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Crying

My wife and I had to put our dog down last year. She was in reasonable good health, but she had taken to biting people. We only had her a year, but I still teared up.
The time before that was when I had to put anther dog down, a dog we had since she was a pup. Cried like a baby, probably embarrassed the vet.
 
Roger1 said:
My wife and I had to put our dog down last year. She was in reasonable good health, but she had taken to biting people. We only had her a year, but I still teared up.
The time before that was when I had to put anther dog down, a dog we had since she was a pup. Cried like a baby, probably embarrassed the vet.
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Same here :( basically I had grown up beside a dog of the same age as me. He was a magnificent dog but got sick at 14 (cancer). He was put down and I was devastated. The day before me and my dad took him for his last walk, fed him chocolate digestive biscuits (his fave) for breakfast. I can still remember seeing my dad drive him down the road. Absolutely heart breaking for me. Getting teary now :eek:

Same thing happened a year or so later to my uncles dogs (who I also spent a lot of time with). We went on a final holiday with them to an island off the coast of Scotland. Magical time.

Probably got the same thing happening soon again. We've had our current dog for 10 years, got her when she was around 3 years old. She's got a load of problems but she's still full of life. I'm really attached to her as well... :eek: she's been there as I went through school, college, uni. shes really a big part of my life.
 
after reading through this thread all i have to say is WOW. An internet forum that is actually mature? I think ill stick around:D:apple:

And to contribute, i cant remember the last time i REALLY cried. Musta been when my pet rabbit died 4 years ago (is it terrible that my rabbit dying affected me worse than my great grandmothers death?). Since then I havent really had a reason, though to be honest ive teared up at during really sad movies (i cant think of them off the top of my head, though im sure Saving Private Ryan had a few moments in it, terrific film).:apple:
 
Prof. said:
Last time i cried was when i told my mom i'm gay.
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was that serious? I can imagine having to come clean about something that (unfortunatly) isnt that accepted can be tough, kudos my friend.

Edit: srry for the double post, i still havnt mastered certain things on these forums
 
NT1440 said:
is it terrible that my rabbit dying affected me worse than my great grandmothers death?):
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I'm going to say no, it isn't terrible. Thing about humans is you (if you're lucky) have a final conversation. You know that person and what they did. You had proper communication.

With a pet it's just implied and hinted. Do you know if your pet loves you? Can a pet love you? You just gotta hope and I find it's that you don't know what they really think that makes it harder. And its worse if you have the choice of putting them down.
I think it's also depressing that in a fraction of your life you've seen a creature from being a baby to being old and dying.
 
NT1440 said:
Musta been when my pet rabbit died 4 years ago (is it terrible that my rabbit dying affected me worse than my great grandmothers death?).
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IMO, no, not at all.

Familiarity also breeds affection, which then turns to loss.

Your Great Grandma may have been less available to you.
 
iJohnHenry said:
IMO, no, not at all.

Familiarity also breeds affection, which then turns to loss.

Your Great Grandma may have been less available to you.
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i think it also has to do with me always being described by ppl that know me best as "an animal person", go figure. As for my great grandmother, i never really got to know her, i was young at the time (probably like 12ish) and i guess we never really had a relationship.
 
I still cry a lot when remembering a significant loss. Either through death, and this is quite often friends being taken before their time, or loss through circumstance. I still can get emotional when thinking about my pet Vampire when he flew away. Of course at funerals as well. I'll cry when I make my next visit to the grassy hills were my first lover is buried.

KBG
 
Ya load o' wusses...

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Been feeling like I want to cry since Sunday night, driving home under really wicked clouds, knowing that a big tornado had already pretty much wiped out a town in my state. The pictures and video are just devastating... bringing back way too many memories. :(
 
Years ago.

Most of the things that would make me cry affected me when I was young (apart from a death of a relative), so nowadays when they happen again, I don't get too upset about it.

Stuff like "splitting up with someone I loved" has happened, and I've gotten over it. Friends stabbing me in the back, bullying, etc. So I'm over most of those things, and if they happen again then I don't feel so bad because I've dealt with them before.

Plus I don't like the idea of crying. I hate the feeling of tears running down my face, getting snotty and feeling depressed. The idea is just horrible for me and I partially force myself not to cry because of that.

But I'd much rather look on the brighter sides of things and get over it that way than letting all my emotions out.

I do get a little teary eyed at times, though... (just to prove I'm a little bit human ;))
 
Prof. said:
Yeah. Whenever i posted that thread.


Yes, it was very serious and hard to do.
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Congrats. You have more balls then I do. I still have not told my parents and allot of people know. Blah, I enjoy a home. I am not ready to be homeless.

But to the topic. Last time I cried. Well a few hours ago..... For some reason none of my friends want nothing to do with me anymore. They will not even talk to me. Shoot..... Even a really good friend of mind will not help me out. I was looking for someone to talk to (As friends do when one of them has a problem).... He told me it's to much work. I am to busy, I rarely have time to spend with my friends..... Exact words and not joking. Plus these past few weeks, he has been a real jerk.

Life has been a downer for me lately. I do enjoy my new and first iMac. I also love this new forum I fond ;)
 
geekgirl said:
Been feeling like I want to cry since Sunday night, driving home under really wicked clouds, knowing that a big tornado had already pretty much wiped out a town in my state. The pictures and video are just devastating... bringing back way too many memories. :(
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Are you from Iowa or Minnesota? I live about 12 miles from Parkersburg, Iowa. Half the town was leveled Sunday.
 
iowamensan said:
Are you from Iowa or Minnesota? I live about 12 miles from Parkersburg, Iowa. Half the town was leveled Sunday.
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Iowa. I live about an hour away from Parkersburg. Just hard to see the photos and video (I was seven when an F4 went through my hometown, and thought I had finally worked through all of this). Did you have any damage or see this monster tornado?

(for those of you not in Iowa, this thing was a mile-wide at one point. The first video actually shows the tornado.
http://www.kcci.com/video/16393318/
http://www.kcci.com/video/16401697/)
 
Hmm... probably a little more than a month ago, when I was laughing really REALLY hard :D

But actual sad crying? I dont remember, not for a while.
 
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