Super-Secret wrote:

I definitely feel this. I sometimes have a hard time witnessing others cry in real life for this reason.

 
Conversely, then, have you ever comforted someone in front of others and enjoyed knowing that they were witnessing it? Almost like comforting exhibitionism?

punkchick wrote:

 I tend to worry about that, because I'm afraid that the time will finally come to get to hold my boyfriend while he cries and he'll feel my heart pounding and get really weirded out by me.  

I had worries like that once, but I found that they tend to go away in the moment.

That sounds rather torturous and tantalizing. I hope you'll get a chance to really experience it.

Idk if this counts as a fantasy or not, but I had a dream last night. Probably been watching too much Game of Thrones because I dreamed that I was comforting Sansa Stark over something or other. First, she had some tears running down her cheeks, then I hugged her close and she opened up into deep, wracking belly sobs. Not sure what it was all about, though.

I recall once playing board games with a group of friends and saying something that made everyone crack up. I mean, incapacitated with laughter for a couple minutes, especially the girl to my right. I could pinpoint a change in her vocal tone, the exact instant she went from laughter to laugh-sobbing, with her hands cupped over her face and her fingers wiping away tears.

I thought, "huh, so that's what she sounds like when she cries."

After that, she thanked me for making her and the whole table of people cry.