Apparently it is actually fairly common for many folks, especially men, to have a phase in their life in which they go for many consecutive years without really crying once.
For me, that was age 14 to 25. During that time period I never really once truly wept. I have heard of other men going for as long as twenty years without really crying either.
How about you guys?
Probably several yeas, but I can’t recall when. I cry at movies, books, country songs, so if I’m not geting exposure to anough of those media, maybe a span of years. I rarely cry about real life things, but I’m a sucker for tear-jerkers – often not the same specific stimuli that affect other people, so I’ll be sniffling by myself, while everyone else is laughing.
Last time I cried I was eleven. I’m in my 50s now, and I don’t really see it coming up again. It’s considered an excessive display of emotion in our family, and I was taken to task for it back then (I’d been hit by a car).
For years, my friends have played “what would make epbrown cry?” speculating on sad, often ludicrously sad (a plane full of puppies crashes) events that would make me emotional.
going on 34 years.
28 hours
But it’s not really crying. I tear a lot in the morning and it looks like I’m crying.
Some mornings it was so bad I’ve had strangers offer to console me.
From 7th grade until our cat died a few years ago, so 50+ years. I’ve never just full-out bawled about anything, even the deaths of my parents and siblings. I may tear up, but that’s about it. Now that I’m a geezer, of course, I tear up at a sad drug commercial. WTF is that all about?
I was a colicky baby and cried all the time; my father never let me forget that. And I was a “sensitive” child. Then, from some time in my teen years to early twenties, I never cried (except in a stage performance). Maybe 8 years. But since then, I easily cry at books, movies, music, personal relationships in general. I pity people who never cry; it’s like never laughing.
30 years, at least, though I have occasionally teared up (last I recall was finishing Wild Seed by Octavia Butler, and those were tears of joy).
I did have a tendency to cry into my teens; I was very emotional. I was called “crybaby” more than a few times. By the time I was 14, I had stopped, and kept my emotions in control.
It was that period between my girlfriend breaking up with me till that fire extinguisher tipped over and landed on my big toe with the exposed nail-bed.
No idea. I don’t cry particularly often, but I don’t keep a record.
I don’t keep a record, either, but I’m going to guess around three or four months, maybe sometime in the late 90s when I didn’t have much to cry about (not much sad happening on the world stage, nor in my personal life; there was a year or two when I just didn’t have much “at stake” in my life). I probably broke that streak by my first viewing of Breaking the Waves.
I was an easy crier until at least age 15, and my kindergarten-age son and my wife are pretty easy criers now. I’m into about a once-a-week-or-two average now. Mainly emotional personal-story news events or scenes in books/films/TV shows, but once in a while the result of good old-fashioned hurt feelings (which would be bad if it happened TOO often in a marriage, but once in a while is okay – shows that at least there ARE feelings), plus maybe once every few years in the aftermath of some professional disappointment or embarrassment.
I should have added “music” to the list of artistic forms that provoke my tears. Recently I was moved to tears by listening to Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, while reading a short story about it by Kim Stanley Robinson (a writer recommended in a Dope thread years ago).
I’m not a cryer, not at movies or even deaths of parents and I reckon I went a good 20 years without blubbing until I read this story in 2009 (warning…not gory, just desperately, desperately sad).
My son was about 2 at the time and it was simply too much of an emotional punch. I managed to hold out until I reached this paragraph.
It still fills me up now.
People seem to have different definitions of “crying”.
Novelty Bubble, thanks to your link my current no-cry streak is about 20 seconds. 
I think I remember doind it at school a couple of times, and at my Mum’s funeral, but I can’t remember doing it as an adult, so going on 25 years or so at the moment.
It is tough one to read isn’t it? nothing optimistic to take out of it.
I think it was second rucksack filled with toys that set me off the most.