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Title: Question for BSL, and for married guys
Post by: Monkeyleg on September 24, 2014, 09:55:33 PM
I don't think about my ex very often anymore, but when I do, it's usually about one of her peculiarities.

One thing she would do is cry when she hurt herself. If she'd bang her elbow into something hard or mash her toe or something, she'd cry. I always just let loose a string of profanities. I can't understand the purpose of crying (well, I can't understand swearing, either).

Is she alone in doing this, or do many women cry when they get hurt?
Title: Re: Question for BSL, and for married guys
Post by: charby on September 24, 2014, 10:02:34 PM
My wife swears when she hurts herself, then of course adds drama to it over the next few days. Me, I swear also, but if I still hurt for a time after it, I just excuse myself from activities that irritate it.

Title: Re: Question for BSL, and for married guys
Post by: Perd Hapley on September 24, 2014, 10:07:19 PM
My wife does not cry. I can't recall any women that do.

The swearing, while Not Good, I understand. I become rather angry when I hurt myself. Sometimes, I am justifiably angry with myself. At other times, I'm just pitching a juvenile fit, because I don't like the universe picking on me.  :'(
Title: Re: Question for BSL, and for married guys
Post by: wmenorr67 on September 24, 2014, 10:11:28 PM
 But it would still be your fault.
Title: Re: Question for BSL, and for married guys
Post by: Northwoods on September 24, 2014, 11:07:56 PM
Wife usually doesn't cry.  Once or twice I think she has as an adult, but those were for far more than just a stubbed toe.
Title: Re: Question for BSL, and for married guys
Post by: Lee on September 24, 2014, 11:14:11 PM
Not usually.
Title: Re: Question for BSL, and for married guys
Post by: BobR on September 24, 2014, 11:23:13 PM
I swear, and my wife has also become quite adept at swearing when something painful happens. But, there is a good reason, we just don't know why yet.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-do-we-swear/

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-do-we-swear/

bob
Title: Re: Question for BSL, and for married guys
Post by: vaskidmark on September 25, 2014, 12:21:31 AM
All I can say is that if you find yourself thinking of your now-ex without good and sufficient provocation, your therapy needs to be tightened up.

stay safe.
Title: Re: Question for BSL, and for married guys
Post by: Fitz on September 25, 2014, 12:30:41 AM
My wife cries. She's sensitive like that I guess. She also cries at sad movies, cries at sad news stories, cries when she's really really happy...
Title: Re: Question for BSL, and for married guys
Post by: Hawkmoon on September 25, 2014, 12:32:26 AM
When my late wife broke her wrist, she wept/cried.

Our daughter wails like a banshee if she stubs her toe ...
Title: Re: Question for BSL, and for married guys
Post by: cassandra and sara's daddy on September 25, 2014, 12:46:22 AM
Wife and youngest daughter cries. Oldest daughter is crazy stoic. When she was 4 she burned her forearm on her 4 wheeler. Took off a spot of skin size of silver dollar. Never made a peep. Played with me for another 45 mins an hour and only when we went in did I even see it. Scares me sometimes


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Title: Re: Question for BSL, and for married guys
Post by: Monkeyleg on September 25, 2014, 01:10:28 AM
Damn, your daughter should be a Marine. ;)

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All I can say is that if you find yourself thinking of your now-ex without good and sufficient provocation, your therapy needs to be tightened up.

It's pretty hard not to think about someone you were with for 45 years. Every so often I'll be doing something and be reminded of her.  Today I was walking barefoot in the house and my toe met the refrigerator without a proper introduction.
Title: Re: Question for BSL, and for married guys
Post by: BlueStarLizzard on September 25, 2014, 07:30:37 AM
emotional response or physical response?

If I get hurt bad enough, a few tears will spring out along with the "*expletive deleted*  *expletive deleted*ity *expletive deleted*s!"

emotional responses are generally when I'm really tired and frustrated and I get stupid little hurts, but that's pretty typical with ADHD in woman.

I also get teary eyed over happy happy stuff and sad stuff, but too be honest, I don't cry that often, and really losing it is rare.
Title: Re: Question for BSL, and for married guys
Post by: Fly320s on September 25, 2014, 08:04:00 AM
When my wife gets really hurt, like when she crashed her bike onto rocks, she gets light-headed or nausea.  For minor stuff, she just use non-swear profanities.
Title: Re: Question for BSL, and for married guys
Post by: Jamisjockey on September 25, 2014, 09:37:55 AM
Only if something hurts her emotionally, and that usually means me being a dumbass.
For the most part, she wont' cry over injury.  She might baby the *expletive deleted*it out of it for a while, though.
Title: Re: Question for BSL, and for married guys
Post by: Monkeyleg on September 25, 2014, 10:01:34 AM
It wasn't (presumably still isn't) emotional. It was just her reaction to pain.

She had another peculiarity that was more annoying. If she was startled by something when she was asleep, she'd wake up screaming. Once, after we'd been married a few months, a large heavy framed picture fell off the wall in the middle of the night. She let out blood curdling screams for a couple of minutes. I was more terrified of her screams than whatever may have caused the noise. It took some time to calm her down.

Title: Re: Question for BSL, and for married guys
Post by: lee n. field on September 25, 2014, 10:11:09 AM
I don't think about my ex very often anymore, but when I do, it's usually about one of her peculiarities.

One thing she would do is cry when she hurt herself. If she'd bang her elbow into something hard or mash her toe or something, she'd cry. I always just let loose a string of profanities. I can't understand the purpose of crying (well, I can't understand swearing, either).

Is she alone in doing this, or do many women cry when they get hurt?

