Jun 24
Tears Of Anger
Everyone seems to be able to understand tears of joy and tears of sadness, but — men especially — seem unable to understand tears of anger.
If I am truly angry, I cry. And it’s a lot harder to stop these tears of anger because I then become angry with myself that I am crying because I’m angry. It’s a vicious cycle.
I know I’m not alone in reacting to anger with tears because I inherited this unfortunate tendency from my mother. Surely there are others beside the two of us?
June 24th, 2009 at 5:43 pm
No, it isn’t just the two of you.
June 24th, 2009 at 6:08 pm
Heavens… I also hope it’s not just the three of us!
June 24th, 2009 at 10:23 pm
Um, yea I inherited that too. Why are you angry?
July 27th, 2009 at 10:26 am
I realize this is an old post – but I just ran across it. And I have to say that YES, I cry when I am angry. I always blamed it on female socialization: that it is “OK” for a woman to cry, but not so OK for her to be angry. (And I have have known men who got angry when they were really sad).
The worst are the tears of frustration – when I have just run out of cope, and yet one more thing is hurled at me. It happens at work sometimes and I HATE that, because I’m supposed to be the big tough cowgirl at work.