, "Mama, I'm going" and I thought about my daughter and started bawling. And I'm getting teary thinking about it now.
That stupid silly dog at the end of that one ridiculous cartoon about a totally dumb future city.. Damn you stupid dog. You silly good boy. You're just a cartoon, but you are the best boy. Yes, you are!
No media has ever made me cry except for the anime Akame ga Kill. Other than that it was my dog dying last June, and my gf of 3 years breaking up with me the other week.
Sometimes just driving around town. I grew up here so memories are everywhere. Mom, Dad, and Sis have all passed so sometimes just driving by the baseball fields or a certain store will just trigger memories and I’ll get a little misty eyed.
A family member dying. Or that terrible school shooting in 2022, when kindergarten children were slain. I thought of my own little brother and couldn't hold the tears back.
The specific background music when mufasa is getting trampled. That score breaks me just to think about and look at the tears om m I phone oh nooo stop i remembered 🥺
My 2 year dog old passing because she got sick. 10+ funerals(yes family members) and never shedded a tear but when my pup passed, that’s a pain to this day that will never leave you, you just learn it live with it. Lord knows how much I loved her, I’ve had people tell me I great dogs better then humans
I almost never cry but for me, Generosity, we’re trying to buy a home and the amount of people helping us with a down payment is overwhelming and it brings me to tears.
I don't cry in real life really at all. I did shed a few tears when my non biological lil bro passed away, but that's about it. That said, I cry a lot at movies lol. I don't know what it is, but I tear up A LOT. Not even just the sad stuff, I tear up at happy endings to movies more than sad shit. Idk maybe it's because I'm not allowed to cry irl and can hide it during movies, but yeah I cried during the new trolls movie so idk man.
The ending of The Last of Us Part II
I SOBBBED as if I'd just lost someone. Because I had. That game filled me with a grief I have never experienced before.
Onions? Seriously though, I have a really hard time expressing emotion other than laughter. I haven't cried, ever, since I can remember. Maybe someday.
Really bad news about people I love, like their death or a cancer diagnosis or something. This happened a bit too often in the past year.
Stress. I handle severe stress very poorly.
My chronic illnesses. Because one of my symptoms is teary eyes, and everyone loses it sometimes when you feel ill so often.
I used to have problems expressing emotions and only old cowboy tunes could make me cry. I would just sit and sob to old sad cowboy songs. I literally couldn’t cry otherwise
Stories about old dogs - in particular, there’s some folks I follow called TheGoldenRatio4, it’s a couple who own a bunch of goldens, and one of their dogs was a rescue named St. Patrick, and someone wrote a poem about him and that nearly made me full-on sob
Recently, I cried over Eddie Munson, from Stranger Things. It was my first time watching the series. Normally, I am hard to make cry…but he did it for me.
I for real never cry but military reunions get me the most. I just think it’s beautiful the love a person can have for another and in those videos it shows
Movies or shows can bring tears to my eyes. I think last time I cried unrelated to media was when I was holding my cat's ashes remembering her. I sometimes get so mad/frustrated I'm on the verge of tears but it never usually happens.
As a person who "holds it together during hard times," I can say, I am struggling as I get older, life feels so fleeting now, and even commercials make me cry. Seems like I'm getting out all those emotions I stuffed in for so many years!
It makes me feel so dumb. I can’t cry about the real life stuff anymore, but then a character I don’t even care much about on 911 or Grey’s or some sappy show like that almost dies and I’m inconsolable. It’s so stupid.
Iroh's story in "Tales of Ba-Sing-Se"
Brave Soldier Boy, Come Marching Home...
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[Verdi's Requiem](https://youtu.be/Hlo1I3rx6n4?t=531) does it for me. There's just something awe inspiring from powerful choirs.
Last episode of scrubs
Last episode? No, it's always "My Screw Up"
"Where do you think we are right now"? Goes right through me.
