Aww, found a lovely example of it by typing "comforting" in Google Images, but it's of children doing it, so I won't bother posting.  Also confirmed The Mask scene (I own the DVD), but if I want to take a screen cap of that, I'm going to have to get an annonymous Photobucket account or something, so might not get around to it... although I might... maybe it would make a nice wallpaper for my laptop... 

I like that posture too! It's definitely the one I would use for comforting most people (except my bf, where I would get up and hug him more closely). I also like the posture in which the comforter sits beside the crying person and puts his or her arm around the shoulders.

I also like the thought of reaching across the table (perhaps during a meal?) to put my hand over the man's in a comforting gesture. I would sort of stroke the hand and hold it a little while he talked to offer reassurance that I was there to listen. If he got more emotional, I would probably get up and walk around to the other side of the table, perhaps bringing my chair with me. I think that would be a good scene to both watch and be involved in.

Hahaha, this is just too sweet not to post here.  Such a cute and unexpected context for a crying clip.  I found the hand-holding posture again (if only briefly), again with a young Richard S, and again with crying (and tissues).  I think he's pretty much faking it this time, but you can see the woman's tears are real and you can tell it was HIS reaction that got her crying in the first place!  I think he probably genuinely feels emotional whenever he cries, but just lets all the visible 'stuff' happen at the first signs of it, so the emotion doesn't necessarily build very high or to the point of tears, BUT you do get to witness all the dramatics as though it had (and I love dramatics, LOL).

You really have to watch it build from 1:09 to feel the momentum:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=a7xnV8i4cG4

Last edited by woundedpuppy (May 22, 2013 1:45 am)