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"Pussies!... only joking When I was a younger man, I would see and hear things on the telly or the radio or have conversations. Perhaps things I would come across in real life, the unpleasantries of life. Famine, war zones, terminal illness, those sorts of things. While being harrowing and not nice to deal with... deal with it I did and, these things very rarely reduced me to tears. I find as I get older, these things are so much more emotionally draining and my eyes are more inclined to well up. I know it's not just me, other men have told me the same. So why is it? And, is it the same for you women?" It's the same for me. But when i was younger i was straight. So it may well be a gay thing? | |||
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"There are a few possibilities it my mind 1. We may have developed personally and become more comfortable with being emotionally expressive. 2. We have moved beyond our conditioning and moved beyond the introjection that ‘big boys don’t cry’ 3. We have developed our sense of compassion and our ability to really empathise with others 4. We have repressed our emotions for so long and so often that we enforce their containment for any longer and leak from our eyes. Tears are not the only display of emotion that may leak, it may also be our anger through grumpiness and our fears through irrational worrying." I agree with this. However I cry much less and less easily now than when I was younger. I find that although I feel compassion and very real sadness over some things I don't tend to be moved to tears. Then some stupid fictional drama kills off a midwife and I cry! No idea why. | |||
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"Personally,I find crying to be very therapeutic. It's a good way to release a lot of stress,tension and angst. better out than in. I consider it to be more of a strength than a weakness. So,if a man cries, he seems, to me, to be a man who is in control of his emotions rather than a man who allows his emotions to get the better of him." This. x Let it out. If things are really bad I create a crying situation as it relieves the stress. | |||
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"There are a few possibilities it my mind 1. We may have developed personally and become more comfortable with being emotionally expressive. 2. We have moved beyond our conditioning and moved beyond the introjection that ‘big boys don’t cry’ 3. We have developed our sense of compassion and our ability to really empathise with others 4. We have repressed our emotions for so long and so often that we enforce their containment for any longer and leak from our eyes. Tears are not the only display of emotion that may leak, it may also be our anger through grumpiness and our fears through irrational worrying. I agree with this. However I cry much less and less easily now than when I was younger. I find that although I feel compassion and very real sadness over some things I don't tend to be moved to tears. Then some stupid fictional drama kills off a midwife and I cry! No idea why." Because when we get immersed in a good drama we empathise with the characters to a greater extent and start to see things through their eyes. News broadcasts of sad events are not sufficiently long to develop that ‘advanced empathy’. Scientifically speaking, when we watch films or tv dramas with highly emotional content, our brain releases oxytocin -- a potent hormone that also behaves as a neurotransmitter in the brain. Oxytocin is the hormone that helps us connect with other humans and compels us to be more empathic, loving, trusting and unselfish individuals. If we cry therapeutically regularly we increase the development these capabilities/charactistics | |||
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"There are a few possibilities it my mind 1. We may have developed personally and become more comfortable with being emotionally expressive. 2. We have moved beyond our conditioning and moved beyond the introjection that ‘big boys don’t cry’ 3. We have developed our sense of compassion and our ability to really empathise with others 4. We have repressed our emotions for so long and so often that we enforce their containment for any longer and leak from our eyes. Tears are not the only display of emotion that may leak, it may also be our anger through grumpiness and our fears through irrational worrying. I agree with this. However I cry much less and less easily now than when I was younger. I find that although I feel compassion and very real sadness over some things I don't tend to be moved to tears. Then some stupid fictional drama kills off a midwife and I cry! No idea why. Because when we get immersed in a good drama we empathise with the characters to a greater extent and start to see things through their eyes. News broadcasts of sad events are not sufficiently long to develop that ‘advanced empathy’. Scientifically speaking, when we watch films or tv dramas with highly emotional content, our brain releases oxytocin -- a potent hormone that also behaves as a neurotransmitter in the brain. Oxytocin is the hormone that helps us connect with other humans and compels us to be more empathic, loving, trusting and unselfish individuals. If we cry therapeutically regularly we increase the development these capabilities/charactistics " I'm doomed then because I rarely cry nowadays. | |||
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"Personally,I find crying to be very therapeutic. It's a good way to release a lot of stress,tension and angst. better out than in. I consider it to be more of a strength than a weakness. So,if a man cries, he seems, to me, to be a man who is in control of his emotions rather than a man who allows his emotions to get the better of him. This. x Let it out. If things are really bad I create a crying situation as it relieves the stress. " Catharsis is really good- smashing the hell out of pillows and raging until I sob uncontrollably has been really helpful in my personal development | |||
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"There are a few possibilities it my mind 1. We may have developed personally and become more comfortable with being emotionally expressive. 2. We have moved beyond our conditioning and moved beyond the introjection that ‘big boys don’t cry’ 3. We have developed our sense of compassion and our ability to really empathise with others 4. We have repressed our emotions for so long and so often that we enforce their containment for any longer and leak from our eyes. Tears are not the only display of emotion that may leak, it may also be our anger through grumpiness and our fears through irrational worrying. I agree with this. However I cry much less and less easily now than when I was younger. I find that although I feel compassion and very real sadness over some things I don't tend to be moved to tears. Then some stupid fictional drama kills off a midwife and I cry! No idea why. Because when we get immersed in a good drama we empathise with the characters to a greater extent and start to see things through their eyes. News broadcasts of sad events are not sufficiently long to develop that ‘advanced empathy’. Scientifically speaking, when we watch films or tv dramas with highly emotional content, our brain releases oxytocin -- a potent hormone that also behaves as a neurotransmitter in the brain. Oxytocin is the hormone that helps us connect with other humans and compels us to be more empathic, loving, trusting and unselfish individuals. If we cry therapeutically regularly we increase the development these capabilities/charactistics I'm doomed then because I rarely cry nowadays. " Maybe you don’t need to? May be you’re all cried out or simply too content. Maybe you have repressed it and it will flood out at some time? | |||
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"Personally,I find crying to be very therapeutic. It's a good way to release a lot of stress,tension and angst. better out than in. I consider it to be more of a strength than a weakness. So,if a man cries, he seems, to me, to be a man who is in control of his emotions rather than a man who allows his emotions to get the better of him." Very much this, I find it very endearing for a man to cry in front of me. X | |||
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"There are a few possibilities it my mind 1. We may have developed personally and become more comfortable with being emotionally expressive. 2. We have moved beyond our conditioning and moved beyond the introjection that ‘big boys don’t cry’ 3. We have developed our sense of compassion and our ability to really empathise with others 4. We have repressed our emotions for so long and so often that we enforce their containment for any longer and leak from our eyes. Tears are not the only display of emotion that may leak, it may also be our anger through grumpiness and our fears through irrational worrying. I agree with this. However I cry much less and less easily now than when I was younger. I find that although I feel compassion and very real sadness over some things I don't tend to be moved to tears. Then some stupid fictional drama kills off a midwife and I cry! No idea why. Because when we get immersed in a good drama we empathise with the characters to a greater extent and start to see things through their eyes. News broadcasts of sad events are not sufficiently long to develop that ‘advanced empathy’. Scientifically speaking, when we watch films or tv dramas with highly emotional content, our brain releases oxytocin -- a potent hormone that also behaves as a neurotransmitter in the brain. Oxytocin is the hormone that helps us connect with other humans and compels us to be more empathic, loving, trusting and unselfish individuals. If we cry therapeutically regularly we increase the development these capabilities/charactistics I'm doomed then because I rarely cry nowadays. Maybe you don’t need to? May be you’re all cried out or simply too content. Maybe you have repressed it and it will flood out at some time?" I haven't repressed it. I have been in too many situations recently where crying would waste time when I needed to take action. When it's over I have Mr N to talk to. | |||
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"There are a few possibilities it my mind 1. We may have developed personally and become more comfortable with being emotionally expressive. 2. We have moved beyond our conditioning and moved beyond the introjection that ‘big boys don’t cry’ 3. We have developed our sense of compassion and our ability to really empathise with others 4. We have repressed our emotions for so long and so often that we enforce their containment for any longer and leak from our eyes. Tears are not the only display of emotion that may leak, it may also be our anger through grumpiness and our fears through irrational worrying. I agree with this. However I cry much less and less easily now than when I was younger. I find that although I feel compassion and very real sadness over some things I don't tend to be moved to tears. Then some stupid fictional drama kills off a midwife and I cry! No idea why. Because when we get immersed in a good drama we empathise with the characters to a greater extent and start to see things through their eyes. News broadcasts of sad events are not sufficiently long to develop that ‘advanced empathy’. Scientifically speaking, when we watch films or tv dramas with highly emotional content, our brain releases oxytocin -- a potent hormone that also behaves as a neurotransmitter in the brain. Oxytocin is the hormone that helps us connect with other humans and compels us to be more empathic, loving, trusting and unselfish individuals. If we cry therapeutically regularly we increase the development these capabilities/charactistics I'm doomed then because I rarely cry nowadays. Maybe you don’t need to? May be you’re all cried out or simply too content. Maybe you have repressed it and it will flood out at some time? I haven't repressed it. I have been in too many situations recently where crying would waste time when I needed to take action. When it's over I have Mr N to talk to." That just suggests emotional competence to me as your switching your emotions to something more productive | |||
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"I find crying shows you have feelings and caring. But in saying that i know one man that would go out his way to help outhers and is very caring but ive never seen him cry. " My aunt never, ever cried, even when her mother died. Lots of people called her hard or said she had no feelings. I thought that was unkind of them. Not everyone shows their feelings the same way and nobody is better or worse than another person for showing them differently. | |||
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"I know this will sound stupid but since I got pooch in 2016 I find myself getting more emotional at everything . It took getting a dog for me to start showing real tears . Now I can't fuckin stop welling up . I guess it shows he's now the love of my life ." Awww that is so sweet,brought a tear to my eye that x | |||