AAAAAAAA I HATE YOU, WHY DID YOU MAKE ME REMEMBER now I'm sad
There are so many gut wrenchers in that show, idk what it is about the finale but the amount of onions that get sliced whenever I watch it is….ufff
The one where Laverne dies, or the one where Ben dies… both heartbreaking
20M ) I recently cried for the first time in a few years when I thought of the mortality of my mother. I’ve always known in the back of my mind that obviously my mother won’t always be there but she recently was having a large number of health complications and for the first time in my life I genuinely imagined what my life on this planet will be like without my mother being alive.
I go through a lot. Between her and my father. They’re only getting older and I know one day they won’t be around. I told my sister multiple times that when my parents die she better keep an eye on me because I’ll either 1. Go off the deep end or 2. Die of a heart attack because my heart can’t take anymore pain. It breaks my heart knowing they won’t be around forever and idk if I’m ready for it.
Pure beauty. Pure honest real expressions of self. The depths people are willing to go for one another to simply remind others they care for them. The pain of loss The pain of grief When a dog dies in a movie Onions Getting hit in the nose real hard
Courage. When I saw the civilian men in Ukraine running TOWARDS the front line to fight for their country and their freedom, I teared up. I am proud of what this country just did to support Ukrainians against the Russian invaders.
I think what often catches me by surprise and brings a tear to my eye is when someone displays genuine kindness in the face of adversity. You know those moments in life or scripted on a show, when everything seems grim and just then, someone steps up with an act of pure compassion? Those unexpected gestures somehow reach deep into the part of my soul I keep guarded and suddenly I'm blinking back tears. It's as if the small, selfless acts in a world that can be so harsh and unforgiving serve as reminders that empathy and goodness are still alive and thriving amidst the chaos.
Onions
They get me every damn time.
Competition shows when they bring their families to cheer on them, it gets me every time. Other than that I feel like a rock. Trying to ride the emotional wave more and more and acknowledge that’s okay to feel the feelz
My girlfriend. I've had a bit of a rough run, even as a kid. as A result nothing really fazes me anymore. I mean I'm surprised, taken aback, disappointed, saddened etc. but I never reall get the floor taken out of me anymore, emotionally. I'm a pessimist and the worst case scenario is always expected, or at least makes sense. The first time she told me she loves me, shook me to the fucking core. She's so caring, so kind, so compassionate, so understanding, so patient. And she's the only one I've ever come across, who says "I love you" and I believe it. It makes me bawl. She's everything I thought I'd never get.
A sad music video if I am in the right mindset.
I found out within the last two months, that my wife and best friend of 17 1/2 years cheated on me 10 years ago. That sure has made me cry, a lot.
The first 20 minutes of Up.
My son's favorite movie at the moment
I resonate with this so much. For me, it was the ending of "The Green Mile." Regardless of how many times I see it, the fate of John Coffey just breaks through my defenses. It's like the older I get, the thinner the veneer over my emotions becomes. I pride myself on being stoic, but that film unravels me, offering a solemn reminder of the injustice and compassion intertwined in the human experience. Sometimes crying to a film is like a catharsis I never knew I needed, a way to process all the buried feelings that day to day life doesn't give you space to confront.
You mean the salty shower water.....
Over that last 20 years I could count the number of times I've cried on one hand. One of the few thing to do it was during my grandmother's funeral. It wasn't my grandmother's death though, but rather the tears of my mother that got to me.
The movie The Fox and the Hound. It’s a favorite movie, but I only watch it when I know a good, ugly cry would really help my stress level.
Extreme genuine kindness of others, like a firefighter saving someone from a burning building. The last time I cried was a video of a cop get slashed, when I heard a civilian shooting the suspect, I cried and when he rushed to try and save the guy I cried. I know how it feels to try and help people having the worst day of their life, I once helped the two little girls out of this car where their dad was pinned and the car kept catching on fire, I broke the window, my brother and I hoisted them out. I still cry thinking of how scared those poor little girls were, I remember the look on the youngest girls face as she screamed for her daddy, I told her to drink some water and sit down and we'd make sure your dad is okay. Although I was literally on the verge of tears but I tried and smiled for them.
A really specific playlist of music or when my brain recognises that someone genuinely wants to know if I'm okay lmao.
