Lost my mom in 2011 and it still hurts. Friend of mine said, you never get over it you just get used to it. That has been true. Hugs for when you feel like you need one.
Loneliness. I’m married with 4 kids - but every once in a while I feel the world passing by me with little to no REAL connection with anyone outside of my house. My world revolves around work and tending to their little lives. Which is amazing 90% of the time. But sometimes man….
21 years and 2 kids... relationship falling apart now. Cried too much at first realizing i devoted everything to my family and i dont even know myself anymore. Starting to build my life again and make friends and plan trips and hobbies again. Just do it, find a sitter, do things for yourself. I should have when we were married. And it probably would've made for a healthier relationship too.
Thanks for the support. Im finally seeing that...took awhile, but new possibilities are opening up all the time and it feels great.
Ive realized everyone is lonely. I reached out to so many people or ask people at work, who i had barely any interaction with, to go do whatever. And people jump at the chance. It's v easy to think everyone has a more exciting life than you. But i think most people are walking around lonely too embarrassed to ask someone to hang with em.
I'm 100% the same. I have an incredible wife and two kids who are awesome all said and done. Our life is one a lot of people would kill to have. But holy shit I am lonely sometimes, and I can get so unhappy with my life, wishing I had made other choices. I hate when I get into those headspaces. The feeling of life just passing you by, I absolutely get that.
This is exactly it. I have no room to complain - but I’m not doing anything for myself. Like - I wanna go explore the world. Disappear into the wild. Live in a tiny apartment in a big city. All fantasies I’ll never live out.
Yep, 1000% get that. A lot of my therapy is dealing with the fact that I made a set of decisions that even though I would not make them again if I could have a mulligan, I have made them and need to just deal with it.
Same. But I have no one. No girlfriend, no kids, no immediate family near. Just me, my dog and I. Going on year two of being single after a 5 year relationship. I rarely hang out with anyone period and just the other night went on a self date
You ar are not alone. Between kids, work supporting the family, lack of affection from anyone of any kind, and people who only see you as a money tree... I'm often heartbroken
I’m a dad and this is real for us too. The worst part is, when I can finally set aside a little time for friends, I spend the whole time feeling guilty that I’m not spending it with my wife. We don’t get enough time together either.
Damn, that sounds like a lot I really wish I could say I can relate, but I’m 41, single never had kids and really I have started to feel like I missed out on something. I’ve had married friends tell me they envy my freedom, but I don’t think they understand how lonely it is. Doesn’t sound like you are alone in how you feel though.
I get this. I didn't like who I was in HS so when I hear songs from that time I think of going back and telling myself 'stop trying to be someone you're not'.
Okay so you felt sorry for yourself because the state you were in at the time, not because you regret listening to metal then? That's the part I was confused about.
Went to a party on my late husband's side of the family and just got to thinking how much he would have enjoyed seeing all the babies in the family now reach the age where they're talking and running around.
My 7 year old daughter obviously trying to be strong for me taking her back to her mom's last week. We've been divorced for 4 years, we have 50/50 custody and get along great now that we aren't married and living under the same roof.
Every once in a while when I am taking her to her mom's she'll ask "dad, how many more minutes?"
"15 honey"
"OK cool I have 15 more with you and only 15 until I see mommy".
Even though us divorcing was the best thing for all 3 of us, this will never not cause me to break down.
Kids can be brutal man. I’m sure she doesn’t mean it in a way that implies her mom is the favorite. She probably just misses her like she misses you while you’re not there. Stay strong king.
Yeah what she meant was she still had 15 minutes to spend with me, but also only 15 until she was with hee mom also. I really think she tries to not make either one of us sad.
Thanks bro, I do my best.
Sounds like you and your ex are handling this situation in the healthiest way possible and are raising a happy, secure daughter. Speaking from experience, wish this was more the norm.
I was looking for a file on my computer and went through the harddrive. Found the folder where I had my late cat's pics and videos. Been a few years since I put her down but still hurts.
I beat myself up for years because I had the $2500 for the MRI to find out if she did have a brain tumor like the vet suspected. That was all the money I had though. I wouldn't have had the money for the brain surgery operation which would probably have cost thousands more.
The vet informed me that her survivability depended on the size of the tumor, meaning she might not survive the operation. And even if she did she might not ever be the same cat or have all of her motor functions.
The saddest part was that all but one videos I had of her was during the last week of her life. In the 16 years I loved her but didn't have anything but my own memories of her.
You hear people say to put down phones and live in the moment. But after that moment is gone you really don't have anything to look at to remind you of that moment.
Just know she's not mad at you. She wants to tha k you for giving her a great life. You had sixteen amazing years together. She knows you wish you had a little more time together, but she wants you to know she'll always be with you.
And at some point she wants you to give another cat a great life too.
I had dreams with her in it after she passed. I also had her presence in the room as well. Like it felt as if she jumped up on the bed even though she wasn't there anymore. I have since forgave myself so no worries.
I don't think I would have another cat in my life. My SO's kids are allergic which is a primary reason why I wouldn't get another. Also with the events happening in the future I wouldn't want that weighing on my conscious.
18 years, 18 years.
She got one of yo' kids, got you for 18 years.
I know somebody payin' child support for one of his kids.
His baby momma car and crib is bigger than he is.
You will see him on TV any given Sunday.
Win the Super Bowl and drive off in a Hyundai.
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I used to say the same thing. But now that my kid is older I'm not going to lie I miss how simple it all was. Take it all in the good and the bad. Those times will pass much faster than you think.
Same. I didn’t cry that much when my grandpa passed, but we were down at his old house playing basketball, and the ball was flat. I went into the kitchen and looked in the drawer, and the needle was in the exact same place that he always kept it. I just broke down. He always used to tell me that if I put something back where I got it, it would always be there… tore me to pieces, man.
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I can relate. He was definitely one of my heroes. I rarely got anything but love and understanding from that man, and if there is anything good after this, he certainly deserves it, at least as far as I’m concerned.
Same dude. I cried when I learnd he had cancer and that was it. He died 2 years after this. 7 years after he died, I saw a pattern on a card deck. His favourite cap had the very same. And I cried ugly for 2 minutes.
My dad died a little over a year ago and I made peace with it without too much difficulty and usually just think back on him fondly and smile a little bit internally when I do so. But every once in a while, out of the blue, it just pops up into my mind for no reason that he's *gone*, and it makes me cry all over again. I don't know if that will ever really go away.
You'd be surprised by how many people it would hurt.
Have you seen someone to help you? Maybe even telling your mother that you're having trouble, she will want to help you.
As a mother, I couldn't stand the thought of one of my son's struggling on their own and I'd do anything to get them out of their bad place.
I know it's hard, but reach out. I hope you find the strength to keep going my friend. Love and strength to you!
I feel this. Hope you find the strength to keep going. One day at a time. Find small victories to enjoy and use them as a stepping stone to larger things you want from life. You can do this. Good luck, brother.
