https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/unexpected-things-which-bring-a-tear-to-your-eye Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Tue, 05 May 2026 08:05:31 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/unexpected-things-which-bring-a-tear-to-your-eye/page/3#post-199349 Thu, 12 Aug 2010 06:19:51 +0000 marianna 199349@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I guess I'm a cold person because I don't cry much. I can't think of any unexpected things that make me cry. I hope I'm not heartless. Although the other day I had dinner at my aunt's and I helped set the table... and my cousin didn't like how I placed the napkins so she slyly changed them to her liking. I almost burst into tears then. Not sure why, but I felt humiliated!</p> <p>I do cry at "expected" things though, especially when I think about death. I can't handle thinking about death. Can't do it. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/unexpected-things-which-bring-a-tear-to-your-eye/page/3#post-199347 Thu, 12 Aug 2010 06:14:39 +0000 judy 199347@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Shana, I cried at the preview for Hachi too and had a really good sob when I finally saw it. And I have never even had a dog! But he was so loyal...oh, better not talk about it, I'll start again. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/unexpected-things-which-bring-a-tear-to-your-eye/page/3#post-199298 Thu, 12 Aug 2010 03:56:39 +0000 Sparky 199298@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Unexpected things that make me cry? Oh Lord, just about everything. I'm another waterworks that breaks out in tears all the time and when least expected. A random MacDonald's TV commercial can make me break out in tears ~ and I thoroughly dislike that place. Random news will make me sob ~ such as this story about a milkman putting out a fire and saving a family:</p> <p><a href="http://www.boston.com/yourtown/news/braintree/2010/08/milkman_puts_out_fire_saves_fa.html?p1=News_links" rel="nofollow">http://www.boston.com/yourtown.....News_links</a></p> <p>I just cried my eyes out at this, so figured it was time to respond to this thread! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/unexpected-things-which-bring-a-tear-to-your-eye/page/3#post-199218 Thu, 12 Aug 2010 02:14:08 +0000 Maya 199218@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>They never actually got married! In fact I think they may have split up. But I'm not sure. I don't know anything about his life anymore. All I could do is guess from the bits and pieces I picked up from his Facebook account (since I deleted mine I have no connection to him whatsoever).</p> <p>I have to admit I was hoping to run into him when in DC. </p> <p>I agree Steph. That says more about THEIR relationship than it does about yours. </p> <p>Losing friends is one of those things I have never been good at dealing with. I always feel like I'm the one who gets left behind But maybe they feel that way too. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/unexpected-things-which-bring-a-tear-to-your-eye/page/3#post-199216 Thu, 12 Aug 2010 02:12:13 +0000 Angie 199216@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>This thread is making me cry :0(</p> <p>Michelle, ALWAYS tears of joy when I see your outfits! </p> <p>I just want to point out that I am a little confused. Didn't Julie want to know what are the UNEXPECTED things that make us cry? Surely any distressed and unloved animal causes an expected emotional reaction. </p> <p>Julie, waterproof mascara will be a must when we meet. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/unexpected-things-which-bring-a-tear-to-your-eye/page/3#post-199215 Thu, 12 Aug 2010 02:10:05 +0000 shana 199215@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Count me in as someone who cried during the flashback scene of UP . The funny thing is that I turn towards my husband and I see him wiping away the tears as well! we both cried again when we saw the DVD for the first time.</p> <p>I always fall for the tearjerker movies. We recently saw Hachi (about a dog who waits at a train station where he normally meets his owner for 10 years after the owner dies) and I was bawling just watching the preview! None of you animal lovers should watch it!</p> <p>Music definitely. Especially ones that have to do with children going away or leaving. I always cry when I hear "Sunrise, Sunset" from the Fiddler on the Roof. Or" Slipping Through Your Fingers" by ABBA. Oh year Sarah MacLachlan - I used to play her cd and just sit in the bath &amp; cry when i was younger &amp; having a particularly bad bout of pms!</p> <p>Books, check. Just seeing the cover of The Yearling makes me tear up.</p> <p>I cry when my kids get their vaccinations even though they stoically bear it without a tear.