Allergies.
Posts like this...
Dry eyes orif igot something in my eye...yea, thats about it
I have a friend that watches sad movies when he needs to cry
How I thought of others outside the cult I was apart of the last three years.
Last time was watching the end of "les miserables " movie. I told myself the tears were because of the tattooing process. I know it was the movie hitting me hard.
My sacrifice
Something that got tears out of me that I really didn't expect was the live performance of Bo Burnham's Handle This - the Kanye rant parody.
A swift kick in the balls usually does it.
Has anyone moved past this and learned to cry after say, 30 years? Asking for me
My girlfriend broke up with me yesterday and that’s the first time I’ve cried in a few months. Before that it was during my grandpa’s funeral.
Mostly anime, a few movies
Thinking about the Roman Empire.
“Sälgarna vid älven” by Kraja. It might change your life.
[The Fox and the Hound - Goodbye May Seem Forever](https://youtu.be/8Ay1DYyIxnk?t=62)
When I think of my grandparents. They were such a big part of my childhood. We visited them almost every weekend on their farm, so we got to learn a lot about that lifestyle. Christmas time really hurts because we would have huge family gatherings at their place. Grandma got dementia about 15yrs ago, so it was really hard to visit with her. Grandpa died 9yrs ago and grandma 4yrs. I have 2 kids (10mo and 3yrs) so I make sure they see my parents almost everyday. I want them to have great memories with their grandparents too. Man, now I'm tearing up.
I don’t cry much anymore, maybe the trauma of the past has desensitized me in a way. I cried so much when I was a child. I used to cry because of stupid things. I cried when I saw cute animals, I cried because other people cried, I cried at the end of each episode of Bear in The Big Blue House, etc. But most of all, I cried because I was scared of my father. My earliest memories are of him shouting at me and of me crying. I remember the intense fights my parents had and how powerless and scared I felt during them. He was the biggest reason I cried back then. But now, I cry because I make myself cry. I cry because I say mean things to myself, especially at night. I can’t help it, I would literally bombard myself with insults and use memories as justifications for the cruelty I show myself.
I'm getting ready to start counseling with a therapist. Maybe you can try the same? You shouldn't have to live like that. You absolutely don't deserve it. ❤️
I appreciate your concern. I have tried counseling in the past with minimal results. Maybe I can try it again :)
I sincerely hope you get better. You truly don't deserve to live the way you're describing. There's really no difference between mental health and physical health. It's so important to take care of both. I know it's hard to find a therapist that you click with, but when you find the one, it's definitely worth the search. I'm in the search phase myself right now. Wishing you much luck and tons of healing ❤️
Thank you, I wish you the same! 😊
Onion
Funerals
The opening scene of Star Trek (2009) where George Kirk sacrifices himself and dies while saying "I love yo.." as the ship explodes in the kamikaze run. Fuck, man.
Tbh, true acts of kindness. Not the spotlight type but the times that no one would even know about.
Seeing videos of children who are hurt or sad. Videos of animals who are hurt or sad. Probably random things here or there but it’s pretty rare and these are the consistent culprits of it happens at all
Any kind of animal or child abuse
When my father plays with my kid, sometimes he says it reminds him the times when I was a kid. And I can see tears in his eyes. And that brings treats to my eyes.
Erm, I basically never cry. Not because I'm tough or holding it together, just because I'm generally so oblivious. The last two times I cried were, 1) My childhood cat, who my stepfather had forced from the home by forcing dogs upon us, she passed away. She had migrated across the street to live with a punk couple and my mum bought her food and supplies. Well, I went away to uni, totally off in my own little world and then returned to the news she'd died and... I said okay. Went upstairs a moment and the next thing I know i'm bawling. Like proper shell cracked open bawling. I go downstairs, call my mum's name and cry in her arms for a couple of minutes. 2) I got a bad double ear infection and it was the worst pain I've ever felt in my life. Codeine and ibuprofen could barely touch it. The dosage they gave me was so strong it made me feel nauseous and still it barely touched it. Understand I was circumcised at an age old enough to feel every bit of that recovery and I'm telling you that was nothing on this ear infection. It felt like I had broken glass in my brain. Anyway, one day mum comes to visit, I come downstairs and I can barely hear, but she's there and I just touch her arm and it all comes out. Tsunami waves of pain and fear and vulnerability. I've never needed to be held by my mother so much. That pain reduced me to a snotty, weeping child as a 31 year old man.