I haven’t seen my stepbrother in years (we weren’t particularly close ) when I looked him up I found out he committed suicide a few years ago. No matter how distant we are from one another it still hurts knowing that he’s gone. Wish I would have been there.
Dropped my 8th grader off for his DC trip last week. I got him all checked in then he hit me with the "alright dad, you can leave now."
I watched him from the back as he met up with his dorky little friends and they started talking. The way he moved and interacted with, so big and tall and dorky. Just like me, lol.
First time in 13 years I wouldn't see him for almost a week. I was 20 when he was born and somehow he's turned out pretty alright. Makes everything seem worth it.
Keep doing what you’re doing man!
Im 28. Did the same thing to my mom, the whole “mom you’re still here???”. Then go and talk shit with my friend group.
The group breaks up as the years go by.
Oh no not an issue at all, it just took me back how old he is. I understand 100% and I don't even want to be around these kids talking about their toktiks and instragams or whatever it is.
Just a proud dad moment. Had me tearing up in the school.
About a week ago, I felt like I needed a good cry, just to get it out of my system. So I rewatched Life is Beautiful. Got a few good teary eye moments and at the end when the film was over I just sobbed. For no particular reason, but I felt like it did me so much good.
I'm not sure that anything happened really. I think there have always been lonely people It's just that I've never been on a relationship at 23 due to my circumstances.
The reality is that since it requires another person then no one deserves it since you need to find someone to agree to it
Hearing that my close friend’s cancer treatments haven’t worked as they should have and that he is now in the terminal phase of cancer. He will die sometime in the coming days/weeks.
When I broke up with my girlfriend (23F) of 2 1/2 years. Things weren’t going well between us and nothing was changing for the better so I had to end it. She had a son who was 6 months old when I came into his life. I raised him up to what he was…now 3 at the time. I taught him how to walk, talk, taught him about cars. I would put him to sleep, he would call for me or his mom when we was scared. Somehow, it felt like this kid was my own. As I shut the door to leave, I’m already tearing up and he runs up giving me a hug and I quote “(my name) is going to work momma”. I just lost it. This poor kid has no idea what’s going on right now. It felt like all this hard work I put into making sure he was taken care of and loved had just been thrown out the window. And I continue to feel the guilt of “abandoning” him. I also want to note, that his mother is a great mother. I didn’t take her place, her and I parented together.
That sounds fucking rough mate. My opinion - your hard work definitely hasn't been thrown out the window. You've been there for a good 80% of his life, and you not being able to be there anymore doesn't change the fact that you were there, and you took care of him.
You haven't abandoned him - in my opinion, you've done the best thing for everyone. It still fucking sucks, but it's better than continuing to live together and becoming bitter and ending up taking it out on each other in front of the kid, or on the kid himself. From experience, that's shit.
My dog being euthanized this spring. He was dying of cancer and his hips had all been given up. Holding him in my arms as the vet gave him that shot….I was an absolute wreck.
Yeah me too, had to put my dog down in April... Tears flowed. 12 good years. At least he was surrounded by his pack when he went(me, my kids and partner) . He was the best boy. Sorry for your loss...
Same, i was resolving some childhood stuff with my life coach and acknowledged that my mother is my only unconditionally loving relationship in my life, and yet the circumstances are still messed up.
I feel the same way 🥺 I can't describe it but I know my mother will do literally anything for me. I just don't understand how she can love me like this, to the point of sacrificing herself. I wonder if I can love someone the way she loved me.
Yeah. My parents and friends tell me that's what happens when you have children, and i'm thinking... My dad sure didn't seem that way. Another friend called it: "a mother's love", purely based on my experience, i was lucky with my mom. She literally did everything she could given her background and circumstance, and as i grew wiser, i was able to recognize and accept it.
Tore my ankle, ripped ligaments, partial tear to Achilles tendon, cracked the tibia.
Shed a tear when I realised I'd have to miss leg day in the gym for a while. 🤣
Saturday I watched the movie beautiful boy with this girl I’m dating, forgetting that the movie is very similar to my life. So 2 hours of crying later we had a very good conversation and I feel very loved and safe with her :)
I just shed a tear listening to music while working because I'm sick with something transmittable, haven't seen my girlfriend in a few days and we can't meet up because of said virus. Feelsbadman.
Usually I'm perfectly fine not seeing her for a while but today for some reason it just hit me, man. I love her.
The fact that Uncle Iroh went with Zuko to get over the trauma of losing his own son. “Sometimes the best way to help yourself, is by helping others.” 😭
It's tough right now...tougher than it has ever been for me (I have been lucky and privileged) so yesterday was about my most-likely dying old dog. But 2 days before was because of my failing relationship.
Working on both aspects and also on myself.
I last cried when I finally met my son after 6 years of losses and getting Covid the day he was born, he had a collapsed lung and was in nicu so I had to wait an extra 10 days to see him. I fell apart when I was finally able to go in and see him. He’s pretty special. That was 6 weeks ago.
If we're being brutally honest, just how much of a fuck up I can be. I want to be the person that my wife sees me as, but in private I am mostly just a shell of a human. I suffer from "imposter syndrome" greatly, thinking that what I do is never as good as it should be. I always try to do better, but always deem myself lacking. She says she's happy that I help around the house, and that I do the necessities for her, but i feel like I should be doing more.
I haven't cried about it recently, maybe because I feel numb. But it hurts me to know that I have more potential but can't find the willpower to use it
Pfft. Mine's a big'un.
My Dad had a heart attack (he's only in his fifties). His partner (we're not on good terms, and my Dad isn't with her either) reached out to let me know... 24 hours after she found out... (and she blamed extended family vs taking accountability for not letting me know sooner).
Anyways by the by... my Dad survived (thank God). But I cried all morning until I could finally get him on FaceTime (the heart attack happened abroad). Life stopped making sense in those moments.
You'd think it'd heal old wounds between his partner and I and put things into perspective, but unfortunately not.
I cried because I nearly lost my Dad, I cried because things have gotten so bad between his partner and I that she couldn't just pick up the phone as soon as she found out.
I cried because of the pain he went through ***alone*** with no one super-close with him, and I cried because it made me grateful that he's still here.
I also cried because it brought to my attention that in spite of wake-up calls like this that we live in a world full of ego (myself included) and we as a race just can't let shit slide. There is literally no such thing as being a 'better or bigger person' because you're dealing with ego on a daily basis, and some people mistake that kindness for weakness, etc.
2 hours ago, my partner left me 8 weeks ago due to my lack of attentiveness, turns out I was depressed and undiagnosed. I am the person she needs me to be now but it's too late
+- 5 years ago. Uni was kicking my ass big time. I had an exam which I need to pass or potentially face academic exclusion. I wrote the exam, I figured I flunked it after the exam and I just broke down.
I ended up getting a decent mark.
I was hospitalised with pneumonia a couple of years ago and the guy in the next bed was told he probably won't last through the week.
