I never knew my grandfathers.they both died before I was born. I lost one grandmother a year ago. My Kay surviving grandparent, my father's mother has always amazed me.she's into her nineties and has all her Weiss and all her teeth.bouncy, independent, she gets young folks. My fifteen year old Bruce week call her great grandma to b*tch when het mother is being so unfair.
, I hardly speak to her as often as I should. I'm getting scared because she's just now staring to have health problems, needing help around the house, not being able to be leggy alone. This is not like her.she has never been unwell as long as I have known her and she always just seemed ageless. It's scary to see she is mortal after all.

inmyarms wrote:

I have to agree with truffle.lump in the throat is not crying.not every experience if string emotion counts as a level of crying.I think for it to be crying there has to be the presence of tears.

I agree, choked up / lump in throat is probably just classed as increased emotion rather than crying. Personally my threadhold for calling it 'crying' is visible tears in eyes - some people say they have to actually leave the eyes but for me tears in eyes is enough.

I included these categories to try and answer the 64 times a year question but ok if you guys feel it's too much to report on these categories.

I really experience these categories on there own it goes straight from nothing to at least tears in eyes.

Thanks for supporting this guys - lets try and keep it going for a WHOLE year - Phew !! - a challenge

Date: Feb 2
Duration: about five minutes
Reason for crying: life can suck and then throw ironies at you to rub on your face how sucky it is.
Location: on the street, fighting it very hard, then home in my room.
Crying intensity: first outdoors very choked up. Tears threatening,b blinking very furiously to keep it back. Then at home quietly sobbing so as not to frighten the kids, my usual heavy treat volume.
Reaction to tears: texted my husband to
People present: me in the room.my children and step soon in the next room.

Date:13th Feb 2014

Time: on and off over several hours

Duration: on andfoff but longest spell was ten to fifteen minutes

Reason for Crying: overwhelmed by the impact of health and financial problems

Location: Home, various parts of the home.

Crying Intensity: initially brief bursts of intense sobbing for a few seconds followed by long periods of quiet and then another bust. In the end a long period of wit sobbing, allotfof tear volume.

Reaction to Tears: initial bursts.just let it happen add I went about my day. The nighttime longer crying period I let t the tears come silently as long as I could and then I put my face in the pillow so the crying wouldn't wake anyone up

Lip curl: Yup and some chin wobble.

People Present: Me