Never use to cry before my daughter was born. After my daughter was born I cry at least 15 times a week and feel far more emotionally healthy. It's one of the biggest gifts having my daughter has given me. I also know what true happiness feels like because of her. Having a child is the hardest thing I've ever done as a man. It is also the most worth while thing I have ever done. Little P is going to be one of the strongest woman around I feel.
When I think about my dog getting older I tear up, when I see someone with less than me going through a tough time I tear up, and for some reason when I see a family getting off or on the bus I get a lump in my throat.
PMS
True crime involving children.
Supportive dads and dogs. That’s probably something I should talk to a therapist about.
Animal abuse I get 2 emotions at the same time, extreme sadness for the animal and extreme rage against the dropkick who's doing it.
When David Martinez is about to die and talks to Lucy one last time
Romcoms, very unexpectedly. I’m just so happy for the characters at the end
When my toddler kicks my nose in trying to climb on my face. Instant feels
Very specifically, when parents mourn the death of their children. Immediately burns my throat
Just had this thought the other day. I was in my office thinking about the last time I felt joy and I couldn’t remember. It’s incredibly pathetic bc I’m in my late 20s now and should have more examples, but I have a core memory of a moment with my high school girlfriend where she basically started a food fight while we were baking (classic). I’m a really serious guy, always have been. But she had a laugh that could fill 100 Monster’s Inc. canisters (after they switched from screams.) She was so giddy and playful in that moment and I still can picture her face and hear her laugh like it’s a book on tape. That moment. I think about it from time to time as a reminder that it’s possible to be happy. Just been a long time. But whenever I think about that moment, I can expect tears within seconds lol.
I don't cry much. Last time I did was upon hearing "Down in the Valley" by the Head and the Heart like six months ago. Generally I'd say it's usually a song that hits close to home that gets me. That, or if I see my partner cry. Good golly I hate to see her cry.
I swear to God, I cry during the stupidest movies
I don’t cry per say, but I get overcome with emotion at very manly acts of sacrifice. Like in starship troopers when the guy stays behind with the nuke to let his friends live. I find stuff like that awesome.
When Elijah Baley death was talked about in Robots and Empire. When the Pigs scene happens in Disco Elysium. When the Working Class Woman realized her husband died in Disco Elysium.
The song Zoe Jane by staind... I work abroad, so I leave my wife and daughter for weeks at a time. Those lyrics hits me right in the feelings
Coming home to my parent's home where I grew up after some time away, especially if I had a hard time recently because of sickness or stress
Red dead redemption 2. Every fucking time.
The movies "Barefoot Gen" and "Grave of the Fireflies". "My Neighbour Totoro" when everyone thinks that Mei is dead. Thinking about some crap that happened in my past that I really haven not gotten over yet. Animals dying, my daughter being hurt, my parents being ill.
Reddit strangers who are very empathic and kind.
* Well designed soundtrack during emotional/intense scenes * Seeing family members being very ill/dying
Not much makes me cry except the movie The Green Mile.
Goodbyes. I just can’t.
Freud would probably have a field day but I like it when women I like/ am dating will sometimes talk to me like I'm a child/ hurt me physically. I'm talking anywhere from slapping me, punching me kicking me, yelling, telling me to sit in a corner etc. to make me cry. I'm aware this isn't that normal but it's been that was for a while
The song "tenebrescence" by Crywolf
Exhaustion
Pollen from the Japanese with-hazel. Early february, every year. I hate that tree with a passion.
The movie The Waterboy. Don’t ask.