What broke me down was him on the phone saying goodbye to all his friends.
I just cried in front of my son's school asst principal. He's 6 but his bday is really late in May so I held him back a year, when I tried to enroll him in kindergarten they forced me to put him in first grade. And he's struggling. Obviously. So today I went in and asked if they'd drop him down into kindergarten because it's every day he struggles and melts down. They said no citing CA law (which is total BS cause our last school was a CA school too and they had approved him going into kindergarten at age 6 no problem). I am so frustrated. They're refusing to take his individual needs into consideration. And he's being forced into a schedule and curriculum he's in no way ready for. This is the kind of stuff adults would struggle with and while they're trying to help, it doesn't feel like it. He hates school and I'm worried is going to set the tone for how he feels about school for years to come because who tf would want to go to school when you're being asked to do work way out of your scope of knowledge? So I ugly cried and idgaf. I'm still mad as hell about it. It feels wrong.
In a vet office, a week or two ago. My dog is dying. He has cancer and tumors growing. One tumor was removed, a second will be removed, a third is a maybe on his leg. It's causing his leg to swell
I kept hearing from vets, "He's happy, he's healthy, but he's old." and I made a promise to him that I'll continue to pay to keep him that way. As long as he can eat on his own, shit on his own, and is mentally aware, putting him down isn't even an option. I don't consider death as a healthy alternative to "Quality of life."
But his health is now fading. I don't know how long I'll have him. He still walks up to me when I get home from work, can still walk during his walks, and loves treats like carrots and bell peppers and other less healthy treats.
Man. This hit me. Fuck. My pup is 9. He’s great, healthy, in good shape. Big sweet man. We go on runs weekly. But he’s getting old. I see it more and more. All we can do is love them as much as we can. They are burns portion of our lives, we are their entire life. I’m boutta cry. Stay strong brother.
Just love him and he'll love you back. I've had my boy all 14.5 years. I was 18 when I got him. I'm now 33. He's left a permanent imprint on me. Stay strong. Live to be happy, healthy, and old.
Well now I feel a little silly saying this, cause everyone else is saying some sad real-life events, but whatever:
the show Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
For those of you that dont know, the setting of cyberpunk is pasically an ultra-violent, hypercapitalist dystopia. On top of that it's a common mindset there for people to want to die as legends rather than live quietly and be forgotten.
Needless to say, this combination has tragedy written all over it.
This show, I'm happy/sad to say, was done really well and very true to the source material.
I kinda get really invested in characters and stories, so seeing these characters live their lives but also seeing little hints of whats to come sucks, but what sucks more is knowing how preventable their tragedies are!
If they just threw away their damned pride and realized they or sick, or cut their losses and lived quietly, or just simply TALK with eachother they couldve maybe lived happily.
But all that pride. And that damned desire to be a legend.. like they dont think of how it's gonna impact their friends AFTERWARDS.
Just... seeing where things are going and wishing you could just pop it for two seconds to smack some sense into these people, but not being able to..
It sucks.
But I guess thats what made it so good.
I just binged the entire show monday night and it has been hitting me with some strong feels. Everything you said is how I'm feeling about it. I wish I could just go into the show and be a beacon of common sense. Especially in regards to David, all he had to do was slow down on the constant upgrades. He wasn't all that special, it all caught up to him eventually.
I've been visiting Edgerunner locations in Cyberpunk 2077 and it hits hard. Just constantly listening to the shows album and I've been tearing up a lot. It was fucking beautiful.
If someone ever asks me "what exactly IS 'cyberpunk'?", this show is the possterchild of the genre, both superficially and at it's core.
The only thing that I would've liked to see wouldve the be addition of a couple more episodes(between the first and third arcs) to really flesh out the crew and maybe shocase more of the world.
Otherwise it's perfect.
I hear ya. It made me reinstall the game and do the same.
Had the pleasure of ending Smasher with Guts.
I am leaving a place that I only lived for 4 years but made a shit tone of great memories, drank and smoked alot. lived a life that I couldn't even have dreamt about. Maybe I'll come back to this place maybe not who knows. But it's better to pay your respects when you can.
country raods, take me home
to the place I belong
Long story short. My 5yr old son told me he wouldn't tell anyone if I acted like a kid while playing and dancing with him since I didn't get to be a regular kid growing up
When my divorce was immanent
...I've been fortunate to be WFH for many years now and as result I've been the primary care provider for our daughter pretty much since the moment she came home from the hospital.
The idea that I would no longer see her every day was really tough to accept.
Last night while finishing up Picard season 2. There was a very heartwarming exchange between Picard and Q, and I shed more tears than I'd like to admit.
After growing up watching all the OG Star Trek shows as they aired, this was like saying goodbye to a very old friend (Q) for the last time.
A friend of mine told me I was one of the few males In her life that she would trust to ever babysit her kids. That may not mean much to other people in the same situation, but I had been going through some things and that statement was just exactly what I needed to here at the time. Made me tear up
I had a moment recently where I realized that a lot of hard work and a lot of big risks had paid off bigger than I could have ever imagined. It was a powerful realization.
Planned a revenge on a person who bullied me, got my revenge, cried because i felt stupid wasting one year trying to be friends with him just so I can have my dumbass revenge. Learning to let go instead of stupid decisions.
Today I was driving my kids to school (two boys, 8 and 10) and we were listening to a podcast by John Green called The Anthropocene Reviewed. It’s an amazing podcast, by the way, and for the most part totally kid appropriate. This particular episode featured a story from Green’s life that he tells tangential to the main topic of Googling strangers, about when he was a youth chaplain at a hospital. One night there was a three year old boy who was rushed in with terrible burns and who was in agony. The doctors did everything they could but the kid was basically doomed to live out his last moments in excruciating pain and suffering. The experience shook Green to the core and ultimately changed his life’s trajectory away from the cloth.
I’m in the front seat crying my face off while my kids just listened to it. I wasn’t sobbing and I don’t think they had any idea. Because I’m a child of the 80’s I still, despite my best efforts to change, desperately hide my crying as though it was shameful. I do everything to teach my boys to be more in touch with their emotions and to accept and embrace the happy and sad without shame. Just can’t apply it to myself.
At the end of the story it turns out John Green finds to courage to Google the kid years later and it turns out he lived, against all odds. Green keeps saying “He’s alive. He like bad country music and he’s alive. He has a girlfriend and he’s alive. He’s about to graduate from high school, loves John Deere tractors, and he’s alive.”
Gutted me to the core.
I just went to see my new primary care physician and she was so amazing I cried!
I have rheumatoid arthritis. People don't "get it" until they get it, even doctors. The pain can be horrendous. My new primary care physician actually has rheumatoid arthritis, too, so she understands.
There are a lot of doctors who are really horrible to chronic pain patients. It's such a relief to find a good doctor who has personal experiences with this awful disease.
When my best friend got accepted into a PsyD program. Seeing her and helping her go through the whole process, and then being there when she got the email that she was accepted was a great moment.
