Anchorman: a real tear-jerker
" 'They' say that a pregnant woman is more emotional, more irrational, and more irritable. The increased hormones pregnant women have cause nasty reactions: progesterone brings about those PMS-like feelings including some depression and fatigue; prolactin also promotes mild depression and fatigue; and estrogen, the mother of all pregnancy hormones causes that oh-so-attractive irritability and anxiety from which pregnant women are known to suffer.
I decided I would not fall prey to weepy feelings or outbursts of anger caused by common, day-to-day trivialities. It's true, touching commercials and movie scenes had been making me feel a little more tender hearted than usual, but I would not let myself cry. I knew those feelings were just from the pregnancy, and I could beat them! If I was unhappy with the status of the dishes by the sink, I knew blowing-up wouldn't solve the problem.
'Push, Clare,' I'd tell myself. 'Push those pregnancy-induced-emotional-reactions down and act reasonable.'
And I did, until one seemingly normal Saturday evening a few weeks ago. Ross and I put in the movie Anchorman. We began by watching the out-takes, bloopers, and audition clips included in the special features available on the DVD. We were primed for slap-stick, sophomoric comedy. We chuckled. We laughed. We laughed so hard we had tears in our eyes. We laughed so hard that suddenly my ability to suppress was no longer there. We laughed so hard that what came out of me next caused Ross to rush to my side, wrap his arms around me and hold me close.
Sob, sob, sob! The dam had opened and there was absolutely no stopping it. I was crying, full-fledged pregnant-woman crying. I just had to let it happen. Ross just had to stare at me in amazement until I could catch my breath to answer his, "Honey, what's wrong?"
When the flood subsided to a trickle of tears I replied, "That's what I get for fighting it for five months! I told you this would happen," (as if he hadn't believed me). Then we laughed and chalked it up to one of those stories that will live in our family's history. That time Clare, pregnant with our first child, sobbed over Anchorman out-takes."
--Clare, 8/29/05
I decided I would not fall prey to weepy feelings or outbursts of anger caused by common, day-to-day trivialities. It's true, touching commercials and movie scenes had been making me feel a little more tender hearted than usual, but I would not let myself cry. I knew those feelings were just from the pregnancy, and I could beat them! If I was unhappy with the status of the dishes by the sink, I knew blowing-up wouldn't solve the problem.
'Push, Clare,' I'd tell myself. 'Push those pregnancy-induced-emotional-reactions down and act reasonable.'
And I did, until one seemingly normal Saturday evening a few weeks ago. Ross and I put in the movie Anchorman. We began by watching the out-takes, bloopers, and audition clips included in the special features available on the DVD. We were primed for slap-stick, sophomoric comedy. We chuckled. We laughed. We laughed so hard we had tears in our eyes. We laughed so hard that suddenly my ability to suppress was no longer there. We laughed so hard that what came out of me next caused Ross to rush to my side, wrap his arms around me and hold me close.
Sob, sob, sob! The dam had opened and there was absolutely no stopping it. I was crying, full-fledged pregnant-woman crying. I just had to let it happen. Ross just had to stare at me in amazement until I could catch my breath to answer his, "Honey, what's wrong?"
When the flood subsided to a trickle of tears I replied, "That's what I get for fighting it for five months! I told you this would happen," (as if he hadn't believed me). Then we laughed and chalked it up to one of those stories that will live in our family's history. That time Clare, pregnant with our first child, sobbed over Anchorman out-takes."
--Clare, 8/29/05
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