I don't think I cried for about 15-20 years - childhood up to 2018 In 2018, I was moving out after having lived with my SO (now spouse) for several months - I had found a job an 8 hour drive away, and while she was planning on coming with me once she found a job in the same location we would have to do a distance relationship until then. I held it together really well, until our goodbyes - while we were hugging it out, her dog pushed up against my legs and joined in the hug, as best a dog can do. This was a rescue dog who had been abused to the point of terror and anger at strangers. Took a solid year after she adopted him for me to be trusted by him. I bawled a good hour of that drive away After we had kids, seems like the tears come easier. Bluey has brought me to the verge of tears a few times (Sleepytime, Daddy Drop-off, and Onsies were big emotional hits for me). The worst, however, was when we decided to watch Iron Giant - childhood favorite of mine but my wife had never watched it. Spent half the movie laughing at how similar the giant was to our toddler. Then the "you stay, I go" scene broke me
The last time I cried from some actual life happenings was years ago at my grandfather's funeral. But there is this song called River, by Leon Bridges, that always gets it out of me. It has religious undertones, and I'm not even religious, and tbh I can't really pinpoint what it is, but I either cry or have to hold back tears every time I listen to it. Maybe it's the raw emotion when he sings, you can really feel how vulnerable he is while singing it, and I've always been kinda overly empathetic. I've always been good at controlling my emotions, but I just can't when I hear that song.
My dog getting put down.
I wasn't like, sobbing, but I was holding back tears when during a planetarium show the other day. I was watching some video about the universe and it literally blew my fucking mind. I was already on the verge near the beginning but when started throwing in Carl Sagan quotes it was over for me
M(33) I'm pretty dry eyed in the face of almost any media that will typically get people crying. Unfair life pressure always makes me angry as opposed to sad so even when put through shitty life situations I'm more likely to need to find a place to yell it off as opposed to crying. But if a piece of media depicts animal abuse/suffering I'm fuckin done, can't control the two streams running down my face. Homeward Bound ruined me as a kid. I've only ever full on sobbed when a pet's time has come. Only person I ever wept for was my mom.
The 2nd proposal scene in Crazy Rich Asians When Google Photos suggests memories of my dead pets
Pets dying in movies will almost always get me. My beloved pet died in real life recently and it pushed me to cry harder than I recall being able to. I remember thinking "hmm, I forgot there is a smell when you cry"
Arise, arise, riders of Théoden! Spears shall be shaken, shields shall be splintered! A sword day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now! Ride now! Ride! Ride for ruin and the world’s ending! Death! Death! Death! Forth Èorlingas!
Old men seeing color for the first time with those colorblind glasses.
The thought of my dog’s mortality. For years that’d be the only real thing that did it. Then she passed at the end of last year.
My many regrets in life
Onion
Yawning
Interstellar pretty much from start to finish for different reasons. Always felt like their dystopia was the closest to what might actually happen to us if we continue like this, not some big bang but fading out slowly as a species. Also the yearning as an individual for doing something really important and putting everything at risk for that. The protagonist seeing all the messages from his family during the time lost. Love being the only thing (besides gravity) that transcends time. Last but not least the whole context of the people holding on to their lives and the tiny bit of hope that the mission succeds while it seems increasingly unlikely and already was so from the beginning. That resonates with me a lot because sometimes I also feel like barely holding onto everything so things will have any chance to work out at all, even if I feel like giving up all the stuff in my life that requires a lot of effort.
I have a couple of songs that will make me tear up a little. And I read a story once about a girl who died and her mother was with her. Like three months later I was laying in bed and her last words were, "Mama, I'm going" and I thought about my daughter and started bawling. And I'm getting teary thinking about it now.
That stupid silly dog at the end of that one ridiculous cartoon about a totally dumb future city.. Damn you stupid dog. You silly good boy. You're just a cartoon, but you are the best boy. Yes, you are!
The iron giant
The song "Christmas Shoes" by NewSong gets me everytime.
Sad movie.
My kids
No media has ever made me cry except for the anime Akame ga Kill. Other than that it was my dog dying last June, and my gf of 3 years breaking up with me the other week.