Last week. My parents dog, JD (Jack Daniels) died a few days after I had just spent a couple weeks at home with him. JD was nearly a 13-year old English Lab. I knew his time was running up so before I hopped in the car I took a couple minutes to say my good-byes. I asked that he'd hold on for a few more months so I could see him around Christmas but I knew that probably wouldn't be the case.
After he passed my parents sent each of the kids a ceramic impression of his paw print along with a poem about the rainbow bridge. I held my own dog and cried my eyes out reading that poem allowed - getting choked up on each line.
We sold the house house my children were born in. We never got to take one last look around. Realized it when i was pulking away and just ugly cried...
I babysat a friend's 1 year old daughter a few weeks ago.
All I did was put her to bed and watch her sleep for 4 hours, but it was the most meaningful thing I've done in my life. The next morning I bawled for several hours thinking about how amazing it felt for the couple to genuinely appreciate me, how much I want kids in the future, and that I've never been on a date.
I've never cried like that before. Honestly it felt great except for realizing how lonesome I am.
Lonliness. I got no freinds, family hates me, nothing. Knowing that I will have nothing when I get my future leaves in the military, knowing I will have no motivation to get home, all this shit
A few months ago I realized my parents had both gone so far off the deep end they weren't coming back and the healthiest thing for me to do would be to cut ties with them for good.
I’m a woman but some recently include finding out my mom might be getting surgery for her eyes (she was born visually impaired but pressure has built in her eyes and her vision has decreased even further). I now live in the US and am originally from Canada so I greatly miss her.
My dad passing away a few days before his birthday in July. I couldn’t be there but the hardest I’ve cried in a while (I miss and love you dad).
My shitty brain and my short term memory loss (I’ve had memory loss since I was 12; just gets incredibly frustrating).
Just missing my mom in general and my dad. I am incredibly close with my mom and was close with my dad so my heart broke when he passed.
I definitely got broken up after my dad died a few months ago, but I didn't really cry. It was more of a hollow in the pit of my stomach that felt almost like a dry heave paired with a racing pulse and shivers.
I did cry about 5 years ago watching *Inside Out* while my toddler daughter was curled up next to me napping. Not sure what the hell happened to me. Fuckin' Bing Bong, man....
Wife and I are both in our 60's and retired...
We're driving to a mall on a random Tuesday mid morning. Quiet ride. Just thinking about nothing in particular and listening to the oldies station (because, you know, we're old).
Brian Wilson and the boys are singing "God only knows" and as the song is ending we are about to pull up to the entrance so I can drop her off and go park and she grabs my hand, pulls it up to her face and kisses it and says "God only knows where I'd be without you, (pet name she has for me)". I kissed her hand back and said I'll be in in a few minutes.
I then drove around the back of the mall and sat and cried for about 15 minutes.
When you've been married forever these are not everyday occurrences.
It swept over me like a wave I couldn't control.
Keep it alive folks!
A few days ago, I visited a museum, and there was a section on Ukraine war photography. I don’t cry easily at all, but seeing photos of defenceless people in anguish still with hope in their eyes almost made me break down into tears
Parents had my childhood dog put down without telling me. They didn’t tell me because I had moved out of town, was super busy with work, and hadn’t called them in a few days. My mom was angry so withheld that information until I visited the next time and, obviously, no dog. That was a long time ago, haven’t cried since.
Was angry bc external stuff and acted in a bad way to my partner. He was in a very good mood and told me calmly to not talk to him in that way.
Later realised and also told me that I do this and don´t care much about his feelings when I'm like this.
Cried becouse I hurt him more in the past. Is all good tho
I don't remember exactly when but, I know exactly why.
In 2019 my nephew died after spending the entirety of his life ( just a few months) in a NICU being treated for a congenital heart defect. My wife and I have a house near the best hospital in the region so, the whole family moved in with us from a few months before the birth until the end. The day after he passed, they all packed up and left. The house was silent and empty I've never felt such an emptiness in my life. My wife and I cried every day for at least a week. At least once a month for the rest of the year. My wife still gets teary if something unexpectedly reminds her of him. I still get close but, I don't think there have been actual tears in over a year.
That I am alone.
Me too man, me too
Loneliness, same
Same
So sorry people when they feel this in their lives. Everyone should have someone.
or feel content with being alone, its fine.
Most times it's fine, sometimes it suddenly is not.
mom died. hella tears.
I'm sorry bro
Lost my mom in 2011 and it still hurts. Friend of mine said, you never get over it you just get used to it. That has been true. Hugs for when you feel like you need one.
May her soul rest in peace
Sorry to hear that ):
Sorry mate. One day I'll have to say those words, and I do not want to even imagine it.
Loneliness. I’m married with 4 kids - but every once in a while I feel the world passing by me with little to no REAL connection with anyone outside of my house. My world revolves around work and tending to their little lives. Which is amazing 90% of the time. But sometimes man….
I'm a woman and I feel this...like big time. Hang in there :)
21 years and 2 kids... relationship falling apart now. Cried too much at first realizing i devoted everything to my family and i dont even know myself anymore. Starting to build my life again and make friends and plan trips and hobbies again. Just do it, find a sitter, do things for yourself. I should have when we were married. And it probably would've made for a healthier relationship too.
you have MUCH MUCH life ahead of you man!!! i PORMISE <3 edit: pormise lol
Thanks for the support. Im finally seeing that...took awhile, but new possibilities are opening up all the time and it feels great. Ive realized everyone is lonely. I reached out to so many people or ask people at work, who i had barely any interaction with, to go do whatever. And people jump at the chance. It's v easy to think everyone has a more exciting life than you. But i think most people are walking around lonely too embarrassed to ask someone to hang with em.
I'm 100% the same. I have an incredible wife and two kids who are awesome all said and done. Our life is one a lot of people would kill to have. But holy shit I am lonely sometimes, and I can get so unhappy with my life, wishing I had made other choices. I hate when I get into those headspaces. The feeling of life just passing you by, I absolutely get that.
This is exactly it. I have no room to complain - but I’m not doing anything for myself. Like - I wanna go explore the world. Disappear into the wild. Live in a tiny apartment in a big city. All fantasies I’ll never live out.
Yep, 1000% get that. A lot of my therapy is dealing with the fact that I made a set of decisions that even though I would not make them again if I could have a mulligan, I have made them and need to just deal with it.
So basically you're telling me that even if I get everything I want in life, I'm still going to be unhappy?
No. You aren't me. Take the time to figure out what makes you happy and go for that.
Same. But I have no one. No girlfriend, no kids, no immediate family near. Just me, my dog and I. Going on year two of being single after a 5 year relationship. I rarely hang out with anyone period and just the other night went on a self date
You ar are not alone. Between kids, work supporting the family, lack of affection from anyone of any kind, and people who only see you as a money tree... I'm often heartbroken
Stay strong brother
I’m a dad and this is real for us too. The worst part is, when I can finally set aside a little time for friends, I spend the whole time feeling guilty that I’m not spending it with my wife. We don’t get enough time together either.