</p> <p>Maya, I have had many male friends over the years and my experience has been that once they marry or get into serious relationships with women, it becomes difficult for them to maintain their friendships with their platonic female friends. This has happened to me so many times! I don't take it personally anymore. I count myself lucky that I am still in touch with my best friend from college - we were friends all 4 years and were housemates our senior year. Our relationship is not as close as it once was and it never will be again but it does not in any way diminish what we had. Just remember the good times! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/unexpected-things-which-bring-a-tear-to-your-eye/page/2#post-199213 Thu, 12 Aug 2010 02:06:58 +0000 Steph 199213@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Maya, I know exactly how you feel. I had a friend like that in law school, and he no longer speaks to me. I ended up finding out that his now-wife prohibited him from doing so. I think it's a totally crappy excuse and says something very sad about his wife and their relationship, but it doesn't make the loss hurt less. I also have a failed friendship with my very best friend from growing up. Thinking about the way our friendship once was and what it has become definitely brings tears to my eyes. :(</p> <p>Michelle, music can definitely make me tear up. As a Canadian, you might appreciate that the one song that gets me every time is "You Needed Me" by Anne Murray. I cried the first time I heard the song, and I'm not quite sure why (I was probably about five years old), and it still makes me teary. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/unexpected-things-which-bring-a-tear-to-your-eye/page/2#post-199208 Thu, 12 Aug 2010 02:02:24 +0000 April 199208@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Maya, I had a male friend in college exactly like that, only without the sad ending. So sorry. Is it possible that he valued your companionship so deeply that he felt it would create problems for him with his wife? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/unexpected-things-which-bring-a-tear-to-your-eye/page/2#post-199198 Thu, 12 Aug 2010 01:50:46 +0000 taylor 199198@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>So true Michelle, Music invokes all kinds of emotion...sadness being one of them:(</p> <p>That makes me sad Maya...I have had similar ubrupt endings:( </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/unexpected-things-which-bring-a-tear-to-your-eye/page/2#post-199185 Thu, 12 Aug 2010 01:40:15 +0000 Michelle 199185@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Maya, hugs for that. I'm not at all good about losing relationships, be they friendships or romantic involvements, so I really feel for you here.</p> <p>Hey, does anyone else ever get teary when you hear a song and the lyrics happen to sum up *exactly* what you're thinking or feeling at that moment? Or is that just me being weird. :)</p> <p>Oh, and on the weepy children's book front...for some reason I find the book Heidi intensely sad. Especially the parts where she's in Frankfurt and can't communicate how lonely and awful she feels. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/unexpected-things-which-bring-a-tear-to-your-eye/page/2#post-199171 Thu, 12 Aug 2010 01:10:33 +0000 Maya 199171@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Wow, I don't think my body could physically produce enough tears to cry over some of the things I have read here. I feel like a robot next to all of you. </p> <p>There is one thing I thought about though.</p> <p>I had a very dear friend throughout college. Whenever I was down, all I had to do was think of him and I would instantly feel better. This was not a romantic relationship at all. We really were just friends. I know it's hard for most women to wrap their heads around, but such relationships DO exist. Anyway, the point is that he was someone I took immense comfort in. We would speak every day and always had very lively, memorable conversations about everything from music to politics to science. He was always very chatty and had an opinion on just about everything. He was also extremely smart and I was always learning new things from him. I really couldn't praise him enough.</p> <p>Then in 2007 we just stopped talking. I tried to maintain the relationship as best as I could but it was hard. I was just out of surgery, and he had moved to DC to start a new job and move in with his new girlfriend, who he expected to marry. I haven't really spoken to him since. Sometimes I would write to him on Facebook but he would usually either ignore me or just post 2 words in response. I still think about him just about every day. I really miss the relationship we used to have. It was one of a kind, and it really still hurts so much to think that he didn't value me or my friendship and let such a special relationship come to an abrupt end like that. That makes me teary sometimes, like now I actually get more upset thinking about him than I do any of my actual past boyfriends. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/unexpected-things-which-bring-a-tear-to-your-eye/page/2#post-199157 Thu, 12 Aug 2010 00:41:48 +0000 Theresa 199157@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I have to add another one...