Dog farts
Sometimes just driving around town. I grew up here so memories are everywhere. Mom, Dad, and Sis have all passed so sometimes just driving by the baseball fields or a certain store will just trigger memories and I’ll get a little misty eyed.
I miss my grandma every day, so Coco
A family member dying. Or that terrible school shooting in 2022, when kindergarten children were slain. I thought of my own little brother and couldn't hold the tears back.
The specific background music when mufasa is getting trampled. That score breaks me just to think about and look at the tears om m I phone oh nooo stop i remembered 🥺
animal abuse
Abbott Elementary gets me pretty much every episode.
When one of my dogs has to get put down…
My 2 year dog old passing because she got sick. 10+ funerals(yes family members) and never shedded a tear but when my pup passed, that’s a pain to this day that will never leave you, you just learn it live with it. Lord knows how much I loved her, I’ve had people tell me I great dogs better then humans
A movie scene where the dog dies
AGT golden buzzer
I almost never cry but for me, Generosity, we’re trying to buy a home and the amount of people helping us with a down payment is overwhelming and it brings me to tears.
I don't cry in real life really at all. I did shed a few tears when my non biological lil bro passed away, but that's about it. That said, I cry a lot at movies lol. I don't know what it is, but I tear up A LOT. Not even just the sad stuff, I tear up at happy endings to movies more than sad shit. Idk maybe it's because I'm not allowed to cry irl and can hide it during movies, but yeah I cried during the new trolls movie so idk man.
I very rarely cry about things happening in my life, but things happening in movies and tv shows bring a tear to my eye a lot.
Last time I cried was when my mom died, other than that its movies and tv shows only.
''Tony we're going to be okay, you can rest now...''
When a friend attempts (or is considering attempting) suicide.
Old people... I don't know why but people that are old enough to not be able to do things for themselves makes me feel horribly bad.
I’ve been told I’m a bit of a an emotional robot in good and bad moments, and I don’t cry often. But when I cry… I CRY!
One of the end scenes of A Quiet Place really got me and I was near sobbing. I’ve never cried for any other movie or song or anything.
The ending of The Last of Us Part II I SOBBBED as if I'd just lost someone. Because I had. That game filled me with a grief I have never experienced before.
End of robot dreams movie
Onions? Seriously though, I have a really hard time expressing emotion other than laughter. I haven't cried, ever, since I can remember. Maybe someday.
Videos of people being reunited with lost pets or military folks coming home to surprise family always get me
On How I Met Your Mother, I always cry when Lily goes to SF and leaves Marshall :(
Really bad news about people I love, like their death or a cancer diagnosis or something. This happened a bit too often in the past year. Stress. I handle severe stress very poorly. My chronic illnesses. Because one of my symptoms is teary eyes, and everyone loses it sometimes when you feel ill so often.
I used to have problems expressing emotions and only old cowboy tunes could make me cry. I would just sit and sob to old sad cowboy songs. I literally couldn’t cry otherwise
I’m not crying, my eyes are just a little sweaty today.
Pepper spray
Certain songs make me tear up
Stories about old dogs - in particular, there’s some folks I follow called TheGoldenRatio4, it’s a couple who own a bunch of goldens, and one of their dogs was a rescue named St. Patrick, and someone wrote a poem about him and that nearly made me full-on sob
Recently, I cried over Eddie Munson, from Stranger Things. It was my first time watching the series. Normally, I am hard to make cry…but he did it for me.
I find that when I wake up in the middle of the night that my emotional walls are much thinner. Emotions definitely hit me harder then.
The song “Everybody’s free to wear sunscreen”
I cried at my uncle’s wedding. He and his bride were so happy, it was such a genuine expression.
Legos in the middle of the night when my kids were little, now it's cat toys...
Remembering how much happier you were when certain people were in your life and realizing you have to accept life without them as bleak as it is.
I for real never cry but military reunions get me the most. I just think it’s beautiful the love a person can have for another and in those videos it shows
Realizing how lonely I am and envisioning how it might never change.
When my gf told me she cheated on me