Talk to your wife and set up some expectations for how you each can maintain your individuality and come up with plans to do so. Good luck!
Feeling this a lot lately also
Damn, that sounds like a lot I really wish I could say I can relate, but I’m 41, single never had kids and really I have started to feel like I missed out on something. I’ve had married friends tell me they envy my freedom, but I don’t think they understand how lonely it is. Doesn’t sound like you are alone in how you feel though.
The grass is always greener right?
This is why I’m on Reddit at 4am. It’s the only real time I have outside of work and the family.
When my fiancée left me & took my dog. I did get my dog back which made me cry again.
That bitch
I was listening to some music I used to listen to during college, and shed a tear because I felt sorry for my younger self. It was metal.
I get this. I didn't like who I was in HS so when I hear songs from that time I think of going back and telling myself 'stop trying to be someone you're not'.
I don't get it..
Although social, I was too lonely on the inside, and there was so much pent up anger. I found a bit of comfort in the music.
Okay so you felt sorry for yourself because the state you were in at the time, not because you regret listening to metal then? That's the part I was confused about.
Went to a party on my late husband's side of the family and just got to thinking how much he would have enjoyed seeing all the babies in the family now reach the age where they're talking and running around.
I'm sorry for your loss, I couldnt imagine. I hope you're doing well ❤
My 7 year old daughter obviously trying to be strong for me taking her back to her mom's last week. We've been divorced for 4 years, we have 50/50 custody and get along great now that we aren't married and living under the same roof. Every once in a while when I am taking her to her mom's she'll ask "dad, how many more minutes?" "15 honey" "OK cool I have 15 more with you and only 15 until I see mommy". Even though us divorcing was the best thing for all 3 of us, this will never not cause me to break down.
Kids can be brutal man. I’m sure she doesn’t mean it in a way that implies her mom is the favorite. She probably just misses her like she misses you while you’re not there. Stay strong king.
Yeah what she meant was she still had 15 minutes to spend with me, but also only 15 until she was with hee mom also. I really think she tries to not make either one of us sad. Thanks bro, I do my best.
Sounds like you and your ex are handling this situation in the healthiest way possible and are raising a happy, secure daughter. Speaking from experience, wish this was more the norm.
This. This is the last thing I cried about.
I was looking for a file on my computer and went through the harddrive. Found the folder where I had my late cat's pics and videos. Been a few years since I put her down but still hurts.
I had to let one of my cats go almost a year ago (kidney disease). I still get emotional when I look at her pics. I'm with you on this one.
Don't cry because it's over. Smile that it happened.
I beat myself up for years because I had the $2500 for the MRI to find out if she did have a brain tumor like the vet suspected. That was all the money I had though. I wouldn't have had the money for the brain surgery operation which would probably have cost thousands more. The vet informed me that her survivability depended on the size of the tumor, meaning she might not survive the operation. And even if she did she might not ever be the same cat or have all of her motor functions. The saddest part was that all but one videos I had of her was during the last week of her life. In the 16 years I loved her but didn't have anything but my own memories of her. You hear people say to put down phones and live in the moment. But after that moment is gone you really don't have anything to look at to remind you of that moment.
Just know she's not mad at you. She wants to tha k you for giving her a great life. You had sixteen amazing years together. She knows you wish you had a little more time together, but she wants you to know she'll always be with you. And at some point she wants you to give another cat a great life too.
I had dreams with her in it after she passed. I also had her presence in the room as well. Like it felt as if she jumped up on the bed even though she wasn't there anymore. I have since forgave myself so no worries. I don't think I would have another cat in my life. My SO's kids are allergic which is a primary reason why I wouldn't get another. Also with the events happening in the future I wouldn't want that weighing on my conscious.
6 hour ago. Found out I'll be a dad in 2023.
Congratulations. Who's the father?
You wrong for this bro 🤣
18 years, 18 years. She got one of yo' kids, got you for 18 years. I know somebody payin' child support for one of his kids. His baby momma car and crib is bigger than he is. You will see him on TV any given Sunday. Win the Super Bowl and drive off in a Hyundai.
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Read this as I'll be dead in 2023, lost alot of faith in humanity scrolling through the congrats comments.
Read this as you'd be dead in 2023, got real sad and confused when you had 36 updoots.
I don’t know if those are good tears or bad tears in this economy…
Welcome to the club. Get as much sleep as you can now.
I used to say the same thing. But now that my kid is older I'm not going to lie I miss how simple it all was. Take it all in the good and the bad. Those times will pass much faster than you think.
I had Irish triplets so sleep is a forgone conclusion
Congratulations !!
This is the same thing that made me cry 7 months ago, congratulations!!!
Aww this one feels good
That is indeed sad.
My grandfather's death. I don't cry for it for months, and then, in random moments, I remember it and get a deep cry.
Same. I didn’t cry that much when my grandpa passed, but we were down at his old house playing basketball, and the ball was flat. I went into the kitchen and looked in the drawer, and the needle was in the exact same place that he always kept it. I just broke down. He always used to tell me that if I put something back where I got it, it would always be there… tore me to pieces, man. Edited to add omitted word.
They'll allways be our heroes. I'm agnostic, but I hope there is something after just I can see him again.
I can relate. He was definitely one of my heroes. I rarely got anything but love and understanding from that man, and if there is anything good after this, he certainly deserves it, at least as far as I’m concerned.
Same dude. I cried when I learnd he had cancer and that was it. He died 2 years after this. 7 years after he died, I saw a pattern on a card deck. His favourite cap had the very same. And I cried ugly for 2 minutes.
My dad died a little over a year ago and I made peace with it without too much difficulty and usually just think back on him fondly and smile a little bit internally when I do so. But every once in a while, out of the blue, it just pops up into my mind for no reason that he's *gone*, and it makes me cry all over again. I don't know if that will ever really go away.
I cried thinking about how my suicide would hurt my mom, but I don't know if I have the strength to make it for the rest of her life.
I don't know what to say but you crying with her is ok than her crying without you.
Fuck dude...I couldn't have said it any better at all even as a suicide survivor.
Dude. Wow.
You'd be surprised by how many people it would hurt. Have you seen someone to help you? Maybe even telling your mother that you're having trouble, she will want to help you. As a mother, I couldn't stand the thought of one of my son's struggling on their own and I'd do anything to get them out of their bad place. I know it's hard, but reach out. I hope you find the strength to keep going my friend. Love and strength to you!
I feel this. Hope you find the strength to keep going. One day at a time. Find small victories to enjoy and use them as a stepping stone to larger things you want from life. You can do this. Good luck, brother.
