It's not a real observation, but it was nice and vivid (if short), so I figured I'd post it.  I dreamed that it was the anniversary of my bf's mom's death (she's alive irl, thankfully).  He and I were sitting around the table with some friends (he at one of the heads of the table and me around the corner next to him) and his mom briefly came up in conversation.  Our friends offered condolences, but shortly after became distracted in a different conversation.  I looked over at him and saw that he looked sad and distracted, so I reached my hand toward him.  He took it and continued holding it while we sat there, our other friends too distracted to notice anything wrong.  The two of us kept talking about his mom, and his head was bowed somewhat.  At one point, I said something nice to him, and he looked up at me and smiled.  When he did that, I noticed a couple tears running down his cheek out of the outside corner of his eye.  When I saw that, I got up and went around the table to wrap my arms around him.  Unfortunately, that's as far as my dream went, but it was really nice to see him openly show me tears, if only in a dream.