Recently, I’ve had a kidney stone and several gallbladder stones. Easily the most painful things I’ve ever experienced (moaning in pain on the bathroom floor) and I felt like I wanted to cry each time but never did. Do adult men ever cry from only physical pain? At what point does that end? Why does it end? Weird question, but this surprised me and now I’m curious. ETA: in case I didn’t make sense, it’s not that I forced myself not to cry (I had no issue dropping my “man-card” during the kidney stone), it’s that I don’t think I could’ve cried even if I wanted to. Cussing, moaning, yelling, grunting sure; but not crying. It’s like at some point in my life, the brain stops crying from physical pain (but I know I still cry from emotional pain which is interesting). Also, the pain from gallbladder stones was so bad it made me vomit (despite not being nauseous) which had never happened to me before. Yet I still didn’t cry tears. submitted by /u/thegreatcon2000
Originally posted by u/thegreatcon2000 on r/AskMen