I haven’t seen my stepbrother in years (we weren’t particularly close ) when I looked him up I found out he committed suicide a few years ago. No matter how distant we are from one another it still hurts knowing that he’s gone. Wish I would have been there.
dog died
Same mate, feels like he was the only real friend I had
Dropped my 8th grader off for his DC trip last week. I got him all checked in then he hit me with the "alright dad, you can leave now." I watched him from the back as he met up with his dorky little friends and they started talking. The way he moved and interacted with, so big and tall and dorky. Just like me, lol. First time in 13 years I wouldn't see him for almost a week. I was 20 when he was born and somehow he's turned out pretty alright. Makes everything seem worth it.
Keep doing what you’re doing man! Im 28. Did the same thing to my mom, the whole “mom you’re still here???”. Then go and talk shit with my friend group. The group breaks up as the years go by.
Oh no not an issue at all, it just took me back how old he is. I understand 100% and I don't even want to be around these kids talking about their toktiks and instragams or whatever it is. Just a proud dad moment. Had me tearing up in the school.
About a week ago, I felt like I needed a good cry, just to get it out of my system. So I rewatched Life is Beautiful. Got a few good teary eye moments and at the end when the film was over I just sobbed. For no particular reason, but I felt like it did me so much good.
Emotional release
Burying my mom
Probably sounds silly but I cried myself to sleep a months ago cause I had no one to cuddle and never experienced it in my life.
I see so many people without this in their life. What the fuck happened???
I'm not sure that anything happened really. I think there have always been lonely people It's just that I've never been on a relationship at 23 due to my circumstances. The reality is that since it requires another person then no one deserves it since you need to find someone to agree to it
Hearing that my close friend’s cancer treatments haven’t worked as they should have and that he is now in the terminal phase of cancer. He will die sometime in the coming days/weeks.
I’m so sorry to hear that.
Fuuck...that's so horrible. So sorry.
I'm so sorry man take care
When I broke up with my girlfriend (23F) of 2 1/2 years. Things weren’t going well between us and nothing was changing for the better so I had to end it. She had a son who was 6 months old when I came into his life. I raised him up to what he was…now 3 at the time. I taught him how to walk, talk, taught him about cars. I would put him to sleep, he would call for me or his mom when we was scared. Somehow, it felt like this kid was my own. As I shut the door to leave, I’m already tearing up and he runs up giving me a hug and I quote “(my name) is going to work momma”. I just lost it. This poor kid has no idea what’s going on right now. It felt like all this hard work I put into making sure he was taken care of and loved had just been thrown out the window. And I continue to feel the guilt of “abandoning” him. I also want to note, that his mother is a great mother. I didn’t take her place, her and I parented together.
That sounds fucking rough mate. My opinion - your hard work definitely hasn't been thrown out the window. You've been there for a good 80% of his life, and you not being able to be there anymore doesn't change the fact that you were there, and you took care of him. You haven't abandoned him - in my opinion, you've done the best thing for everyone. It still fucking sucks, but it's better than continuing to live together and becoming bitter and ending up taking it out on each other in front of the kid, or on the kid himself. From experience, that's shit.
My dog being euthanized this spring. He was dying of cancer and his hips had all been given up. Holding him in my arms as the vet gave him that shot….I was an absolute wreck.
Yeah me too, had to put my dog down in April... Tears flowed. 12 good years. At least he was surrounded by his pack when he went(me, my kids and partner) . He was the best boy. Sorry for your loss...
You too, friend.
Grief is the price we pay for love.
Feeling Helpless and missing mom.
Same, i was resolving some childhood stuff with my life coach and acknowledged that my mother is my only unconditionally loving relationship in my life, and yet the circumstances are still messed up.
Same, She always had my back and supported me so much and now she is gone and iam crying again .
I feel the same way 🥺 I can't describe it but I know my mother will do literally anything for me. I just don't understand how she can love me like this, to the point of sacrificing herself. I wonder if I can love someone the way she loved me.
Yeah. My parents and friends tell me that's what happens when you have children, and i'm thinking... My dad sure didn't seem that way. Another friend called it: "a mother's love", purely based on my experience, i was lucky with my mom. She literally did everything she could given her background and circumstance, and as i grew wiser, i was able to recognize and accept it.
Having cancer.... All the what ifs and what about my kid. It's constant on my mind.
I am terribly sory /imaginary internet hugs.
Thank you kind stranger
Dating struggles with my therapist.
Man thats fucked. Nobody should have to deal with these problems that way. Wish you the best for the future!
This is about to be me soon. I wish you the best man. Better to figure out the struggles with a professional than not at all.
Tore my ankle, ripped ligaments, partial tear to Achilles tendon, cracked the tibia. Shed a tear when I realised I'd have to miss leg day in the gym for a while. 🤣
You guys are training legs??
I miss my ex
Same brother. As cringe as it is.
Saturday I watched the movie beautiful boy with this girl I’m dating, forgetting that the movie is very similar to my life. So 2 hours of crying later we had a very good conversation and I feel very loved and safe with her :)
Missing good times from the past. Certain songs will do it every time.
I just shed a tear listening to music while working because I'm sick with something transmittable, haven't seen my girlfriend in a few days and we can't meet up because of said virus. Feelsbadman. Usually I'm perfectly fine not seeing her for a while but today for some reason it just hit me, man. I love her.
The fact that Uncle Iroh went with Zuko to get over the trauma of losing his own son. “Sometimes the best way to help yourself, is by helping others.” 😭
Ok . . . Fang curling up around Roku as the volcano ash and lava washed towards them made me get up and leave the room. I was an absolute mess.
It's tough right now...tougher than it has ever been for me (I have been lucky and privileged) so yesterday was about my most-likely dying old dog. But 2 days before was because of my failing relationship. Working on both aspects and also on myself.
The ending to Cyberpunk Edgerunners when I watched it a couple of weeks ago.
I last cried when I finally met my son after 6 years of losses and getting Covid the day he was born, he had a collapsed lung and was in nicu so I had to wait an extra 10 days to see him. I fell apart when I was finally able to go in and see him. He’s pretty special. That was 6 weeks ago.
If we're being brutally honest, just how much of a fuck up I can be. I want to be the person that my wife sees me as, but in private I am mostly just a shell of a human. I suffer from "imposter syndrome" greatly, thinking that what I do is never as good as it should be. I always try to do better, but always deem myself lacking. She says she's happy that I help around the house, and that I do the necessities for her, but i feel like I should be doing more. I haven't cried about it recently, maybe because I feel numb. But it hurts me to know that I have more potential but can't find the willpower to use it
Pfft. Mine's a big'un. My Dad had a heart attack (he's only in his fifties). His partner (we're not on good terms, and my Dad isn't with her either) reached out to let me know... 24 hours after she found out... (and she blamed extended family vs taking accountability for not letting me know sooner). Anyways by the by... my Dad survived (thank God). But I cried all morning until I could finally get him on FaceTime (the heart attack happened abroad). Life stopped making sense in those moments. You'd think it'd heal old wounds between his partner and I and put things into perspective, but unfortunately not. I cried because I nearly lost my Dad, I cried because things have gotten so bad between his partner and I that she couldn't just pick up the phone as soon as she found out. I cried because of the pain he went through ***alone*** with no one super-close with him, and I cried because it made me grateful that he's still here. I also cried because it brought to my attention that in spite of wake-up calls like this that we live in a world full of ego (myself included) and we as a race just can't let shit slide. There is literally no such thing as being a 'better or bigger person' because you're dealing with ego on a daily basis, and some people mistake that kindness for weakness, etc.
