Question for BSL, and for married guys

[Monkeyleg]

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?

[charby]

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.

[Perd Hapley]

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.  

[wmenorr67]

 But it would still be your fault.

[Northwoods]

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.

[Lee]

Not usually.

[BobR]

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

[vaskidmark]

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.

[Fitz]

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...

[Hawkmoon]

When my late wife broke her wrist, she wept/cried.

Our daughter wails like a banshee if she stubs her toe ...

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

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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[Monkeyleg]

Damn, your daughter should be a Marine.

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.

[BlueStarLizzard]

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.

[Fly320s]

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.

[Jamisjockey]

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.

[Monkeyleg]

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.

[lee n. field]

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.

[AJ Dual]

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.

[Tallpine]

No.  They say that redheads don't feel pain 

[red headed stranger]

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.

[Doggy Daddy]

Only if something hurts her emotionally, and that usually means me being a dumbass.

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


(BTW, a belated "happy birthday" to ya.)

[Neemi]

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.

[AJ Dual]

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.

[Neemi]

You need a soul to feel pain.

[grampster]

Women do not sweat, fart, belch or cry.  They bitch.  Otherwise they would blow up.