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[quote=Anonymous]Oh, OP. Yeah, you are handling it wrong. But hey, you know that, so you'll handle it differently now. First, realize she can't control the tears. They are a physiological response. I am a hair trigger crier, too, and I can't do anything to stop it, though there are a few things I can do to make it less obvious I've teared up, like tipping my head back so the tears flow back into my sinuses. But she can learn those things later. I wouldn't even mention the tears at all...consider them the same as sweat. It just happens.

I would say that its possible that she is either anxious or a perfectionist, but nothing you have said makes it sound like she is pathologically so. I have cried when other people are being yelled at, not because of empathy in a deep emotional sense, but because my body reacts as if I were being yelled at. Its almost lizard brain stuff.

Give her kindness and tenderness, OP. Sounds like she gives you those things. Can you give them back to her, too?[/quote]

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