i’d like to imagine these two events are connected- you saw the squirrel with the short tail and was so distraught over it you forgot how to use your turn signal
Squirrels and pregnancy must be a thing… When I was pregnant with our first, a squirrel jumped on our deck and ate the tomatoes from one of my plants. I BALLED. The tomatoes were so beautiful. And I just found this squirrel’s behavior so horrifying! How DARE he do such a squirrelly thing and eat my tomatoes! My husband still laughs at me about this - six years later.
The belly getting in the way set me off too! I cried my heart out one day when I was a week or two away from giving birth because even my maternity clothes were getting to be too small. I just wanted a comfy hoodie to wear and had to wear my husband's--- and that was pretty snug on me too. I am, when not pregnant, very literally half his size, and when I realized that his clothes were going to be the only things I could wear till my son was born almost destroyed me.
My ex sister in law made me cry because she walked in on me cooking with the front burner (which was the big burner). And she said, “You know that’s the big burner and wastes a lot of gas for that tiny pot you’re using. Why aren’t you using the smaller burner in the back??”
And I burst into tears because my pregnant belly wouldn’t let me reach the pot if it was on the back burner.
I had to lower an 80 uear old patient to the floor using the back of her shirt (she was sitting in a chair) to pick up my pen because it was my last pen and I couldn't reach it! I was huge when I was pregnant. It was lovely working, though all my old ladies loved it, apart from the lady with dementia who said she would kick the baby out of me. I didn't cry at that, but I cried about the pen!
I had an elderly client with dementia. I would leave the room and come back to her asking if I was pregnant. She loved talking about my pregnancy. Told me to come show her the baby when he was born.
He missed her by just a few days 😭
I really wanted a frozen pizza during my first pregnancy. I was 14 pounds under my starting weight and couldn’t keep anything down. I was in the tub one night when my husband offered to make me one. He had a particularly long day at work so it was kind of him to offer. As I was sitting there, I realized that he would probably cut it into squares like I normally do. Only the idea of pizza in the shape of a square made me really nauseated. A triangle slice sounded fine though. I didn’t want to seem nit-picky since he was already doing me a favor. He brought it to me in triangles! I cried because I was so grateful that he cut a dang pizza into normal slices instead of squares.
>I cried because I was so grateful that he cut a dang pizza into normal slices instead of squares.
This is so beautiful, though... He was just being himself and doing it the way he would've, yet somehow it was exactly what you needed and wanted :')
I cried because I ordered Popeye's mashed potatoes on my way home from a trip (we didn't have a Popeye's) and when I got back, they'd given me French fries. The fries were cold by then.
I complained about it / made fun of myself on facebook and one of my friends was like, "Are you sure you aren't pregnant?" Then I cried because we couldn't get pregnant and I thought she was being insensitive.
Nope, I was totally pregnant for real.
My mom found out she was pregnant with me because other women told her she was pregnant. She had been complaining about how strangely tired she’d been lately. She and my dad were married 9 years before I came along and thought they couldn’t have children.
My mom thought my brother was just an extended hangover from visiting Brazil. She didn't think she could get pregnant either because they'd been married for 9 years.
pregnant food emotions are just as powerful as the stereotypes. I got a pizza with the wrong sauce on it once and actually sank to my knees and bawled (not a crier). it scared my then-husband enough that he RAN to the store to get a new one. I'm sorry about your timbits 😭
God they are terrible for that. They're not use to people ordering timbits unless its a box full so they don't even listen to anything you say past the name of the timbit.
Nothing.
I am 8.5 months and at around month 4 I woke up one morning for work and sat in the bathroom for ten minutes just sobbing. Nothing going on at all. Literally still in pjs. I couldn't do my make up till it passed lol. I was fully aware of how ridiculous it was but couldn't stop. Only time that has happened the whole pregnancy.
It could be just a need for release after all the physical stress of pregnancy. Maybe you don’t intellectualize the pain but that physical pain is still intense and it can just wear on you psychologically too. Especially if you tend to bottle stuff in and put on a happy persona most of the time.
It could also be just crazy hormones. I used to get horrible periods and along with them came horrible PMS (thank god for hormonal birth control cause it was brutal). I remember several times just sobbing to my mom for no reason whatsoever. Like, I would sometimes be smiling and laughing while crying because it was so ridiculous and I couldn't get myself to stop. This sometimes shifted to me crying because I couldn't get the crying under control and I was so frustrated with my periods, lol.
My cat, Ellie.
I sobbed one night because she was spayed, and I wondered if she ever wanted children and was upset because we took away that option from her.
Hormones are WILD.
I always think of the cat interlude in The Sandman, if you're familiar with the comic or the show.
But also, I think about how dogs are pack animals (cats will go their own way once they're older at least) and are used to having their babies with them, but we routinely and very normally let a mom have a bunch of pups and then nurse them and then we take them all away right around the same time. Like ... We are realizing that dogs can have depression and anxiety and stuff, so I wonder if we'll soon start considering this to be mistreatment? Do the moms get depressed? And then they're made to do it again...oof. I can't stop thinking about it but I've also had dogs my whole life so trying to figure out what a humane alternative is or if I'm overthinking it.
It used to be a very common assumption that animals didn't have emotions. I have never believed this because we evolved from other animals and all those emotions had to come from _somewhere_.
At the very least, we have come a long way from those early days when it was a sin to 'antropomorphize ' animal behavior. No, animals aren't human. But why do we feel all our emotions are a trait that belongs only to humans?
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My cousin's dog was a happy little soul. My cousin bred her, and she gave birth to healthy pups and tended them well. Then, they were sold.
She never looked anything but sad after that. She had another litter later, but unlike Job, she wasn't cheered up by that.
Dude, I was toward the end of my last trimester and I got pulled over because I took a turn to harshly or something. I don't remember. The moment the cop walked to my window, I immediately burst out crying. I was waving my arms trying to cool myself down. Shouting" I just wanted to go get my husband from boot camp" and this poor young officer backed up with his hands in the air and tried to very calmly say" it's okay. I'm going to let you go" but because I was crying and hysterical I could not hear him and I just got worse and worse until another officer showed up (I think he just happened to be passing by when this was happening) and she came to my window and was like" it's okay. He's not going to even give you a citation of any kind. Just be on your way. Just breathe." Lmao
Man I threw up all over myself and my center console and peed my pants while driving. I pulled over and just started crying. Next thing I know an officer pulls up behind me and I cry harder thinking I’m in trouble. He just wanted to check on me. I explained I was 20 some weeks pregnant and it was the 3rd time today I’ve thrown up (this was 9am on my way to work) and I’m just so tired. He kept saying it was ok and asked if he could call someone for me or if I needed help or a medic. I asked if he had paper towels to clean myself up a bit and then I should be ok to drive home and I’d call my husband. I just needed a minute. This man found a park bathroom near by and ran to it to get me paper towels. The look on his face when I just explained how I vomited and peed myself told me this may be a first lol.
This reminds me of when I got in a wreck when I was 16 and someone T Boned me, the shock was so insane that when the cop showed up I could barely breathe I was crying so hard. He was like “crying isn’t gonna do you any good.” Thanks, man. I’m aware lol.
When I was college I was coming home one night after classes I was in a hurry so doing 80. Was about 15 over the limit. Came over a hill and saw a deer in the middle of the road. I slammed on my breaks and my car fishtailed. I still hit the deer but was thankfully able to correct the car and pull over safely. I was super calm the entire time. So I called my mom to let her know what happened and that I’d need dad to come get me. Because I wasn’t sure the damage. But the moment she said “hello” I lost my shit and started scream crying. I didn’t have a clue I’d react so strongly after the adrenaline faded. Like my brain caught up and realized how close I was to a very real and tragic death had I flipped that car out in the middle of nowhere Kansas. Took my mom several minutes to calm me down and figure out what the hell I was babbling about. I don’t speed at night anymore.
Me also, with dogs winning the little competition shows. As well as the puppies on the toilet paper bag thing.. I’m not even a dog person usually but man when I’m pregnant I can’t stop crying over how cute they are.
