I don't say I'm turned on by tears or crying.  That makes it sound too creepy.  I'll usually just say something like "I find that I'm a good shoulder to cry on" or, "I have a thing for helping people in distress."

I prefer using subtlety and plausible deniability.  Being blunt got me in trouble once.  So I learned the hard way.

I don't talk about my dacryphilia generally. I'm nervous about how people might see me because of it. I'm also not big in the dating scene at the moment, so that doesn't help. My very close (online) friend knows about it, but that's mostly because we sort of discovered our kinks together, and that's one we share.