</p> <p>I was at school this morning helping out with reading groups but before class started the teacher got Em to do a little writing exercise that some of the other kids did yesterday and she was sooooo good - she has started to sound out words and spell them to write them out - she's growing up and learning so much *sniff sniff* </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/unexpected-things-which-bring-a-tear-to-your-eye/page/2#post-199125 Wed, 11 Aug 2010 22:54:06 +0000 Dawn 199125@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Getting an email from my best friend who moved back to the States in June. He is hilarious and the sweetest person ever so I'm somewhere between laughing myself senseless and crying my eyes out at the moment. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/unexpected-things-which-bring-a-tear-to-your-eye/page/2#post-199117 Wed, 11 Aug 2010 22:39:52 +0000 Beth 199117@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Mac, I think he makes me a better person. And believe me, that's a full-time job. :P</p> <p>I didn't read The Giving Tree until I was an adult and good grief, is it depressing. I have to admit I really don't like it and as a children's book? No thanks. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/unexpected-things-which-bring-a-tear-to-your-eye/page/2#post-199108 Wed, 11 Aug 2010 22:32:08 +0000 Mac 199108@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Steph - I howled laughing reading your "widower" story. </p> <p>BethW - Wow. Your DearHubby is very lucky to have you weep for him.</p> <p>AJ - You showed great restraint in not taking those 2 "big" 4 year-olds aside and giving them a piece of your mind. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/unexpected-things-which-bring-a-tear-to-your-eye/page/2#post-198981 Wed, 11 Aug 2010 18:58:21 +0000 Vani 198981@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh gosh, I tear up even when there is a sad scene in a comedy movie. Gives everybody plenty to tease me about - all the time. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/unexpected-things-which-bring-a-tear-to-your-eye/page/2#post-198975 Wed, 11 Aug 2010 18:52:16 +0000 RoseandJoan 198975@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh Steph, I had a little bubble at UP as well, even Wall-E gets to me. </p> <p>Isabel, I completely understand about the cycle, I completed the Edinburgh Moonwalk mid June (10,000 women and men, wearing decorated bras pounding the streets at midnight) and the sight of some of Edinburgh's famous landmarks glowing bright pink in honour of breast cancer research really affected me.<br /> <a href="http://www.walkthewalk.org/Challenges/TheMoonWalkEdinburgh/LightingUpPink" rel="nofollow">http://www.walkthewalk.org/Cha.....tingUpPink</a></p> <p>Michelle, the forum will hold your hand through this difficult time and you ARE very strong! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/unexpected-things-which-bring-a-tear-to-your-eye/page/2#post-198962 Wed, 11 Aug 2010 18:24:00 +0000 Steph 198962@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I cry for anything related to sad animals too. I also volunteer about 40 hours a week with an animal rescue group, which means every day I get desperate e-mails from shelters with photos of the cats they have there that are going to be put down, begging me to find a place for them before they die. I can't find places for them all, so I'm sure you can imagine how much I cry. It can be pretty unbearable. </p> <p>The Giving Tree always makes me cry, as does Charlotte's Web. There were many episodes of the show Lost this past season that sent me into crying fits, and even more episodes of Friday Night Lights (I bawled at the end of the season one finale). </p> <p>Taylor, looking at lonely people can make me cry as well. My boyfriend told me about a guy he worked with who has one season ticket to see the Washington Capitals, because he is a widower. I cried for days over him, imagining how he loved his wife and then she died, and now he goes solo to hockey games. Later my boyfriend told me he had been mistaken, and the guy just likes to go to games alone--his wife is alive and well! I was about to kill my boyfriend when I found out. Along those lines, I cried hysterically during the flashback scene at the beginning of the movie Up.</p> <p>I also cry sometimes when I see immigrants standing in groups, waiting for someone to pick them up for day labor. When it is the middle of the day and they are still waiting, I get so sad. It all seems so tragic sometimes. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/unexpected-things-which-bring-a-tear-to-your-eye/page/2#post-198951 Wed, 11 Aug 2010 18:11:23 +0000 Sarah 198951@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>1. Animals. Hearing or seeing any animal that is unloved just kills me a little inside and I can't help but cry. I cry when I leave the pet store after purchasing food and seeing the adoptable dogs out front. I cry when I donate food to them. I always wear sunglasses when I leave Petco.