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"I find crying shows you have feelings and caring. But in saying that i know one man that would go out his way to help outhers and is very caring but ive never seen him cry. " It does show feelings but actions show how much someone cares | |||
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"I know this will sound stupid but since I got pooch in 2016 I find myself getting more emotional at everything . It took getting a dog for me to start showing real tears . Now I can't fuckin stop welling up . I guess it shows he's now the love of my life . Awww that is so sweet,brought a tear to my eye that x" Thankyou xx | |||
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"I'm not ashamed to admit that I'm a serial blubber and pretty much always have been - thing is though I well up at things like John Lewis Xmas ads or DIY SOS and don't even mention the last 15 minutes of Toy Story 3 (I was a blubbering wreck in the cinema!!) - yet other things I "should" get emotional about I don't so much as get moist eyes " Films are engineered to pull at our heartstrings, real life events aren’t created in the same way so we will often respond quite differently. | |||
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"I know this will sound stupid but since I got pooch in 2016 I find myself getting more emotional at everything . It took getting a dog for me to start showing real tears . Now I can't fuckin stop welling up . I guess it shows he's now the love of my life . Awww that is so sweet,brought a tear to my eye that x Thankyou xx " | |||
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"When I was a child I cried at absolutely everything until about age 11, I was super emotional. I think I cried so much I exhausted any excess liquid my body doesn't need as I haven't cried since " I think its possible to feel the emotions that cause many people to cry but express them differently. Grief is frequently expressed as anger, embarrassment as laughter,fear as bravado for instance. | |||
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"The only thing that makes me cry is brass military band music...I do love a good trumpeting " Well... apart from rather stupidly shooting yourself in the foot (and I thought I was Mr Sausage Fingers ) and listening to stuff you don't like... your the man Dave | |||
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"The only thing that makes me cry is brass military band music...I do love a good trumpeting Well... apart from rather stupidly shooting yourself in the foot (and I thought I was Mr Sausage Fingers ) and listening to stuff you don't like... your the man Dave " . I was testing my steel toe cap boots.... There not all there cracked up to be | |||
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"I find crying shows you have feelings and caring. But in saying that i know one man that would go out his way to help outhers and is very caring but ive never seen him cry. My aunt never, ever cried, even when her mother died. Lots of people called her hard or said she had no feelings. I thought that was unkind of them. Not everyone shows their feelings the same way and nobody is better or worse than another person for showing them differently." | |||
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"I find crying shows you have feelings and caring. But in saying that i know one man that would go out his way to help outhers and is very caring but ive never seen him cry. My aunt never, ever cried, even when her mother died. Lots of people called her hard or said she had no feelings. I thought that was unkind of them. Not everyone shows their feelings the same way and nobody is better or worse than another person for showing them differently. " Not to mention that nobody truly knows what went on in any particular relationship - we don't all have loveable parents. | |||
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"I find crying shows you have feelings and caring. But in saying that i know one man that would go out his way to help outhers and is very caring but ive never seen him cry. My aunt never, ever cried, even when her mother died. Lots of people called her hard or said she had no feelings. I thought that was unkind of them. Not everyone shows their feelings the same way and nobody is better or worse than another person for showing them differently. Not to mention that nobody truly knows what went on in any particular relationship - we don't all have loveable parents." Oh she did love her, she was my grandmother. My aunt expressed sorrow and grief in her own way, she might have cried in private. When she was dying herself she was stoically and we talked about it with each other with sadness but no tears. She left me her books and one of her poetry books fell open at "Crossing the Bar". That made me cry when I came across it. | |||
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"I find crying shows you have feelings and caring. But in saying that i know one man that would go out his way to help outhers and is very caring but ive never seen him cry. My aunt never, ever cried, even when her mother died. Lots of people called her hard or said she had no feelings. I thought that was unkind of them. Not everyone shows their feelings the same way and nobody is better or worse than another person for showing them differently. Not to mention that nobody truly knows what went on in any particular relationship - we don't all have loveable parents." Or, maybe like my dad she cried when she was alone but would never own up to it. Some people only let their emotions out in complete privacy. If I hadn't heard my dad when his mum died, I would still believe it was something he never did. That generation saw it as a weakness never to be shown or shared. | |||
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"I hate crying. It's not a "man up be a man man man MAN!!!!"thing, I just hate the way it feels, I can't see properly, my jaw aches from fighting it back, the runny nose everything about it just sucks. That said, certain things trigger me into sobbing my heart out. The haka Seeing the Staffordshire regiment marching. The living years by Mike and the mechanics. In pursuit of happiness staring Will Smith When goose dies in top gun " It's ok KB...don't fight it...let it out! | |||
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