# Men, when was the last time you had a good cry? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 19, 2012, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-when-was-the-last-time-you-had-a-good-cry/638203 "2012-10-19T06:37:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2012, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-when-was-the-last-time-you-had-a-good-cry/638203/21 "2012-10-20T13:22:05Z")
Certain movies trigger it in me, and sometimes so does watching shit like the first time I saw the Susan Boyle video. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2012, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-when-was-the-last-time-you-had-a-good-cry/638203/22 "2012-10-20T14:25:56Z")
Sobbing? Hitched breath.? Not in quite a while. My Father died Monday though, so this week has seen plenty of tears. Sometimes I find myself just standing, staring and thinking. I’m sure it looks kinda odd. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2012, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-when-was-the-last-time-you-had-a-good-cry/638203/23 "2012-10-20T14:30:03Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Tomorrow. It’s always a day away. ---
**Author:** ![Daylate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9dc877/32.png) [@Daylate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daylate)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2012, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-when-was-the-last-time-you-had-a-good-cry/638203/24 "2012-10-20T17:10:28Z")
November, 1948. Truman beat Dewey. ---
**Author:** ![Arrendajo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Arrendajo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arrendajo)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2012, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-when-was-the-last-time-you-had-a-good-cry/638203/25 "2012-10-20T18:14:59Z")
Almost two years ago my 17 year old son had a massive stroke and collapsed in front of my eyes. He had brain surgery and was in a coma for weeks. Intensive care, tracheostomy and ventilator, every tube, catheter, monitor, IV, etc know to man and medicine. It was a horrifying experience - beyond my ability to convey in a short post in a forum like this - but it was worse for me than my wife because I had worked in medicine for many years as a respiratory therapist, in exactly the setting I now found myself as a family member. I was terrified throughout the hospitalization that my son would suffer fatal complications not from the primary injury but as a result of the drastic medical procedures that were keeping him alive. I had seen it so many times before. “The operation was a success but the patient died” scenario. Finally he recovered enough to leave the hospital for an in-patient rehab facility. After we got him moved in, my wife stayed with him so I could have a break. When I got home I collapsed in a chair and sobbed for about an hour, a combination of being heartsick at the tragedy that befell us and relief that he had survived the hospitalization. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2012, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-when-was-the-last-time-you-had-a-good-cry/638203/26 "2012-10-20T18:25:49Z")
Hmm… surprisingly, I end up sobbing in my dreams a few times a year, so it was probably then. I sometimes have extremely emotional dreams, and I can never remember why I am so sad in them, but I wake up and my pillow is wet from tears, my eyes are puffy, etc., so I know I was crying in real life too and not just in the dream. The last time I consciously sobbed to the point of gasping and not being able to really talk was probably a few months ago when I was disappointed in myself and came clean with my boyfriend about some unpleasant truths about myself. The funny thing is that while I’m a fairly emotionally open guy in many ways (lots of movies and even some songs tend to make me at least choke up if not shed a few tears), I almost never actually sob. But disappointment in myself will reduce me to a sobbing, hysterical mess. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-when-was-the-last-time-you-had-a-good-cry/638203.md?page=1)