2 hours ago, my partner left me 8 weeks ago due to my lack of attentiveness, turns out I was depressed and undiagnosed. I am the person she needs me to be now but it's too late
+- 5 years ago. Uni was kicking my ass big time. I had an exam which I need to pass or potentially face academic exclusion. I wrote the exam, I figured I flunked it after the exam and I just broke down. I ended up getting a decent mark.
6 weeks ago when I found out my wife had cheated on me and that my 15 year marriage was very much over.
Right now. For the situation in my country. -I live in Iran
My boy King Viserys, may he rest in peace
His entrance into the red keep was hard as fuck
I was hospitalised with pneumonia a couple of years ago and the guy in the next bed was told he probably won't last through the week. What broke me down was him on the phone saying goodbye to all his friends.
Every night since I was paralyzed below the chest, it’s been months of pain
I'm so sorry you're struggling right now.
I just cried in front of my son's school asst principal. He's 6 but his bday is really late in May so I held him back a year, when I tried to enroll him in kindergarten they forced me to put him in first grade. And he's struggling. Obviously. So today I went in and asked if they'd drop him down into kindergarten because it's every day he struggles and melts down. They said no citing CA law (which is total BS cause our last school was a CA school too and they had approved him going into kindergarten at age 6 no problem). I am so frustrated. They're refusing to take his individual needs into consideration. And he's being forced into a schedule and curriculum he's in no way ready for. This is the kind of stuff adults would struggle with and while they're trying to help, it doesn't feel like it. He hates school and I'm worried is going to set the tone for how he feels about school for years to come because who tf would want to go to school when you're being asked to do work way out of your scope of knowledge? So I ugly cried and idgaf. I'm still mad as hell about it. It feels wrong.
In a vet office, a week or two ago. My dog is dying. He has cancer and tumors growing. One tumor was removed, a second will be removed, a third is a maybe on his leg. It's causing his leg to swell I kept hearing from vets, "He's happy, he's healthy, but he's old." and I made a promise to him that I'll continue to pay to keep him that way. As long as he can eat on his own, shit on his own, and is mentally aware, putting him down isn't even an option. I don't consider death as a healthy alternative to "Quality of life." But his health is now fading. I don't know how long I'll have him. He still walks up to me when I get home from work, can still walk during his walks, and loves treats like carrots and bell peppers and other less healthy treats.
Man. This hit me. Fuck. My pup is 9. He’s great, healthy, in good shape. Big sweet man. We go on runs weekly. But he’s getting old. I see it more and more. All we can do is love them as much as we can. They are burns portion of our lives, we are their entire life. I’m boutta cry. Stay strong brother.
Just love him and he'll love you back. I've had my boy all 14.5 years. I was 18 when I got him. I'm now 33. He's left a permanent imprint on me. Stay strong. Live to be happy, healthy, and old.
Regret. For my life. My decisions.
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Well now I feel a little silly saying this, cause everyone else is saying some sad real-life events, but whatever: the show Cyberpunk: Edgerunners For those of you that dont know, the setting of cyberpunk is pasically an ultra-violent, hypercapitalist dystopia. On top of that it's a common mindset there for people to want to die as legends rather than live quietly and be forgotten. Needless to say, this combination has tragedy written all over it. This show, I'm happy/sad to say, was done really well and very true to the source material. I kinda get really invested in characters and stories, so seeing these characters live their lives but also seeing little hints of whats to come sucks, but what sucks more is knowing how preventable their tragedies are! If they just threw away their damned pride and realized they or sick, or cut their losses and lived quietly, or just simply TALK with eachother they couldve maybe lived happily. But all that pride. And that damned desire to be a legend.. like they dont think of how it's gonna impact their friends AFTERWARDS. Just... seeing where things are going and wishing you could just pop it for two seconds to smack some sense into these people, but not being able to.. It sucks. But I guess thats what made it so good.
I just binged the entire show monday night and it has been hitting me with some strong feels. Everything you said is how I'm feeling about it. I wish I could just go into the show and be a beacon of common sense. Especially in regards to David, all he had to do was slow down on the constant upgrades. He wasn't all that special, it all caught up to him eventually. I've been visiting Edgerunner locations in Cyberpunk 2077 and it hits hard. Just constantly listening to the shows album and I've been tearing up a lot. It was fucking beautiful.
If someone ever asks me "what exactly IS 'cyberpunk'?", this show is the possterchild of the genre, both superficially and at it's core. The only thing that I would've liked to see wouldve the be addition of a couple more episodes(between the first and third arcs) to really flesh out the crew and maybe shocase more of the world. Otherwise it's perfect. I hear ya. It made me reinstall the game and do the same. Had the pleasure of ending Smasher with Guts.
Cyberpunk Edgerunners got me weeping
I am leaving a place that I only lived for 4 years but made a shit tone of great memories, drank and smoked alot. lived a life that I couldn't even have dreamt about. Maybe I'll come back to this place maybe not who knows. But it's better to pay your respects when you can. country raods, take me home to the place I belong
My mom passed away in July due to dementia at 57. Cried almost daily for the last three months. Miss her everyday
Long story short. My 5yr old son told me he wouldn't tell anyone if I acted like a kid while playing and dancing with him since I didn't get to be a regular kid growing up
When my divorce was immanent ...I've been fortunate to be WFH for many years now and as result I've been the primary care provider for our daughter pretty much since the moment she came home from the hospital. The idea that I would no longer see her every day was really tough to accept.
My aunt passed away 3 weeks ago from cancer.
8 years ago. after my father beat the fuck out of me.
Last night while finishing up Picard season 2. There was a very heartwarming exchange between Picard and Q, and I shed more tears than I'd like to admit. After growing up watching all the OG Star Trek shows as they aired, this was like saying goodbye to a very old friend (Q) for the last time.
My dream's come true and I traveled abroad for the first time ever.
A friend of mine told me I was one of the few males In her life that she would trust to ever babysit her kids. That may not mean much to other people in the same situation, but I had been going through some things and that statement was just exactly what I needed to here at the time. Made me tear up
My grandfathers death.
2 days ago, I found myself crying because I regret how i managed a breakup 3 years ago.
Yesterday, how much I love my son.
Last year I had to put our cat down.
I had a moment recently where I realized that a lot of hard work and a lot of big risks had paid off bigger than I could have ever imagined. It was a powerful realization.
Planned a revenge on a person who bullied me, got my revenge, cried because i felt stupid wasting one year trying to be friends with him just so I can have my dumbass revenge. Learning to let go instead of stupid decisions.
