I had a dream when I was about 4 or 5 where women were crying and I was getting aroused by that. A few days later I saw a woman crying on TV. Her bottom lip was curled and I was instantly aroused. The rest is history.

How did you describe the fetish to these people, Lemoniep?  Sounds like you've been lucky or maybe you describe it such a way that it's very palatable to someone without the fetish.  I've told 4 people and I'd say that half were cool with it and the other half were weirded out a little bit (though nothing major).  The cool with it ones were a guy I was seeing (who indulged the fetish for me), and a female therapist.  The two that were so-so (I would not go so far to say they were particularly interested in it or accepting of it) were my hubby and a male friend.  Well, I guess it was kind of hard to tell with the male friend, as I told him online.  He just thought it was unusual and didn't ask any more questions (he was probably hoping it was a kink he could relate to more).  My hubby is a little bit weirded out by the fetish because he thinks of crying as negative, so to him, it's like I'm into something negative that happens to other people in circumstances he himself could only be sympathetic about.  I understand this point of view (and the fact he sees crying as negative is HIS issue, not mine... any therapist would probably say that crying isn't in itself a "negative" thing), but it's OK, because he's used to me having the fetish by now and it's not a big deal.  He often grins or laughs if we see a scene on TV with crying because he knows where my mind is going!  But only the one guy who indulged me in the fetish actually seemed interested in understanding it, and he thought it was sweet to want to comfort someone so much.  Maybe it all comes down to how open-minded and curious the person is about fetishes in general... I certainly am very open-minded and curious, myself!

Sorry, I've steered this thread off-topic -- would love to hear how more people first discovered their crying fetish.

Woundedpuppy, I think I built it up as something a bit weird, but essentially harmless, and stressed that it wasn't sadistic though it sounded like it would be, and then finally came out with it and said that I have a crying fetish. I always played up the comforting side. Actually, one person was kinda like 'Sucks to be your boyfriend', but that was the one person I didn't tell myself - a friend who I had told blurted it out, as she finds it quite funny and didn't realise it was such a personal thing to me (she later apologised). I'm quite jealous that you found someone to indulge it - neither of the two boyfriends I've had offered to do that! I am also very open-minded and told my boyfriend the other day that there weren't many things I wouldn't try to indulge for him - he still didn't get the hint, but then I don't think he could make himself cry anyway, he's too stoic.

I'm in a sharing mood today, so I'm bringing back an old thread.

My fetish started when I was in the fifth grade. Our teacher was crying while reading Where the Red Fern Grows to us, and every girl, including me, was crying. Only one boy was crying, and he would go on to be made fun of for the next several weeks. But anyway, I always felt disgusting while crying. My nose would be all stuffed up and I couldn't see anything because of all the tears, and it was really stressful not to be able to stop. But sitting to my left was my friend, a girl who wasn't stressed out at all. She was just sitting there, slumping a little in her seat, arms folded, with big glistening tears rolling down her cheeks and onto her t-shirt. Her tongue would every once in a while dart out to grab a tear that had come near her lips. Obviously I didn't even know that girls could like girls that way, but it was beautiful. That's when I took a deep breath and tried to imitate her. Arms folded, breathing through my mouth, sniffling occasionally to keep my nose from running too much. No more rubbing my eyes. I felt a lot less stressed, even though the dying fictional dog kept my tears coming.

In all honesty, I'm not even sure this is a fetish. I just like watching girls who can cry like that. That was the day when I started to change the way I cry. It's easy to change habits at that age, I think.

I think I belong to these who have it for a long time. I can't exactly remember when it first started. When I was a kid I wasn't allowed to watch tv and we didn't have a computer, but I remember that I went to the cinema all allone, always hoping to see a nice crying scene, and if I found a film that I liked sometimes I went to see the film several times.
Not a single person in this world knows about my fetish, just you on the forum. I was and I still am embarassed to have it, that is the reason why I never told anybody, not even my husband.