# Are you getting less or more openly emotional as you age?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 6, 2010, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-getting-less-or-more-openly-emotional-as-you-age/538492 "2010-05-06T07:51:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![HelloKitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecccb3/32.png) [@HelloKitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelloKitty)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2010, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-getting-less-or-more-openly-emotional-as-you-age/538492/41 "2010-05-11T19:54:13Z")

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Since I had my first and only child at age 43 in 2008, I have found that my emotions are overflowing pretty much on a daily basis.

I really can cry at the drop of a hat. Any stories I run across that have to do with a child being abused or hurt I simply cannot. handle. and will burst into tears. Same with any animals being hurt or abused. Blubbering idiot if I see or read something like that. Conversely, seeing kids do cute things or just watching them play and laugh causes me to cry from joyfulness sometimes, too.

And I’m also a big sports fan…stories of triumph or stories of harship in sports will also make me very emotional. I am not even a very big Saints fan but when they won the SuperBowl I was in tears every time Drew Brees and his little boy were on TV. Such an inspirational story.

For me, I think going through being pregnant and childbirth combined with being older and more sure of myself has caused me to be more openly emotional. I kind of like it. I feel more in touch with the world. Hard to explain, really.

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