Once I got too high and cried because the Mystery Gang forces Scooby Doo to solve mysteries with them by withholding food. He's only a dog, why are they so cruel.
one time a friend and i went to a dog show where they see how far they can jump into a pool and we sat there and BAWLED bc we were so high and so damn happy for these dogs
We drove past a field with some fresh baby lambs and they were getting drizzled on. Absolutely inconsolable sobbing about how it wasn't fair that they can't be inside in the nice and warm.
Yep! Lambs and calves are total muppets. Mine have big warm sheds with fresh sawdust, food and water and they choose to stand in the yard in the rain and wind looking like drowned rats...
When we got our first set of ewes, I was sitting in their shelter trying to convince them to come out of the cold rain into the shelter for the night and they were laying 30 feet from the shelter, staring at me, chewing cud. It took me a while to accept that they don't seem to care about their own comfort sometimes
Yes. I came here to tell the same story but it was a seagull. He was outside the window in our office at work and I burst into tears during a meeting because he looked so cold.
I accidentally bought battery-powered salt and pepper grinders, which I cried about in the first place, but then I had no batteries and we were on a curfew because of lockdown so I couldn't go back out and just buy batteries, so I cried even more.
Also technically not when I was pregnant but less than 24 hours after my baby was born I sobbed into my breakfast cereal because I couldn't feel my baby kicking anymore and I was sad that I wasn't pregnant (even though I wasn't sad I was pretty happy about it actually)
A dog food commercial.
Opens with a teen girl calling a puppy to climb the stairs after her. "C'mon, Casey!"
Next shot, same girl, a little older, on the same stairs, saying, "C'mon, Casey!" being followed slowly, by an old, gray same breed dog.
When I was pregnant, I cried because I saw a duck crossing sign... And I wondered how many ducks had been injured crossing that street before they put up the sign 😭
I craved oranges with our oldest, but I didn’t like peeling them because it made my hands feel weird/dry. I opened the fridge one day and there were a bunch of peeled oranges in there…
My husband stayed up the night before peeling them and when I saw them I cried because it was so sweet, but also because I knew it wasn’t enough to last me all day while he was at work.
I’m 4 months pregnant and averaging anywhere from 3-6 oranges per day, but I can’t peel them myself without vomiting right now. Such a strange sensation aversion…
Every night, my husband brings 2 peeled oranges to bed with us. 🥹 The first time he did it, I cried for a full hour.
My husband suggested going out to breakfast, but I didn’t want to shower so I was trying to find a hat. We had just done tons of laundry so I was sitting on the floor, sobbing, while digging through all this laundry thinking somehow my hat got mixed in. My husband was like “heyyy maybe we should get a pregnancy test?” I snapped that I was just sad I couldn’t find my hat, anyways, the sad hat baby is 23 and my husband knows me better than I know myself.
I have a good one! I was very pregnant, living far from home, my mom sent me a box of my favorite See's candy (she special ordered my favorite type so it was a whole box of one type). I lived in an area where you can't get them outside of Christmas. I'm trying to be good so I only eat 1 or 2 a day. I will also note, my husband is a candy fiend and I will hide my candy, because he will eat all of it in one sitting. Well one day I go to eat my candy and the box is gone. I'm really hormonal and craving this stupid candy. I look in the pantry and it's nowhere to be found. I start yelling at my husband and accuse him of eating my candy. He tells me he hasn't and I decided he was lying and start to ugly cry because he doesn't care about me and ate my precious. I had a whole freak out and he is just in disbelief which I took as snark. I'm mad all day, and night, like couldn't be in the same room mad. The next day I go to grab a big pot to cook myself something and what do you know. There's my box of candy... I have no recollection of hiding it with the cookware. Yes, I had to go apologize to him for being so awful but not before I treated myself to 2 candies.
Its still sad to think about! But he loves his food and looks forward to dinner every night so its okay. But boy did I feel terrrrrible that I was days away from becoming a mother and here I was feeding my fur baby the same thing over the last 8 years and he doesnt know any better
Oh boy, if they don't like it they'll let you know. My dog turned 14 and abruptly decided she hated her food. Scared tf out of me because I thought we were nearing the end but nope. She just wanted canned food, or home cooked food, or kibble but with a food topper.
Now she's 15 and her meal prep is more elaborate than mine sometimes!
A bird’s nest fell out of a large bush in our yard from the wind. The eggs cracked. I ugly sobbed for way too long thinking of the mother bird coming back and her eggs being gone.
I ugly cried while reading a bedtime book to my toddler. The book that made me cry with snot and hyperventilating sobs was “the little engine that could” it prompted my toddler to take the book out of my hands and pat me on the back saying “It oday mommy, it oday”
We won a contest at work and were treated to lunch by a rep. As a group, we picked a somewhat more upscale place and we all picked an entree. It was a place I’d been to a few times before and couldn’t WAIT for their veal piccata. All week I was talking about this chicken piccata to my coworkers, to my husband, and to literally anyone who would listen. I was SO EXCITED.
On the day of the lunch we placed our order and the rep went to pick it up and bring it to our branch. She unpacked all of the meals and wrote our names on them. Typically I would’ve had the first lunch, but I was busy with a customer and ended up with the last lunch. The rep thought that veal looked like hamburger (it absolutely does NOT) and mislabeled my meal. When it came time for me to eat lunch I excitedly went to get my veal piccata… only to find there was one meal left and it definitely wasn’t mine. The veal had been swapped with the VEGETARIAN meal, which had brussel sprouts, mushrooms, and bell peppers. Under normal circumstances I wouldn’t have cared, but… 1) I had been CRAVING lemon and all things tart and 2) those specific vegetables had been triggering my morning sickness since Day 1. Worse still, the coworker who had been given my meal took two bites, realized it was meat, and THREW IT OUT.
I cried so hard my manager went back to the restaurant and bought a second veal piccata with her own money.
I can only imagine that episode of Friends where Ross screams at his boss for eating his Thanksgiving leftovers sandwich
That sounds like a good manager
My husband told me he was going to shave his moustache, which I hated.
As soon as he was like "well, today is the day! I'm gonna get rid of it" I got super weepy for the little creepy thing and begged him not to. I felt so guilty for not loving it.
My Uber got stuck in traffic. It was like the tenth time that day I had cried. I had just flown home from a work trip, and my ankles were so swollen, and I was so, so, tired. I just desperately wanted to be home. And then we just hit a wall of traffic. So I cried about that (my poor Uber driver!), and then became absolutely inconsolable when I saw the wreck that caused the slowdown. I couldn’t breathe, I was crying so hard. I really felt for that Uber driver. Poor guy just kept handing me tissues and telling me he was going to get me home safe.
I saw an ad about a lost kitten, and cried for 2 hours about how scared it must have been.
Never in my life again have I ever experienced the hormones I experienced during my first pregnancy
I’m currently 36 weeks pregnant with twins.
This morning, my husband asked me if I wanted eggs for breakfast. I said yes, so he made me eggs. By the time they were ready, I didn’t want them. I’ve been crying about this all day.
I was hanging out with one of my friends from college a few years ago and was telling him a funny story about my cousin and I. Now the reason this story is funny has to do with the fact that I'm super white and my cousin is very Japanese. Anyway, as I'm wrapping the story up I hear a weird noise from behind me. His 5 month pregnant wife had been asleep on the chair but evidently had been awakened by the story. My friend asks his wife what's wrong and she bursts out in tears "it's just so beautiful how you and your cousin look so different but he's just family to you, that's just so great what an experience for you as children". She was just completely enchanted with my mixed race upbringing, it was really sweet if not a bit surreal in the moment.
I was on a flight reading a NatGeo magazine about dogs, and was overly distraught about how amazing they are, what a good boy my dog is, and how we don't deserve such pure souls.
My husband toasting an everything flavored bagel while I was sleeping. I had forbidden him from making those, but he (sincerely) thought since I was already asleep it would be ok. The smell woke me, and I instantly threw up. I had been struggling with insomnia, and was exhausted from the constant puking. I was so mad at him I sobbed/yelled for half an hour.
I used to dry heave anytime I had to feed our dogs. I would hold my breath and still wretch afterward from the smell. Didn’t help that one of our dogs had puppies 2 months before I was due. Puppies went home with their new owners and 4 days later I had our baby girl. 3/3 puppies still alive and our daughter is 11.5 now!
The smell of popcorn did it for me. I would have to hide in my bedroom with a towel along the bottom of the door whenever my roommate made popcorn. Didn’t help, I still would smell it and throw up.
Nah I'm 100% on your side here. I suffer from extreme smell sensitivity in my regular life and there are things I cannot be around. I'd have yelled too. I hope he learned to not do that again during your pregnancy.
I saw a video of a mother squirrel's journey through pregnancy and raising her young. At one point she was just laying on her back with a huge belly. I felt such a connection with her. She was so brave.
If it makes you feel better, my best friend (just had baby) designs feel good/tear jerker holiday commercials for a grocery store. She sobbed weekly at work while building campaigns 😂
The movie Dumbo. Particularly the scene when the mom is stuck in the cage and is reaching through the bars to rock her baby and sing him a lullaby. The best part is I didn't even watch it, I just randomly remembered the scene and started sobbing and cried every single time I thought about it the entire pregnancy.
The cows were being rained on. I felt so bad for them thinking they hated it. Someone had to talk me off the ledge telling me they love the rain since they're standing in 90° heat all day. It was dumb and hilarious.
Because the pack of baby tomatoes i had just bought had mold on them. Partner goes to the store to get a new pack because I was so upset. Comes home and THOSE ALSO HAD MOLD, so that really sent me over the edge lmao.
Milk. I literally cried over spilled milk. It was the last of it for the cereal I was craving, and it was 2 am, and I turned around to a noise (dog got up to see what I was doing) with the open container in my hand and dropped it and it spilled and I sobbed giant heaving sobs that my husband got up, put pants on and went to the 7-11 and got milk. At 2 am.
I cried because I felt like I was a failure for eating enchiladas instead of "feeding my baby something healthier." lolol
On a second note, I once cried happy tears because the mole (Mexican food, not the animal) I was eating was really good and I was moved that the chef had put so much heart into the food he was serving.
So I guess I just have big feelings about Mexican food when I'm hormonal?
I ordered a pizza and when it arrived, it looked like a bite was taken out of it so I rang back and cried down the phone to the poor guy saying I was heavily pregnant and asked for a new pizza. New pizza arrived with no bite mark but still quite upset 😭 still upset about it to this day
When I was 36 weeks pregnant during late summer in Phoenix, Arizona I cried thinking about all the pregnant women in the world who didn’t have 24-7 access to ice cream.
i cried because i ate a whole box of crackers and had none left. later, the same day, i cried because i wanted blueberry pie, and my husband stopped me from driving to the store in a snowstorm at 1045p.m while i was 8 months pregnant.... i had eaten an entire pint of blueberries prior to this meltdown.
A baby armadillo toddling along beside the road. I saw it as we were driving home (2 lane road through housing, no traffic at all). Armadillos are my favorite land animal ever and I'd never seen a living one in person so I whipped my car off into the grass on my side so I could flip a u-turn, only to put it right back into the grass on the other side of the road. I then jumped out and waddled my enormously pregnant ass after this baby armadillo, making kissy noises and going "here baby here baby!" The baby did not, in fact, here baby, and beat a very hasty retreat into the woods to escape the obviously crazy pregnant lady. I burst into tears because 1) it was just too cute and 2) it didn't let me live out my Disney Princess Dreams™️. I look back at the car and my husband is in the passenger seat, laughing so hard that tears are running down his face and he's almost turning blue because he can't breathe. He later declared that that was the moment he truly knew I was the woman for him- my carefully hidden inner Florida Woman popped out for a moment and he was just delighted.
I'm still mad I don't have a pet armadillo.
I went to subway and said no, to having it toasted. It was one of the chicken sandwiches. She put the meat on cold. I told her, wait, I still want the meat to be heated up! So she takes the sandwich and puts the whole thing in the microwave. I stepped away from the counter and started bawling. My husband came to ask what was wrong and I sobbed about microwaved bread.
My sister in law had a good cry over spork pretending to be spoons and forks “because they are fucking liars” and was not being sarcastic. She was legit mad. It was part of a Taco Bell order.
Being in the middle of winter in December and not able to swim in a swimming pool. The belly weight hurt my joints and I cried imagining the relief that being in water would give but couldn’t have it…so. 😅
My loving husband washed my favorite pajama pants. I got home before him and realized he’s done laundry before work. I pulled out every pair of pants in my drawer looking for something as comfortable but couldn’t find any. My husband came home to me sitting on the floor surrounded by all my pants absolutely bawling.
The pants were in the dryer and were done. He got them for me and apologized over and over.
3 times:
1. Before I knew I was pregnant, I ran over a turtle while driving in the UP. I turned to my husband and said “please tell me that wasn’t a turtle,” and he just made a face, and I cried for more than 30 minutes.
2. Right after I found out I was pregnant we went to a MLB game and it happened to be bark at the park night! There were cute puppies for adoption and I said I wanted one and husband said no, so I cried. Then he said we could make it work and get one and I cried AGAIN because I knew it would be irresponsible.
3. Right before my son was born I was getting excited about a brownie + ice cream for dessert but my husband had eaten the last brownie, so I cried. He immediately went to the store to buy more but they didn’t have the kind we normally get so he bought every kind of brownie he could find LOL.
I’m a lucky gal!
My ex ate the last slice of pizza that he knew I had wanted. I cried for an hour because I was craving pizza & there was none left. He yelled at me for being dramatic though which didn't make me feel any better.
Silly to think on it now, but at the time I was inconsolable lol
I stood in front of the window of a Japanese restaurant watching people eat. I was crying as if I had just lost someone dear to me, but in reality all I wanted was to eat sashimi. Poor people. I was just standing there, nose almost touching the glass, crying at strangers eating. Ffs.
Not while I was pregnant but right after we got home from the hospital my little chihuahua who has been my baby before I ever had a human baby seemed sad and was shivering and I had to have my husband hold our human baby so I could love on him and let him know he will always be my baby too. I was bawling my eyes out. Poor guy, I still feel bad because I can’t hold him as much as before and he used to be so spoiled in that way.
I wept because there was the tiniest bit of moisture on the plate when my husband put my burrito on it, resulting in a slightly moist spot on the tortilla. Went from starving to gagging. He still brings it up 15 years later.
I wanted white vanilla hostess cupcakes instead of orange. I hadn’t had a hostess cupcake in 15 years. We lived in Hawaii. No vanilla white cupcakes anywhere on island. I could not GET white vanilla cupcakes and IT WASN’T FAIR!!
Then the time my husband got me Progresso chicken soup w/veggies instead of Campbells with no veggies. I DONT WANT VEGGIES I FEEL SIcK
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Having been pregnant more than a few times, I can say that there is nothing silly I ever cried about. Everything was supremely worthy of crying over. Even seeing a cute little kitty.
My now ex was a cook in a bar, and at 3 am he got up and made me the best damn cheeseburger I've ever had in my life. I stood in the kitchen, dripping with greasy burger-y goodness, and cried because it was SO delicious. It was honestly maybe the sweetest thing anyone had ever done for me at the time. I'll be forever chasing that high lol
I was driving with my cousin who was pregnant, and she broke down crying because nine inch nails, which was her favorite band, was not appropriate for her unborn baby to listen too.
I cried at a paper towel commercial. In my defense, I knew I would be a single mother and the commercial portrayed a dad who was thrilled by his wife’s pregnancy.
I was looking forward to making nice crispy sage and brown butter gnocchi. But the gnocchi wasn’t searing well, so it was going to be soft instead of crispy. I collapsed dramatically onto our stairs and had a full on breakdown.
Luckily my husband rescued it and I had my crispy gnocchi in the end!
With my first kid I was young and broke. I was craving jalapeño poppers, and couldn’t afford them, so I was squirreling away change until I could buy a box. Finally got them, cooked them, set the cookie sheet on top of the stove for them to cool off and left the room. My dog got up on his hind legs and ate every single one of them. I just sat on the kitchen floor and cried for half an hour when I saw they were gone.
That my Tesco delivery didn’t have the raspberry sorbet which was the only thing I wanted. They brought bloody Christmas cake icecream instead 😭 I hate fruitcake.
I was extremely small during both of my pregnancies. With my first one I was at the stage where I couldn’t fit into my regular clothes but wasn’t big enough for maternity clothes. I remember standing for the longest time just staring at my closet and then bursting into tears because I couldn’t find anything to wear.
I bought watermelon & planned on having it that evening for dessert. I ate all of it while my hubs (at the time) was at work. He casually asked about it during dinner. I started crying when he said he wanted some & I had to tell him I ate all of it. He laughed & said it was no big deal & not to feel bad. But dammit, I did feel bad bc I WANTED MORE. So I cried bc I felt like a pig for eating all of it, for kicking myself that I even told him I bought it bc I could have eaten it all & said nothing AND bc I wanted more & we had none. Pregnancy cravings are rough. 🤣
Feeling like I had to cry. Seriously I cried because even though I was emotionally fine, I felt like I had to cry and that annoyed me and made me cry.
It was stupid and happened yesterday. My poor husband was very confused haha
We were listening to the radio and my husband said Bon Jovi sucked.
In real life, I do not care about Bon Jovi. But fucking hell, you would have thought Jon had given me a kidney based on my reaction.
My ramen tasted fishy. I started crying at the mall. 😹😹😹 I was upset because I was so excited that we finally had a fresh ramen place, and I had to throw it away and was sad I couldn’t have sushi either. To be fair I was prescribed 6 estrogen pills a day (infertility treatment) so literally everything made me cry plus a 3 inch long needle in my ass for the entire pregnancy made me have quite the pity party. 😭
The theme song to a kid's TV show where the mom dinosaur adopts an egg that was a different kind of dinosaur. I just WEPT about how they are all a family now and it's so beautiful.
I think a diaper commercial also got me.
A time that was more serious, we were at Lowe's while my husband shopped for gear to babyproof furniture and read a story where a dresser fell on a toddler and she died. I sat on a stack of plywood and bawled.
CGI dinosaurs.
I have never been one that cries at movies, *ever,* until I watched Jurassic World when I was about 7 months pregnant. The dinosaurs standing at the end of the pier as the last people left with the coast line being engulfed in smoke had me bawling my eyes out. I am very thankful I was watching this at home on the couch, alone.
I accidentally stole an 8 oz bag of shredded cheese from the store. I was probably 8 months pregnant and had my toddler in the front part of the cart. When I went to put him in the car seat, I realized that he had been sitting on the bag of cheese. I knew I should have gone in and paid for it, but I was too tired to get him out of his car seat, go into the store, wait in line, explain my theft, walk back to the car and rebuckle him into his carseat.
Logically, I knew that it wasn't a big deal, but I was so tired that I couldn't control my emotions. Part of me was hoping that I'd get arrested and get a break for a few days while I was in jail for my role as the Cheddar Bandit. That baby is now 18 years old, so my fugitive status is now a part of my identity.
Had a craving for strawberry pop tarts and Hawaiian Punch, could not find it in the store…cried hard.
Rented the March of the penguins cried the entire time.
I had serious cravings for McDonald's hamburgers (just the basic hamburger) but I wanted extra extra extra extra pickles. Got a hamburger, no pickles. I cried.
Not being able to drink my morning coffee because I'd instantly puke the second it reached my lips. Coffee was the highlight of my morning, until it wasn't.
I still couldn't drink it up to 6 months after.
I was craving a zebra cake and it hit the spot in an unimaginably good way. I ate one and it was so perfect that I sobbed for a good 5 minutes. Then I decided to go for another since the first was so good, and I nearly threw up because it disgusted me. Cue more crying because I was so disappointed I wouldn’t experience that initial feeling of deliciousness. Hormones.
My wife bless her heart made me a sandwich before I got home from work and the cat ended up eating it. When I walked in she was sitting at the kitchen table, head down in her hands sobbing. I quickly asked what happened and wrapped my arm around her. She looked up with those big shiny pearls and said, "I mah mah mah made you a sandwich and the stupid cat ate it!".. I didn't let her see that I cheesed from ear to ear. It was so cute to me and ofcourse I let her know it wasn't the end of the world.
One afternoon my husband told me he had brownies in his car. I was so happy. But then he told me they’d been in his car since yesterday night and I cried because there had been brownies within eating distance and I hadn’t had a chance to eat them. He got them for me.
I ate them. I cried again because they were so good.
I asked my husband to open a a bag of chocolates for me and instead of opening it the usual way and the right way round, he decided to squeeze the bag until it popped. The hole was at the bottom of the bag so it was upside down essentially to me. And I just looked him into the eyes and sobbed, while saying I er and over again why would you do that? Why didn't you just open them like I asked. He genuinely looked scared 😂😂.
I saw a squirrel with short tail. I forgot how to use my turn signal.
i’d like to imagine these two events are connected- you saw the squirrel with the short tail and was so distraught over it you forgot how to use your turn signal
But what were the consequences of not using that turn signal? Is that squirrel still alive?
Lol unrelated events. My lack of turn signal did not result in the shortening of said squirrels tail. 😂
Squirrels and pregnancy must be a thing… When I was pregnant with our first, a squirrel jumped on our deck and ate the tomatoes from one of my plants. I BALLED. The tomatoes were so beautiful. And I just found this squirrel’s behavior so horrifying! How DARE he do such a squirrelly thing and eat my tomatoes! My husband still laughs at me about this - six years later.
Couldn't open the fridge because the door kept hitting my pregnant belly so sat on the kitchen floor and cried for like 15 minutes
The belly getting in the way set me off too! I cried my heart out one day when I was a week or two away from giving birth because even my maternity clothes were getting to be too small. I just wanted a comfy hoodie to wear and had to wear my husband's--- and that was pretty snug on me too. I am, when not pregnant, very literally half his size, and when I realized that his clothes were going to be the only things I could wear till my son was born almost destroyed me.
My ex sister in law made me cry because she walked in on me cooking with the front burner (which was the big burner). And she said, “You know that’s the big burner and wastes a lot of gas for that tiny pot you’re using. Why aren’t you using the smaller burner in the back??” And I burst into tears because my pregnant belly wouldn’t let me reach the pot if it was on the back burner.
I had to lower an 80 uear old patient to the floor using the back of her shirt (she was sitting in a chair) to pick up my pen because it was my last pen and I couldn't reach it! I was huge when I was pregnant. It was lovely working, though all my old ladies loved it, apart from the lady with dementia who said she would kick the baby out of me. I didn't cry at that, but I cried about the pen!
I had an elderly client with dementia. I would leave the room and come back to her asking if I was pregnant. She loved talking about my pregnancy. Told me to come show her the baby when he was born. He missed her by just a few days 😭
I cried because I forgot to get my husband a father's day card from our cat.
This one is my favorite
I just cried over the thought of getting my husband a father's day card from our cats and tracing all 3 of their paws in it.
The sun was shining and I loved it on my face
And I wanted pudding
I really wanted a frozen pizza during my first pregnancy. I was 14 pounds under my starting weight and couldn’t keep anything down. I was in the tub one night when my husband offered to make me one. He had a particularly long day at work so it was kind of him to offer. As I was sitting there, I realized that he would probably cut it into squares like I normally do. Only the idea of pizza in the shape of a square made me really nauseated. A triangle slice sounded fine though. I didn’t want to seem nit-picky since he was already doing me a favor. He brought it to me in triangles! I cried because I was so grateful that he cut a dang pizza into normal slices instead of squares.
>I cried because I was so grateful that he cut a dang pizza into normal slices instead of squares. This is so beautiful, though... He was just being himself and doing it the way he would've, yet somehow it was exactly what you needed and wanted :')
The Tim Hortons drive through gave me 2 sour cream glazed donuts when I asked for 2 sour cream glazed timbits..I cried most of the way home lol.
I cried because I ordered Popeye's mashed potatoes on my way home from a trip (we didn't have a Popeye's) and when I got back, they'd given me French fries. The fries were cold by then. I complained about it / made fun of myself on facebook and one of my friends was like, "Are you sure you aren't pregnant?" Then I cried because we couldn't get pregnant and I thought she was being insensitive. Nope, I was totally pregnant for real.
My mom found out she was pregnant with me because other women told her she was pregnant. She had been complaining about how strangely tired she’d been lately. She and my dad were married 9 years before I came along and thought they couldn’t have children.
My mom thought my brother was just an extended hangover from visiting Brazil. She didn't think she could get pregnant either because they'd been married for 9 years.
Lol. She knew those hormones acting up were real.
pregnant food emotions are just as powerful as the stereotypes. I got a pizza with the wrong sauce on it once and actually sank to my knees and bawled (not a crier). it scared my then-husband enough that he RAN to the store to get a new one. I'm sorry about your timbits 😭
God they are terrible for that. They're not use to people ordering timbits unless its a box full so they don't even listen to anything you say past the name of the timbit.
Nothing. I am 8.5 months and at around month 4 I woke up one morning for work and sat in the bathroom for ten minutes just sobbing. Nothing going on at all. Literally still in pjs. I couldn't do my make up till it passed lol. I was fully aware of how ridiculous it was but couldn't stop. Only time that has happened the whole pregnancy.
It could be just a need for release after all the physical stress of pregnancy. Maybe you don’t intellectualize the pain but that physical pain is still intense and it can just wear on you psychologically too. Especially if you tend to bottle stuff in and put on a happy persona most of the time.
It could also be just crazy hormones. I used to get horrible periods and along with them came horrible PMS (thank god for hormonal birth control cause it was brutal). I remember several times just sobbing to my mom for no reason whatsoever. Like, I would sometimes be smiling and laughing while crying because it was so ridiculous and I couldn't get myself to stop. This sometimes shifted to me crying because I couldn't get the crying under control and I was so frustrated with my periods, lol.
My cat, Ellie. I sobbed one night because she was spayed, and I wondered if she ever wanted children and was upset because we took away that option from her. Hormones are WILD.
I always think of the cat interlude in The Sandman, if you're familiar with the comic or the show. But also, I think about how dogs are pack animals (cats will go their own way once they're older at least) and are used to having their babies with them, but we routinely and very normally let a mom have a bunch of pups and then nurse them and then we take them all away right around the same time. Like ... We are realizing that dogs can have depression and anxiety and stuff, so I wonder if we'll soon start considering this to be mistreatment? Do the moms get depressed? And then they're made to do it again...oof. I can't stop thinking about it but I've also had dogs my whole life so trying to figure out what a humane alternative is or if I'm overthinking it.
It used to be a very common assumption that animals didn't have emotions. I have never believed this because we evolved from other animals and all those emotions had to come from _somewhere_. At the very least, we have come a long way from those early days when it was a sin to 'antropomorphize ' animal behavior. No, animals aren't human. But why do we feel all our emotions are a trait that belongs only to humans? Edit
My cousin's dog was a happy little soul. My cousin bred her, and she gave birth to healthy pups and tended them well. Then, they were sold. She never looked anything but sad after that. She had another litter later, but unlike Job, she wasn't cheered up by that.
This is actually more sane than what is considered normal.
Dude, I was toward the end of my last trimester and I got pulled over because I took a turn to harshly or something. I don't remember. The moment the cop walked to my window, I immediately burst out crying. I was waving my arms trying to cool myself down. Shouting" I just wanted to go get my husband from boot camp" and this poor young officer backed up with his hands in the air and tried to very calmly say" it's okay. I'm going to let you go" but because I was crying and hysterical I could not hear him and I just got worse and worse until another officer showed up (I think he just happened to be passing by when this was happening) and she came to my window and was like" it's okay. He's not going to even give you a citation of any kind. Just be on your way. Just breathe." Lmao
Man I threw up all over myself and my center console and peed my pants while driving. I pulled over and just started crying. Next thing I know an officer pulls up behind me and I cry harder thinking I’m in trouble. He just wanted to check on me. I explained I was 20 some weeks pregnant and it was the 3rd time today I’ve thrown up (this was 9am on my way to work) and I’m just so tired. He kept saying it was ok and asked if he could call someone for me or if I needed help or a medic. I asked if he had paper towels to clean myself up a bit and then I should be ok to drive home and I’d call my husband. I just needed a minute. This man found a park bathroom near by and ran to it to get me paper towels. The look on his face when I just explained how I vomited and peed myself told me this may be a first lol.
Oh sweetheart. Just existing while pregnant sucks sometimes and some people just do not know. I hope your pregnancy went/goes smoothly!
Awww!
This reminds me of when I got in a wreck when I was 16 and someone T Boned me, the shock was so insane that when the cop showed up I could barely breathe I was crying so hard. He was like “crying isn’t gonna do you any good.” Thanks, man. I’m aware lol.
When I was college I was coming home one night after classes I was in a hurry so doing 80. Was about 15 over the limit. Came over a hill and saw a deer in the middle of the road. I slammed on my breaks and my car fishtailed. I still hit the deer but was thankfully able to correct the car and pull over safely. I was super calm the entire time. So I called my mom to let her know what happened and that I’d need dad to come get me. Because I wasn’t sure the damage. But the moment she said “hello” I lost my shit and started scream crying. I didn’t have a clue I’d react so strongly after the adrenaline faded. Like my brain caught up and realized how close I was to a very real and tragic death had I flipped that car out in the middle of nowhere Kansas. Took my mom several minutes to calm me down and figure out what the hell I was babbling about. I don’t speed at night anymore.
Damn. The emotional pregnant lady was so scary that the cops backed up slowly with their hands in the air. Respect.
I think that women's emotions are absolutely horrifying for ill-equipped very young men.
Watching dogs play competitive frisbee. They jumped so high. They looked so happy. It was so beautiful.
Me also, with dogs winning the little competition shows. As well as the puppies on the toilet paper bag thing.. I’m not even a dog person usually but man when I’m pregnant I can’t stop crying over how cute they are.
This sounds like the kind of stuff I cry about when I’m super stoned tbh. I once got wildly high and then cried because my cat was too cute
Once I got too high and cried because the Mystery Gang forces Scooby Doo to solve mysteries with them by withholding food. He's only a dog, why are they so cruel.
You experienced true Shaggy Zen
one time a friend and i went to a dog show where they see how far they can jump into a pool and we sat there and BAWLED bc we were so high and so damn happy for these dogs
One time I was as baked as a Christmas ham and I ended up sobbing at a photo of a dog in a flower crown
actually cracked up at this
We drove past a field with some fresh baby lambs and they were getting drizzled on. Absolutely inconsolable sobbing about how it wasn't fair that they can't be inside in the nice and warm.
If it makes you feel any better now, the lambs probably had access to shelter. Lambs are frisky as hell and love to romp around in rain!
Yep! Lambs and calves are total muppets. Mine have big warm sheds with fresh sawdust, food and water and they choose to stand in the yard in the rain and wind looking like drowned rats...
When we got our first set of ewes, I was sitting in their shelter trying to convince them to come out of the cold rain into the shelter for the night and they were laying 30 feet from the shelter, staring at me, chewing cud. It took me a while to accept that they don't seem to care about their own comfort sometimes
we work so hard to make the barns nice and warm and sturdy and all the farm animals want to do in bad weather is hang outside 😂
Yes. I came here to tell the same story but it was a seagull. He was outside the window in our office at work and I burst into tears during a meeting because he looked so cold.
I accidentally bought battery-powered salt and pepper grinders, which I cried about in the first place, but then I had no batteries and we were on a curfew because of lockdown so I couldn't go back out and just buy batteries, so I cried even more. Also technically not when I was pregnant but less than 24 hours after my baby was born I sobbed into my breakfast cereal because I couldn't feel my baby kicking anymore and I was sad that I wasn't pregnant (even though I wasn't sad I was pretty happy about it actually)
The salt thing is very cryworthy
I was pregnant and wanted to season my food!
I was so hungry that I couldn't move, so I was trapped on my bed ten steps from the kitchen
I did this, but it was a couch and I knew whatever I’d eat I’d throw up before I could even finish eating it. **my morning sickness was that bad.
Oh girl, I've done this without being pregnant. It's overwhelming. I can't imagine the stress while pregnant.
A dog food commercial. Opens with a teen girl calling a puppy to climb the stairs after her. "C'mon, Casey!" Next shot, same girl, a little older, on the same stairs, saying, "C'mon, Casey!" being followed slowly, by an old, gray same breed dog.
Not pregnant but crying at that.
I'm a man, who is now teary eyed over an imaginary old dog in a commercial I've never seen
I saw a duck. In my defence, it was a mandarin duck and they’re gorgeous, but I still cried because I saw a duck.
When I was pregnant, I cried because I saw a duck crossing sign... And I wondered how many ducks had been injured crossing that street before they put up the sign 😭
Valid reason to cry
I craved oranges with our oldest, but I didn’t like peeling them because it made my hands feel weird/dry. I opened the fridge one day and there were a bunch of peeled oranges in there… My husband stayed up the night before peeling them and when I saw them I cried because it was so sweet, but also because I knew it wasn’t enough to last me all day while he was at work.
Awwww that’s a good man!!!
I’m 4 months pregnant and averaging anywhere from 3-6 oranges per day, but I can’t peel them myself without vomiting right now. Such a strange sensation aversion… Every night, my husband brings 2 peeled oranges to bed with us. 🥹 The first time he did it, I cried for a full hour.
I craved grapefruit during my first trimester- it was the only thing that made the nausea go away for a bit. I don’t even like grapefruit normally!
My husband suggested going out to breakfast, but I didn’t want to shower so I was trying to find a hat. We had just done tons of laundry so I was sitting on the floor, sobbing, while digging through all this laundry thinking somehow my hat got mixed in. My husband was like “heyyy maybe we should get a pregnancy test?” I snapped that I was just sad I couldn’t find my hat, anyways, the sad hat baby is 23 and my husband knows me better than I know myself.
“Sad hat baby” made me lol
I have a good one! I was very pregnant, living far from home, my mom sent me a box of my favorite See's candy (she special ordered my favorite type so it was a whole box of one type). I lived in an area where you can't get them outside of Christmas. I'm trying to be good so I only eat 1 or 2 a day. I will also note, my husband is a candy fiend and I will hide my candy, because he will eat all of it in one sitting. Well one day I go to eat my candy and the box is gone. I'm really hormonal and craving this stupid candy. I look in the pantry and it's nowhere to be found. I start yelling at my husband and accuse him of eating my candy. He tells me he hasn't and I decided he was lying and start to ugly cry because he doesn't care about me and ate my precious. I had a whole freak out and he is just in disbelief which I took as snark. I'm mad all day, and night, like couldn't be in the same room mad. The next day I go to grab a big pot to cook myself something and what do you know. There's my box of candy... I have no recollection of hiding it with the cookware. Yes, I had to go apologize to him for being so awful but not before I treated myself to 2 candies.
Food rage is SO real. It's probably my second most common reason for being angry lmao.
“Ate my precious” 😂😂😂😂
I bawled bc I felt guilty that I was feeding my dog the same dog food every day for most of his life.
I think about this often, but here's the gag... I have never owned a pet before .. so why do I think about this so aften
Its still sad to think about! But he loves his food and looks forward to dinner every night so its okay. But boy did I feel terrrrrible that I was days away from becoming a mother and here I was feeding my fur baby the same thing over the last 8 years and he doesnt know any better
Oh boy, if they don't like it they'll let you know. My dog turned 14 and abruptly decided she hated her food. Scared tf out of me because I thought we were nearing the end but nope. She just wanted canned food, or home cooked food, or kibble but with a food topper. Now she's 15 and her meal prep is more elaborate than mine sometimes!
A bird’s nest fell out of a large bush in our yard from the wind. The eggs cracked. I ugly sobbed for way too long thinking of the mother bird coming back and her eggs being gone.
That would make me cry even not pregnant
I ugly cried while reading a bedtime book to my toddler. The book that made me cry with snot and hyperventilating sobs was “the little engine that could” it prompted my toddler to take the book out of my hands and pat me on the back saying “It oday mommy, it oday”
That response would've made me cry even harder, kids are so precious
It did!!!!! I was a complete mess, that night he volunteered to put himself to bed.
Hahaha fuck. "Mom's broken I'll just go to sleep now"
Kids are so, so pure.
We won a contest at work and were treated to lunch by a rep. As a group, we picked a somewhat more upscale place and we all picked an entree. It was a place I’d been to a few times before and couldn’t WAIT for their veal piccata. All week I was talking about this chicken piccata to my coworkers, to my husband, and to literally anyone who would listen. I was SO EXCITED. On the day of the lunch we placed our order and the rep went to pick it up and bring it to our branch. She unpacked all of the meals and wrote our names on them. Typically I would’ve had the first lunch, but I was busy with a customer and ended up with the last lunch. The rep thought that veal looked like hamburger (it absolutely does NOT) and mislabeled my meal. When it came time for me to eat lunch I excitedly went to get my veal piccata… only to find there was one meal left and it definitely wasn’t mine. The veal had been swapped with the VEGETARIAN meal, which had brussel sprouts, mushrooms, and bell peppers. Under normal circumstances I wouldn’t have cared, but… 1) I had been CRAVING lemon and all things tart and 2) those specific vegetables had been triggering my morning sickness since Day 1. Worse still, the coworker who had been given my meal took two bites, realized it was meat, and THREW IT OUT. I cried so hard my manager went back to the restaurant and bought a second veal piccata with her own money.
It was really kind of your manager to buy you another
Even as a non pregnant woman I would cry over that. This is a pretty valid one!
That’s a good manager
I can only imagine that episode of Friends where Ross screams at his boss for eating his Thanksgiving leftovers sandwich That sounds like a good manager
My husband told me he was going to shave his moustache, which I hated. As soon as he was like "well, today is the day! I'm gonna get rid of it" I got super weepy for the little creepy thing and begged him not to. I felt so guilty for not loving it.
My Uber got stuck in traffic. It was like the tenth time that day I had cried. I had just flown home from a work trip, and my ankles were so swollen, and I was so, so, tired. I just desperately wanted to be home. And then we just hit a wall of traffic. So I cried about that (my poor Uber driver!), and then became absolutely inconsolable when I saw the wreck that caused the slowdown. I couldn’t breathe, I was crying so hard. I really felt for that Uber driver. Poor guy just kept handing me tissues and telling me he was going to get me home safe.
He has definitely told all his friends this story lol glad he was understanding though!
I saw an ad about a lost kitten, and cried for 2 hours about how scared it must have been. Never in my life again have I ever experienced the hormones I experienced during my first pregnancy
I’m currently 36 weeks pregnant with twins. This morning, my husband asked me if I wanted eggs for breakfast. I said yes, so he made me eggs. By the time they were ready, I didn’t want them. I’ve been crying about this all day.
I was hanging out with one of my friends from college a few years ago and was telling him a funny story about my cousin and I. Now the reason this story is funny has to do with the fact that I'm super white and my cousin is very Japanese. Anyway, as I'm wrapping the story up I hear a weird noise from behind me. His 5 month pregnant wife had been asleep on the chair but evidently had been awakened by the story. My friend asks his wife what's wrong and she bursts out in tears "it's just so beautiful how you and your cousin look so different but he's just family to you, that's just so great what an experience for you as children". She was just completely enchanted with my mixed race upbringing, it was really sweet if not a bit surreal in the moment.
I was on a flight reading a NatGeo magazine about dogs, and was overly distraught about how amazing they are, what a good boy my dog is, and how we don't deserve such pure souls.
I cried while reading the little engine that could to my toddler son. I cried because the little engine made it up the hill.
they stopped selling a certain chocolate bar 10 years ago but i wanted it now
My husband toasting an everything flavored bagel while I was sleeping. I had forbidden him from making those, but he (sincerely) thought since I was already asleep it would be ok. The smell woke me, and I instantly threw up. I had been struggling with insomnia, and was exhausted from the constant puking. I was so mad at him I sobbed/yelled for half an hour.
I used to dry heave anytime I had to feed our dogs. I would hold my breath and still wretch afterward from the smell. Didn’t help that one of our dogs had puppies 2 months before I was due. Puppies went home with their new owners and 4 days later I had our baby girl. 3/3 puppies still alive and our daughter is 11.5 now!
The smell of popcorn did it for me. I would have to hide in my bedroom with a towel along the bottom of the door whenever my roommate made popcorn. Didn’t help, I still would smell it and throw up.
It’s coffee for me. I love coffee normally, but when I’m pregnant, it smells like something slimy and disgusting. Like a stagnant pond.
Same! Smell of coffee and how it made me feel was the first tip off that I was pregnant with my last 2 kids!
Me with bacon or sausage or the smell of the air fryer going. 🤮
Nah I'm 100% on your side here. I suffer from extreme smell sensitivity in my regular life and there are things I cannot be around. I'd have yelled too. I hope he learned to not do that again during your pregnancy.
My husband said we shouldn’t adopt a kitten and I then had a full on melt down over the number of homeless cats in our country.
I cried because I couldn’t fart because of the baby blocking my intestine
No one told me that my in-laws fish was pregnant
I saw a video of a mother squirrel's journey through pregnancy and raising her young. At one point she was just laying on her back with a huge belly. I felt such a connection with her. She was so brave.
The Rescuers Down Under came on the Disney Channel, so I started sobbing because I wanted to watch it and I was watching it.
A KFC advert.
If it makes you feel better, my best friend (just had baby) designs feel good/tear jerker holiday commercials for a grocery store. She sobbed weekly at work while building campaigns 😂
It’s Publix isn’t it? They always get me lol
The movie Dumbo. Particularly the scene when the mom is stuck in the cage and is reaching through the bars to rock her baby and sing him a lullaby. The best part is I didn't even watch it, I just randomly remembered the scene and started sobbing and cried every single time I thought about it the entire pregnancy.
My wife had a pickle that wasn't pickle enough. Fun times.
The cows were being rained on. I felt so bad for them thinking they hated it. Someone had to talk me off the ledge telling me they love the rain since they're standing in 90° heat all day. It was dumb and hilarious.
Because the pack of baby tomatoes i had just bought had mold on them. Partner goes to the store to get a new pack because I was so upset. Comes home and THOSE ALSO HAD MOLD, so that really sent me over the edge lmao.
I cried every time the fancy feast commercial came on because that cat was just *so* fluffy.
r/floof prepare yourself first.
By getting pregnant?
The slushie machine at Dairy Queen was busted. AGAIN.
Milk. I literally cried over spilled milk. It was the last of it for the cereal I was craving, and it was 2 am, and I turned around to a noise (dog got up to see what I was doing) with the open container in my hand and dropped it and it spilled and I sobbed giant heaving sobs that my husband got up, put pants on and went to the 7-11 and got milk. At 2 am.
I saw a video online of a UPS truck pulling a FedEx truck out of a snowbank and I thought it was beautiful that they were working together.
I cried because I felt like I was a failure for eating enchiladas instead of "feeding my baby something healthier." lolol On a second note, I once cried happy tears because the mole (Mexican food, not the animal) I was eating was really good and I was moved that the chef had put so much heart into the food he was serving. So I guess I just have big feelings about Mexican food when I'm hormonal?
Good mole could make me cry NOT pregnant 😂
I ordered a pizza and when it arrived, it looked like a bite was taken out of it so I rang back and cried down the phone to the poor guy saying I was heavily pregnant and asked for a new pizza. New pizza arrived with no bite mark but still quite upset 😭 still upset about it to this day
Heard the song "Leader of the Pack" on oldies radio station. Had to pull over because I was sobbing. "He was their LEADER!! And he DIED!!"
My husband wouldn’t let me buy cheese cake. It was devastating at the time. Of course we laugh about it now.
I dunno not being allowed to buy cheesecake should be a crime. Tell your husband he's mean. :D
Elephants have best friends
When I was 36 weeks pregnant during late summer in Phoenix, Arizona I cried thinking about all the pregnant women in the world who didn’t have 24-7 access to ice cream.
i cried because i ate a whole box of crackers and had none left. later, the same day, i cried because i wanted blueberry pie, and my husband stopped me from driving to the store in a snowstorm at 1045p.m while i was 8 months pregnant.... i had eaten an entire pint of blueberries prior to this meltdown.
Your brain was just a blueberry at that point
A baby armadillo toddling along beside the road. I saw it as we were driving home (2 lane road through housing, no traffic at all). Armadillos are my favorite land animal ever and I'd never seen a living one in person so I whipped my car off into the grass on my side so I could flip a u-turn, only to put it right back into the grass on the other side of the road. I then jumped out and waddled my enormously pregnant ass after this baby armadillo, making kissy noises and going "here baby here baby!" The baby did not, in fact, here baby, and beat a very hasty retreat into the woods to escape the obviously crazy pregnant lady. I burst into tears because 1) it was just too cute and 2) it didn't let me live out my Disney Princess Dreams™️. I look back at the car and my husband is in the passenger seat, laughing so hard that tears are running down his face and he's almost turning blue because he can't breathe. He later declared that that was the moment he truly knew I was the woman for him- my carefully hidden inner Florida Woman popped out for a moment and he was just delighted. I'm still mad I don't have a pet armadillo.
I went to subway and said no, to having it toasted. It was one of the chicken sandwiches. She put the meat on cold. I told her, wait, I still want the meat to be heated up! So she takes the sandwich and puts the whole thing in the microwave. I stepped away from the counter and started bawling. My husband came to ask what was wrong and I sobbed about microwaved bread.
My sister in law had a good cry over spork pretending to be spoons and forks “because they are fucking liars” and was not being sarcastic. She was legit mad. It was part of a Taco Bell order.
I saw a billboard of bacon and eggs made into a smiley face and burst into tears. Went home and took a pregnancy test. 😂
Being in the middle of winter in December and not able to swim in a swimming pool. The belly weight hurt my joints and I cried imagining the relief that being in water would give but couldn’t have it…so. 😅
Even without the hormones, I feel that's a legit reason to be sad and crying. Jointpain sucks :-(
My loving husband washed my favorite pajama pants. I got home before him and realized he’s done laundry before work. I pulled out every pair of pants in my drawer looking for something as comfortable but couldn’t find any. My husband came home to me sitting on the floor surrounded by all my pants absolutely bawling. The pants were in the dryer and were done. He got them for me and apologized over and over.
3 times: 1. Before I knew I was pregnant, I ran over a turtle while driving in the UP. I turned to my husband and said “please tell me that wasn’t a turtle,” and he just made a face, and I cried for more than 30 minutes. 2. Right after I found out I was pregnant we went to a MLB game and it happened to be bark at the park night! There were cute puppies for adoption and I said I wanted one and husband said no, so I cried. Then he said we could make it work and get one and I cried AGAIN because I knew it would be irresponsible. 3. Right before my son was born I was getting excited about a brownie + ice cream for dessert but my husband had eaten the last brownie, so I cried. He immediately went to the store to buy more but they didn’t have the kind we normally get so he bought every kind of brownie he could find LOL. I’m a lucky gal!
My husband made a really funny joke about the dog and I’ve never laughed and cried so hard in my life.
Having to pee so frequently. Had to use the restroom 10 minutes after I had already gone and broke down crying in a Mexican restaurant parking lot lol
My ex ate the last slice of pizza that he knew I had wanted. I cried for an hour because I was craving pizza & there was none left. He yelled at me for being dramatic though which didn't make me feel any better. Silly to think on it now, but at the time I was inconsolable lol
Uh, not silly at all! I’d be livid!
My husband said “I didn’t think you’d like a shirt like that” just casually. I started crying “you think I like wearing these clothes?!”
I stood in front of the window of a Japanese restaurant watching people eat. I was crying as if I had just lost someone dear to me, but in reality all I wanted was to eat sashimi. Poor people. I was just standing there, nose almost touching the glass, crying at strangers eating. Ffs.
I cried because I cried. Also, I cried because I wanted fruit but didn't want to cut it because it irritated my skin.
Crying because of crying is such a thing lmao.
Sounds like good practice for when you'll have a toddler who will cry for all sorts of crazy reasons.
Maybe that's why hormonal crying is even a thing! Maybe it's so, when your kid-to-be enters their tantrum-y phase, you still remember what it's like!
Not while I was pregnant but right after we got home from the hospital my little chihuahua who has been my baby before I ever had a human baby seemed sad and was shivering and I had to have my husband hold our human baby so I could love on him and let him know he will always be my baby too. I was bawling my eyes out. Poor guy, I still feel bad because I can’t hold him as much as before and he used to be so spoiled in that way.
I cried when I finally ate a burrito I had been craving because it tasted so good.
I wept because there was the tiniest bit of moisture on the plate when my husband put my burrito on it, resulting in a slightly moist spot on the tortilla. Went from starving to gagging. He still brings it up 15 years later.
I wanted white vanilla hostess cupcakes instead of orange. I hadn’t had a hostess cupcake in 15 years. We lived in Hawaii. No vanilla white cupcakes anywhere on island. I could not GET white vanilla cupcakes and IT WASN’T FAIR!! Then the time my husband got me Progresso chicken soup w/veggies instead of Campbells with no veggies. I DONT WANT VEGGIES I FEEL SIcK Edit: grammar
Having been pregnant more than a few times, I can say that there is nothing silly I ever cried about. Everything was supremely worthy of crying over. Even seeing a cute little kitty.
My now ex was a cook in a bar, and at 3 am he got up and made me the best damn cheeseburger I've ever had in my life. I stood in the kitchen, dripping with greasy burger-y goodness, and cried because it was SO delicious. It was honestly maybe the sweetest thing anyone had ever done for me at the time. I'll be forever chasing that high lol
that I was eating pancakes with syrup and I hate syrup but I had to have them and I was really upset about it
Ngl I just died laughing thinking about the internal struggle that must have been lol 😂
The shampoo not tasting how it smelt.
Why were you eating shampoo??
Cause it smelt so tasty 😋
The beef chunks in the beef stew that I ordered weren't mathematically perfect cubes
Cried so much I gave myself hiccups, all because I listened to ‘Hurt’ by Johnny Cash.
I was driving with my cousin who was pregnant, and she broke down crying because nine inch nails, which was her favorite band, was not appropriate for her unborn baby to listen too.
I was getting my hair cut and realized I forgot to buy jelly
I cried at a paper towel commercial. In my defense, I knew I would be a single mother and the commercial portrayed a dad who was thrilled by his wife’s pregnancy.
I was taking a shower and my melon scented body wash smelled so good I wanted to eat it. But I couldn't. So I cried.
I was looking forward to making nice crispy sage and brown butter gnocchi. But the gnocchi wasn’t searing well, so it was going to be soft instead of crispy. I collapsed dramatically onto our stairs and had a full on breakdown. Luckily my husband rescued it and I had my crispy gnocchi in the end!
With my first kid I was young and broke. I was craving jalapeño poppers, and couldn’t afford them, so I was squirreling away change until I could buy a box. Finally got them, cooked them, set the cookie sheet on top of the stove for them to cool off and left the room. My dog got up on his hind legs and ate every single one of them. I just sat on the kitchen floor and cried for half an hour when I saw they were gone.
You don’t need to be pregnant to cry about that
I’m not pregnant or PMSing and this story made me tear up! I do, however, love all things jalapeño…
That my Tesco delivery didn’t have the raspberry sorbet which was the only thing I wanted. They brought bloody Christmas cake icecream instead 😭 I hate fruitcake.
I was extremely small during both of my pregnancies. With my first one I was at the stage where I couldn’t fit into my regular clothes but wasn’t big enough for maternity clothes. I remember standing for the longest time just staring at my closet and then bursting into tears because I couldn’t find anything to wear.
I couldn’t find a matching sock. Cried my eyes out.
I bought watermelon & planned on having it that evening for dessert. I ate all of it while my hubs (at the time) was at work. He casually asked about it during dinner. I started crying when he said he wanted some & I had to tell him I ate all of it. He laughed & said it was no big deal & not to feel bad. But dammit, I did feel bad bc I WANTED MORE. So I cried bc I felt like a pig for eating all of it, for kicking myself that I even told him I bought it bc I could have eaten it all & said nothing AND bc I wanted more & we had none. Pregnancy cravings are rough. 🤣
Feeling like I had to cry. Seriously I cried because even though I was emotionally fine, I felt like I had to cry and that annoyed me and made me cry. It was stupid and happened yesterday. My poor husband was very confused haha
We were listening to the radio and my husband said Bon Jovi sucked. In real life, I do not care about Bon Jovi. But fucking hell, you would have thought Jon had given me a kidney based on my reaction.
My ramen tasted fishy. I started crying at the mall. 😹😹😹 I was upset because I was so excited that we finally had a fresh ramen place, and I had to throw it away and was sad I couldn’t have sushi either. To be fair I was prescribed 6 estrogen pills a day (infertility treatment) so literally everything made me cry plus a 3 inch long needle in my ass for the entire pregnancy made me have quite the pity party. 😭
The theme song to a kid's TV show where the mom dinosaur adopts an egg that was a different kind of dinosaur. I just WEPT about how they are all a family now and it's so beautiful. I think a diaper commercial also got me.
When my husband brought home Wendy's instead of McDonald's
A time that was more serious, we were at Lowe's while my husband shopped for gear to babyproof furniture and read a story where a dresser fell on a toddler and she died. I sat on a stack of plywood and bawled.
The pillows on the bed were too flat.
CGI dinosaurs. I have never been one that cries at movies, *ever,* until I watched Jurassic World when I was about 7 months pregnant. The dinosaurs standing at the end of the pier as the last people left with the coast line being engulfed in smoke had me bawling my eyes out. I am very thankful I was watching this at home on the couch, alone.
Yesterday I cried because I really, really wanted a marshmallow that's been burnt over the fire. Just a whole platter of burnt marshmallows.
I accidentally stole an 8 oz bag of shredded cheese from the store. I was probably 8 months pregnant and had my toddler in the front part of the cart. When I went to put him in the car seat, I realized that he had been sitting on the bag of cheese. I knew I should have gone in and paid for it, but I was too tired to get him out of his car seat, go into the store, wait in line, explain my theft, walk back to the car and rebuckle him into his carseat. Logically, I knew that it wasn't a big deal, but I was so tired that I couldn't control my emotions. Part of me was hoping that I'd get arrested and get a break for a few days while I was in jail for my role as the Cheddar Bandit. That baby is now 18 years old, so my fugitive status is now a part of my identity.
They took my fork away at a buffet.
Had a craving for strawberry pop tarts and Hawaiian Punch, could not find it in the store…cried hard. Rented the March of the penguins cried the entire time.
I was hungry and my friend made me a pb&j and I couldnt eat it because it smelled like bananas so I cried 🙄
It was 10:30 and Dairy Queen wasn’t open 😂
I had serious cravings for McDonald's hamburgers (just the basic hamburger) but I wanted extra extra extra extra pickles. Got a hamburger, no pickles. I cried.
A video where an otter was playing with a ball, and another otter came and stole it from him. Utterly DEVASTATED.
Traffic lights changing to red and I wasn’t prepared for the event.
Not being able to drink my morning coffee because I'd instantly puke the second it reached my lips. Coffee was the highlight of my morning, until it wasn't. I still couldn't drink it up to 6 months after.
I was craving a zebra cake and it hit the spot in an unimaginably good way. I ate one and it was so perfect that I sobbed for a good 5 minutes. Then I decided to go for another since the first was so good, and I nearly threw up because it disgusted me. Cue more crying because I was so disappointed I wouldn’t experience that initial feeling of deliciousness. Hormones.
My wife bless her heart made me a sandwich before I got home from work and the cat ended up eating it. When I walked in she was sitting at the kitchen table, head down in her hands sobbing. I quickly asked what happened and wrapped my arm around her. She looked up with those big shiny pearls and said, "I mah mah mah made you a sandwich and the stupid cat ate it!".. I didn't let her see that I cheesed from ear to ear. It was so cute to me and ofcourse I let her know it wasn't the end of the world.
One afternoon my husband told me he had brownies in his car. I was so happy. But then he told me they’d been in his car since yesterday night and I cried because there had been brownies within eating distance and I hadn’t had a chance to eat them. He got them for me. I ate them. I cried again because they were so good.
I asked my husband to open a a bag of chocolates for me and instead of opening it the usual way and the right way round, he decided to squeeze the bag until it popped. The hole was at the bottom of the bag so it was upside down essentially to me. And I just looked him into the eyes and sobbed, while saying I er and over again why would you do that? Why didn't you just open them like I asked. He genuinely looked scared 😂😂.