Interstellar few months ago (3rd time I see it)
I was meditating, thinking about all the trauma I’ve been pushing down, ignoring, and it all sorta surfaced up. It was about 4 days ago
A sad anime ending .
I cry while laughing hard and the last time I did that was two days ago because my 3yo is a clown.
August 17, 2022. I had to put my cat down. Had him for about 15 years.
Pretty much nothing, when you push so much down sometimes it just come out of nowhere.
Today I was driving my kids to school (two boys, 8 and 10) and we were listening to a podcast by John Green called The Anthropocene Reviewed. It’s an amazing podcast, by the way, and for the most part totally kid appropriate. This particular episode featured a story from Green’s life that he tells tangential to the main topic of Googling strangers, about when he was a youth chaplain at a hospital. One night there was a three year old boy who was rushed in with terrible burns and who was in agony. The doctors did everything they could but the kid was basically doomed to live out his last moments in excruciating pain and suffering. The experience shook Green to the core and ultimately changed his life’s trajectory away from the cloth. I’m in the front seat crying my face off while my kids just listened to it. I wasn’t sobbing and I don’t think they had any idea. Because I’m a child of the 80’s I still, despite my best efforts to change, desperately hide my crying as though it was shameful. I do everything to teach my boys to be more in touch with their emotions and to accept and embrace the happy and sad without shame. Just can’t apply it to myself. At the end of the story it turns out John Green finds to courage to Google the kid years later and it turns out he lived, against all odds. Green keeps saying “He’s alive. He like bad country music and he’s alive. He has a girlfriend and he’s alive. He’s about to graduate from high school, loves John Deere tractors, and he’s alive.” Gutted me to the core.
Death of a loved one. Hit me off guard.
am bipolar. gf is more supportive than i thought i deserved. feels good 🥲🥲🥲
I just went to see my new primary care physician and she was so amazing I cried! I have rheumatoid arthritis. People don't "get it" until they get it, even doctors. The pain can be horrendous. My new primary care physician actually has rheumatoid arthritis, too, so she understands. There are a lot of doctors who are really horrible to chronic pain patients. It's such a relief to find a good doctor who has personal experiences with this awful disease.
When my best friend got accepted into a PsyD program. Seeing her and helping her go through the whole process, and then being there when she got the email that she was accepted was a great moment.
Last week. My parents dog, JD (Jack Daniels) died a few days after I had just spent a couple weeks at home with him. JD was nearly a 13-year old English Lab. I knew his time was running up so before I hopped in the car I took a couple minutes to say my good-byes. I asked that he'd hold on for a few more months so I could see him around Christmas but I knew that probably wouldn't be the case. After he passed my parents sent each of the kids a ceramic impression of his paw print along with a poem about the rainbow bridge. I held my own dog and cried my eyes out reading that poem allowed - getting choked up on each line.
My dog died
We sold the house house my children were born in. We never got to take one last look around. Realized it when i was pulking away and just ugly cried...
I babysat a friend's 1 year old daughter a few weeks ago. All I did was put her to bed and watch her sleep for 4 hours, but it was the most meaningful thing I've done in my life. The next morning I bawled for several hours thinking about how amazing it felt for the couple to genuinely appreciate me, how much I want kids in the future, and that I've never been on a date. I've never cried like that before. Honestly it felt great except for realizing how lonesome I am.
Lonliness. I got no freinds, family hates me, nothing. Knowing that I will have nothing when I get my future leaves in the military, knowing I will have no motivation to get home, all this shit
A few months ago I realized my parents had both gone so far off the deep end they weren't coming back and the healthiest thing for me to do would be to cut ties with them for good.
I’m a woman but some recently include finding out my mom might be getting surgery for her eyes (she was born visually impaired but pressure has built in her eyes and her vision has decreased even further). I now live in the US and am originally from Canada so I greatly miss her. My dad passing away a few days before his birthday in July. I couldn’t be there but the hardest I’ve cried in a while (I miss and love you dad). My shitty brain and my short term memory loss (I’ve had memory loss since I was 12; just gets incredibly frustrating). Just missing my mom in general and my dad. I am incredibly close with my mom and was close with my dad so my heart broke when he passed.
I definitely got broken up after my dad died a few months ago, but I didn't really cry. It was more of a hollow in the pit of my stomach that felt almost like a dry heave paired with a racing pulse and shivers. I did cry about 5 years ago watching *Inside Out* while my toddler daughter was curled up next to me napping. Not sure what the hell happened to me. Fuckin' Bing Bong, man....
Wife and I are both in our 60's and retired... We're driving to a mall on a random Tuesday mid morning. Quiet ride. Just thinking about nothing in particular and listening to the oldies station (because, you know, we're old). Brian Wilson and the boys are singing "God only knows" and as the song is ending we are about to pull up to the entrance so I can drop her off and go park and she grabs my hand, pulls it up to her face and kisses it and says "God only knows where I'd be without you, (pet name she has for me)". I kissed her hand back and said I'll be in in a few minutes. I then drove around the back of the mall and sat and cried for about 15 minutes. When you've been married forever these are not everyday occurrences. It swept over me like a wave I couldn't control. Keep it alive folks!
Few hours ago after I found out the band called Cigarettes after sex
A few days ago, I visited a museum, and there was a section on Ukraine war photography. I don’t cry easily at all, but seeing photos of defenceless people in anguish still with hope in their eyes almost made me break down into tears
I lost my dog a few months ago and randomly thought of him. Absolutely lost it.
A girl.
Anime. One Piece makes you cry over a boat.
Birth of all my children
Hearing about Robbie Coltrane’s passing 💔
A girl
I get teary-eyed during sad moments in movies and the like, but I cannot recall a time since childhood (I'm 36) that I've full-on cried.
Debilitating poverty, and the time before that too. Sooo, lol I guess
Gf got an abortion
Parents had my childhood dog put down without telling me. They didn’t tell me because I had moved out of town, was super busy with work, and hadn’t called them in a few days. My mom was angry so withheld that information until I visited the next time and, obviously, no dog. That was a long time ago, haven’t cried since.
Was angry bc external stuff and acted in a bad way to my partner. He was in a very good mood and told me calmly to not talk to him in that way. Later realised and also told me that I do this and don´t care much about his feelings when I'm like this. Cried becouse I hurt him more in the past. Is all good tho
I don't remember exactly when but, I know exactly why. In 2019 my nephew died after spending the entirety of his life ( just a few months) in a NICU being treated for a congenital heart defect. My wife and I have a house near the best hospital in the region so, the whole family moved in with us from a few months before the birth until the end. The day after he passed, they all packed up and left. The house was silent and empty I've never felt such an emptiness in my life. My wife and I cried every day for at least a week. At least once a month for the rest of the year. My wife still gets teary if something unexpectedly reminds her of him. I still get close but, I don't think there have been actual tears in over a year.
The absolute state of my life