</p> <p>2. Music. Specifically, Beethoven's 9th Symphony, Handel's Messiah, and Barber's Adagio for Strings </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/unexpected-things-which-bring-a-tear-to-your-eye/page/2#post-198850 Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:49:33 +0000 Michelle 198850@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Guys, you're killing me here! I'm sitting here at work, yes, with tears rolling down my cheeks!<br /> As you can tell from this, I'm a massive mushball and cry very easily, though I've tried to learn to control it ever since an absolutely devastating split-up a few years ago. In fact I think I'm so emotional right now because he's marrying someone else on Saturday and I still can't handle thinking about it all. Dozens and dozens of songs can stir up all those emotions too, and off I go.<br /> Other things that make me cry. The animal thing, absolutely. I can't handle stories of abuse one bit. But sometimes Reva doing something cute like putting her head in my lap at work can make me at least blink.<br /> Some of the songs I used to sing in choral groups can do it for me, and that always feels cathartic and wonderful.<br /> You know that scene in Forrest Gump where Tom Hanks is talking to Jenny at her grave? Yeah, I'm done. Ditto for the book "Where the Red Fern Grows," the opening of "Emily of New Moon," the end of "A Fine Balance..." and so on.<br /> I got happily teary last week watching my best friend get married to an absolutely fabulous guy... We used to play wedding with our barbie dolls, so watching her do it in real life was surreal and fabulous.<br /> Taylor, I sympathize with you on crying over when someone seems lonely. I remember seeing a child on the bus who wanted to pet McClure (old guide dog), and he sounded so sad and grateful when I let him do it then sat by him so we could chat. He sounded like I used to at the same age when I was going through a tough social time too, and I was all choked up.<br /> Wow, this is depressing!<br /> Ok, sometimes I cry when I laugh so hard that my tear ducts activate..and fortunately I laugh as easily as I cry. I can also be extremely solid at times of stress. Corey's stint in hospital last year comes to mind.</p> <p>Angie, sorry my outfits make you cry! Must come up with happy ensemble! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/unexpected-things-which-bring-a-tear-to-your-eye/page/2#post-198839 Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:14:18 +0000 taylor 198839@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I am old enough to remember that commercial Kristen!! Was that the "reach out and touch someone" era?</p> <p>Mac, I can fully understand your feelings with your niece, When someone is unkind and cruel to a child we love it hurts us 10x more:(....lump in throat. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/unexpected-things-which-bring-a-tear-to-your-eye/page/2#post-198758 Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:45:47 +0000 Isabel 198758@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I don't get teary eyed, my husband says I am tearless - I am often moved, but just not to tears. But this past weekend, as my son I were running some errands, we ran into the Pan Mass Challenge. An enormous, cancer charity bike ride that takes two days and ends on the tip of Cape Cod.</p> <p>I was so moved by the hundreds of riders, many with stuffed animals on their helmets, others with pictures of loved ones who succumbed to cancer.......The ride goes by our house every year, but it really moved me this year for some reason. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/unexpected-things-which-bring-a-tear-to-your-eye/page/2#post-198747 Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:02:56 +0000 Kristen 198747@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I cry at everything, TV shows and commercials especially. The one that still makes me well up is that AT&amp;T one from waaaaaay back in the 80s, where the mom is crying at the kitchen table and her husband asks why she is crying.</p> <p>"Our son called."<br /> "Is there something wrong?"<br /> "No." Cries softly. "He said he just called to say, 'I love you, Mom'."</p> <p>If I am the only one who remembers that, I will truly be showing my age! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/unexpected-things-which-bring-a-tear-to-your-eye/page/2#post-198744 Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:51:31 +0000 An 198744@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>It doesn't take much to set the emotions going for me either. One that comes to mind was my 4 yr olds first concert at pre-school a few months ago. Oh my goodness!! Also weddings always set me off ... all that love and emotion Also I work in the health care industry and sometimes when clients tell me their story I get a bit teary - hmm, not very professional! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/unexpected-things-which-bring-a-tear-to-your-eye/page/2#post-198741 Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:38:50 +0000 Laura 198741@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>My children choke me up more than anything these days although this weekend it was my husband who did it when we actually had time to have a long talk! Otherwise I cry over books - many times you can find me with tears running down my face with a book in hand. As a girl I must have cried over Beth dying in Little Women a million and one times! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/unexpected-things-which-bring-a-tear-to-your-eye/page/2#post-198732 Wed, 11 Aug 2010 10:11:26 +0000 Theresa 198732@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>oh gosh... I'm another emotional gal that doesn't take a lot to end up in tears! Although, like some of you, if there is no one else able to be the "strong" person, I can easily be that person for the sake of everyone else, but as soon as I don't have to be that person anymore I'm in tears.</p> <p>Books and movies do it all the time - even stuff that's not sad - just anything remotely emotional and I'm a mess. I balled the entire way through seeing the Lion King when I was a child because I just lost it the moment the dad died - and I've never watched it again! </p> <p>For the Aussies - the book Seven Little Australians... oh lordy - I'm a mess reading it, and my copy is a truly beautiful book, and Em wants me to read it to her but I've been putting it off because I know what I'll be like.</p> <p>But, the thing I'm finding that sets me off most lately is anytime anyone asks me about Em's school - I just love it so much and love the family feel of it, so as soon as I start describing it I end up teary! Even writing about it brings tears to my eyes. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/unexpected-things-which-bring-a-tear-to-your-eye/page/2#post-198717 Wed, 11 Aug 2010 09:12:33 +0000 RoseandJoan 198717@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I know I could not read that book to the girls, I had to read a couple of chapters out loud when I was at school and had tears streaming down my face. I used to love The Railway Children. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/unexpected-things-which-bring-a-tear-to-your-eye/page/2#post-198695 Wed, 11 Aug 2010 08:29:33 +0000 anne 198695@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh yes Goodnight Mr Tom is definitely a tearjerker. I don't think I'd read that one aloud though - they can read it themselves when they are able. I really only read the Railway Children because I picked up a video of the old movie and wanted my DD to hear the novel before she saw it.</p> <p>I loved Kristines story too. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/unexpected-things-which-bring-a-tear-to-your-eye/page/2#post-198692 Wed, 11 Aug 2010 08:24:25 +0000 RoseandJoan 198692@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Goodnight Mr. Tom is the book which always made me cry I don't think I would be capable of reading to the girls.</p> <p>Yes, seeing your child experience their first rejection is heart breaking, Teah looks so much older then actual age and some of the older girls at the park started laughing at her for still wearing a nappy. She was two and half and I had to very quietly and calmly enlighten the girls of that fact.</p> <p>Kristine, I loved reading your story I'm quite happy sifting through a huge file of paperwork and determining what's important. Your job fascinates me.</p> <p>Animal abuse is just vile, I can't bring myself to watch the videos or read the articles.</p> <p>Angie, I would cry too if I was able to give you a hug, we had best meet somewhere very quiet! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/unexpected-things-which-bring-a-tear-to-your-eye/page/2#post-198656 Wed, 11 Aug 2010 05:42:10 +0000 AJ 198656@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>When I have someone crying in front of me, I tend to hold it together to help them out. However, I'm a sap when watching movies or tv commercials that have happy or sad bits to them. Of course my kids and my hubby pull at my heart strings. </p> <p>Mac, once when my eldest son was three, we were at our neighborhood meet and greet. He went up to two slightly older kids with a big smile on his face. They both looked at him and asked him how old he was. After he answered, they said angrily, "No, you can't play with us because we are both 4 and you are only 3!" Then they left him just standing there not knowing what to do and his big smile turned to a confused look. So I called him over and said reassuringly that it didn't matter how old someone is, we should enjoy playing with anyone. Then we went and played ball together. It was so hard for me to keep my face calm during that time and I still am tearing up thinking about it. </p>