Why Do Humans Cry? An Evolutionary Biologist Explains Its True Purpose

The people who seem to have endless patience with difficult family members aren’t necessarily more forgiving. Many of them long ago concluded that the emotional cost of asking for change was higher than the cost of absorbing the behavior, and they’ve been paying the cheaper price for so long they forgot there was ever a choice.

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Psychology says the reason so many people crash emotionally in their early 60s isn’t retirement or aging — it’s the first time in decades they’ve had enough silence to hear their own thoughts and they don’t recognize the person thinking them

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Psychology says adult children don’t grieve their aging parents all at once — they grieve them in a thousand tiny deaths, like the first time your mother forgets she told you the same story twice, or the afternoon you notice your father’s hands shaking when he signs his name

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People who laugh before they finish telling a painful story aren’t handling it well. They’re releasing the listener from having to respond to it seriously, which is a skill they learned from people who couldn’t.

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