things that bring tears to your eyes.

So sorry to hear about your mum Harris27 - some for you x

Watching my poor mum lying there in a home slowly dying of Alzheimer's breaks my heart weekly. She is so frail and doesn't resemble the lady I knew. Sad. Dreading Mother's Day as she's getting nearer.

i cry when i think of my dog that died....sounds crazy but after being savagely attacked by a dog many years ago (im still covered in scars aged 50)this dog came into our lives about 10 years later and restored all my faith in dogs and taught me to understand their quirks and noises. She died very unexpectedly in 2012 and i was devastated. But i now have dogs...yep plural..because of her

A song that has always made me cry, even when I was a child - and to this day I don't know why it brings tears, is 'Bye. bye, Blackbird'.

Maybe it's that line, 'No one here can love or understand me...'
Such a lonely sentiment and very close to my own thoughts at the time.

You don't here it nowadays.

We never made a lot of fuss about Mother's Day in my family. Birthdays, Christmas and wedding anniversaries were celebrated vigorously with feasts, festivities and presents galore. Of course we acknowledged Mother's Day with chocolates and flowers and, once I was an independent adult, a family lunch. So it came as a great surprise to me that after my mother died, her birthday, her death day, her wedding anniversary were days that were full of thoughts and memories for me, but Mother's Day was the one when I broke my heart. Maybe that started because my only daughter lived the other side of the world – but then she lovingly contacted me on New Zealand's Mother's Day in May. Maybe it was just the title of the day and, somehow it gives we adults justification to grieve again. I don't do it on Father's Day which has always seemed a bit Hallmark Cards, but I do remember and treasure the memories of our time together and the awfulness of his death exactly five months after my wedding day.

The film "Shadowlands" causes me to cry every time I watch it.

jillyRosa - I too agree about animals and can't watch any programmes dealing with animal neglect. Would love to watch Paul O'Grady's Battersea Dog's Home programme but know that I would cry all the way through it. I'm getting sad just thinking about it.

dollyJo

No words xxxxxx

Slipping they my fingers by ABBA. We thought dd might die in 2012 after a terrible event. It was 50/50, thankfully she eventually survived. Cannot under any circumstances hear this song without weeping.

My mum is welsh and has altzimers but she forgot the anthem on Saturday and that made me cry. She forgot she was welsh! Heartbreaking really.

jillyRosa totally agree about animals too.

I cry at many things too. Some of these posts here are so poignant ?? to you all.

I read once that when an old person dies a library burns to the ground.

My mum died last year a few days before Mother’s Day in fact, so this will be no. 2 without her. So many times I’ve wanted to ask her something.
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I thought I’d read The Peppermint Pig (Nina Bawden) to my grandchildren. I last read it to my own children about 35 years ago so I read it again.
Oh no, how I cried! I shan’t be able to read it aloud without breaking down and getting laughed at!

dollyjo reading your did bring tears to my eyes.

I cry if I hear an animal has been cruelly treated. With a human they can at least complain but poor animals just have to put up with ill treatment

It would have been my mums birthday today, always a hard day even after nearly 20 years. I always buy flowers and make a special cake.

Oh dollyjo that is terrible.

dollyjo

I cry when I hear Matt Munro singing 'Softly as I leave you.'
My Mum left my 23 months old brother in his cot and went downstairs to take her own life. I can just imagine how she felt walking away from him. I cry especially at the words, 'Please don't go.' I was 8yrs old at the time and I am now in my 70's but it still hurts.

I often cry when I think I have never been around when my parents died, they did so much for me and I wasnt there for them. I live far away in another country, and just didnt get to them in time.They were not alone, they had a very good friend with them in the end, but not their Daughter.

For anyone who loves brass/military band music.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKODiOj7Pbs&list=RDJpeSjt2gVog&index=2

DD2 takes after me. She can't get through Sunset without crying either.

Brass bands do it for me too, there is just something about the sound that hits the spot marked X. Was at a concert once where a solo trombonist played the old Frank Sinatra song "All The Way", it was utterly spellbinding and tearjerking.

I cried today; my DH is in hospital at the moment (always worrying) and he's been moved to the same ward that my mum died in 15 years ago. On my way out I suddenly burst into tears, which was somewhat embarrassing!

Brass bands, bagpipes, anything to do with child or animal cruelty, Christmas carols, nativity plays, certain songs from my teenage years (especially Stevie Wonder's My Cherie Amour, Otis Redding's Sitting on the Dock of the Bay, Don McLean's Vincent and strangely Sunny by Bobby Hebb, which is a happy song, but sets me off!) watching toddlers play, and for some reason watching traffic slow down and move over for ambulances has me absolutely sobbing!

Certain songs that remind me of happy - or sad - times always reduce me to tears. They can immediately conjure up those long ago moments. And Welsh male voice choirs never fail to bring the tears on.

My lovely intelligent feisty mother has had dementia for three years now...I miss my interesting conversations with her so much.

She was also ‘the keeper of the family flame’. She had so many family stories to tell, and kept everyone united..she would be pleased to know my siblings and I are quite close.

I think she got dementia after struggling on her own for five years after my father died. She never came to terms with his death and her grief just got worse and worse.
I just want her to go and be with him.

Mother’s Day is very painful for me.

Maine your sister will never be as close to your GC as you are because you share more of a gene pool with them and that makes a lot of difference.

Tears came to my eyes yesterday when the Welsh National Anthem was sung at the rugby