Not past childhood, of any in my acquaintance.
Title: Re: Question for BSL, and for married guys
Post by: AJ Dual on September 25, 2014, 10:42:11 AM
Mine cries, but only for big stuff, like spraining an ankle, while slipping on ice and getting banged up falling while getting into/out of a car where she goes down like a sack of potatoes.
Title: Re: Question for BSL, and for married guys
Post by: Tallpine on September 25, 2014, 10:48:54 AM
No.  They say that redheads don't feel pain  =|
Title: Re: Question for BSL, and for married guys
Post by: red headed stranger on September 25, 2014, 11:11:22 AM
My wife cried once when she sliced her hand really bad with a chefs knife.

My mother, on the other hand, cries at pretty much any physical pain. Stubbing a toe, stepping on something, paper cuts, or biting her tongue result in screaming and crying that, if it were anyone else, I would think that they had just lost a limb.
Title: Re: Question for BSL, and for married guys
Post by: Doggy Daddy on September 25, 2014, 11:56:15 AM
Only if something hurts her emotionally, and that usually means me being a dumbass.

Be careful the poor woman doesn't become dehydrated!!   :rofl:


(BTW, a belated "happy birthday" to ya.)
Title: Re: Question for BSL, and for married guys
Post by: Neemi on September 25, 2014, 02:50:07 PM
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No.  They say that redheads don't feel pain   =|

Who is this they? They lie.

I don't burst into tears when I stub my toe - there may be a sharp intake of breath while I try to hold in any words I don't want my 3 year old to repeat. Crying comes for big injuries, sad movies, or when the epidural wears off for a few minutes.
Title: Re: Question for BSL, and for married guys
Post by: AJ Dual on September 25, 2014, 02:58:50 PM
Who is this they? They lie.

I don't burst into tears when I stub my toe - there may be a sharp intake of breath while I try to hold in any words I don't want my 3 year old to repeat. Crying comes for big injuries, sad movies, or when the epidural wears off for a few minutes.

You need a soul to feel pain.

I mean, I can kind of feel the echoes of the pain in the last soul I've stolen and consumed, but it fades very quickly. Sort of like how cotton candy vanishes/melts in your mouth, but more bitter, like ashes.
Title: Re: Question for BSL, and for married guys
Post by: Neemi on September 25, 2014, 03:19:27 PM
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You need a soul to feel pain.

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Title: Re: Question for BSL, and for married guys
Post by: grampster on September 25, 2014, 05:05:38 PM
Women do not sweat, fart, belch or cry.  They bitch.  Otherwise they would blow up. :P
Title: Re: Question for BSL, and for married guys
Post by: Hawkmoon on September 25, 2014, 08:18:07 PM
Women do not sweat, fart, belch or cry.  They bitch.  Otherwise they would blow up. :P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxxsP7VWVN8
Title: Re: Question for BSL, and for married guys
Post by: LadySmith on September 27, 2014, 05:03:06 AM
I'm not BSL or a married guy (as far as you know  ;)), but I only cry for emotional hurts like the death of a pet.
Physical hurts usually only result in the offending object getting destroyed.  =D
Title: Re: Question for BSL, and for married guys
Post by: Monkeyleg on September 27, 2014, 10:55:08 AM
Hey, Ladysmith. Haven't seen you around here in a cat's age. ;)

When you talk about "offending objects", do you mean shoes?
Title: Re: Question for BSL, and for married guys
Post by: lupinus on September 27, 2014, 11:05:58 AM
My wife will cry for physical stuff only if it hurts like a sumbitch. Mild, moderate, major owies? Not usually. Water works are much easier for emotional issues, aka "Lupe's been a dumbass"
Title: Re: Question for BSL, and for married guys
Post by: Tallpine on September 27, 2014, 11:24:33 AM
She usually cries over some book she's reading  ;/
Title: Re: Question for BSL, and for married guys
Post by: Monkeyleg on September 27, 2014, 05:13:15 PM
She usually cries over some book she's reading  ;/

Doesn't that make it hard to see the words? ;)
Title: Re: Question for BSL, and for married guys
Post by: Tallpine on September 27, 2014, 05:18:24 PM
Doesn't that make it hard to see the words? ;)

I have no clue ...   =|
Title: Re: Question for BSL, and for married guys
Post by: vaskidmark on September 27, 2014, 05:41:22 PM
I have no clue ...   =|

We already knew that.

Now, answer the question.

stay safe.
Title: Re: Question for BSL, and for married guys
Post by: Tallpine on September 27, 2014, 05:51:01 PM
We already knew that.

Now, answer the question.

stay safe.

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Title: Re: Question for BSL, and for married guys
Post by: Unisaw on September 27, 2014, 09:07:37 PM
My wife tends to run around in circles when she hurts herself.  She was once using a giant meat fork to pry apart some frozen beef patties.  Next thing i knew, she was practically running laps around the first floor.  When I stopped her, I saw that the fork had slipped and gone pretty far into her palm.
Title: Re: Question for BSL, and for married guys
Post by: LadySmith on September 28, 2014, 04:52:48 AM
Hey, Ladysmith. Haven't seen you around here in a cat's age. ;)

When you talk about "offending objects", do you mean shoes?

Yep. Nothing worse than wearing stilletos that make your calves pop & then break a heel.  :mad:
They get trashed when that happens even if it means going from being "all that" to being barefooted.  :lol:
Title: Re: Question for BSL, and for married guys
Post by: Tallpine on September 28, 2014, 10:46:41 AM
Yep. Nothing worse than wearing stilletos that make your calves pop & then break a heel.  :mad:
They get trashed when that happens even if it means going from being "all that" to being barefooted.  :lol:

Barefoot is cool  :cool: