First Sign of Emotions Changing

[Aly Cat]

Ok, so I NEVER cry while watching movies....like ever. Well, there was this one time while watching The Green Mile, but that was a fluke! Anyways, Im sitting here watching the movie Letters to Juliette and Im getting all emotional! WTH! Im getting all tearing-eyed over mushy love story stuff! Now, not to discredit mushy love story stuff. I do and have always enjoyed watching chick flicks because I do enjoy the stories and the romance. But Ive never felt the emotion like this before. Wow...just wow. Thats all I can say. I guess I better get used to that. These hormones....whew!

[arbon]

I went through some periods when I was very emotional the first couple years on hrt. Sometimes it just let loose. The weirdest moment was when I had to leave the room because I could not stop crying, we were watching one of the transformer movies. My daughter thought I was loosing my mind.

[Angela Campbell]

Just wait until you cry from a commercial for star trek or something silly. It is like being free or waking up.

[I Am Paula]

Don't forget- Hallmark cards, puppies, babies (oh my God I suddenly love babies)... Oh, there's so many good things to cry about.

[donnalee]

I seem to always cry at movies (much more lately, why IDK), but they have to be really awful. The most puerile, sentimental crap ever to come off a hack's typewriter, too bad to qualify for a B movie, somewhere around X, Y, or Z, or even worse something "made for TV" (i.e. too bad to even go straight to video). It's horribly embarrassing (even whenI'm alone), does not reflect my personal taste at all, but I'm helpless against it. I've done it as far back as I can remember, but seems to get worse the older I get.

[celeste26]

That is such a cliche "boys don't cry," and society has kept it up for ages but there is no real basis for it. It was BS ages ago and now we all are amazed when suddenly we begin to cry. It is a normal human function for everyone male and female.

[becky77]

Cliche maybe, but I was made to feel it was a sign of weakness. I cry the same as I always did in movies. However, a couple of weeks ago after a bad day, I opened my shopping to find the yogurt had burst over everything. I just burst into tears, never cried at something like that before the hormones!

[I Am Paula]

Ironically, I was having a low esteem day, cause I had to let my facial hair grow out the day before electro, and I felt terrible. I was in Sephora, and a SA that I know told me I looked beautiful. I burst out crying. For a compliment!

[MatildaJ.]

When I was pregnant I used to cry at phone company commercials ...it didn't feel empowering; more like the little alien inside me was jerking my chain.

[JohnH]

I don't blow up at things as much as I did, but for some reason I still don't cry. I'll tell you if I found yoghurt burst all over the rest of my groceries I would be cursing up a storm. However, life is lot more bearable for my wife since I don't fly off the handle so much.

I have been on M2F HRT for over two years.

Johanna

[Ann Louise]

I cry over how happy I am, how much I love my life now, for my friends, even my kitty and how innocent cute she is (I didn't even really like cats before)! It can sneak up on me, but it's usually in the evening or the middle of the night. I've stationed a box of tissues in every room in the house.

I love this new part of my emotional landscape, too. :-)

[Leah Lynn]

I cried when Old Yeller died, but I was fairly young then. Next movie that evoked strong emotions was "We Were Soldiers". First combat scene, and I was back in 'Nam, started crying and had to leave the theater. Not another tear for years caused by celluloid. Until hrt. Last month I cried watching "Brokeback Mountain". Oh, the tears can flow easily now watching almost anything, or listening to a sad love song.

Hugs,

Leah

[Janice Ashton]

I often end up in tears enjoying my favourite RomComs and other films that strike a cord with me. Only today I enjoyed a weepy film seems it's becoming the norm now when not so much in the past prior to starting hormones....

[Dianne S]

I'm not even on hormones or T-blocker yet, but I cried after reading Sex and Other Changes (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sex-Other-Changes-David-Nobbs/dp/0099421658) by David Nobbs. It's the story of a man who transitions to being a woman and his wife who transitions to being a man. The book is a comedy, but it's very sensitively written and extremely poignant. I could not believe how deeply it touched me.