When you imagine havingsexthat you’re totally into, crying probably isn’t part of the picture.
Here, 7 women show as much by sharing the reasons they’ve cried during sex.
Sometimes, you’ve just got to let it out.
“I was havinganal sexwith my boyfriend of two years.
A few minutes in, I burst into tears, and not from pain.
It was a strange feeling, and I was shocked by my own tears.
My boyfriend immediately wrapped me in his arms and asked if I was OK.
I said yes and started laughing, so he joined in.
I was thinking about him with the other woman and the qualities she had that I didn’t.
We broke up about a week after that incident.
The crying made me realize this guy hurt me to my core.
I’d wondered throughout our year-long courtship whether or not he really cared for me.
At the moment I started crying, I said to myself, ‘Nope he doesn’t.'”
Talisha H., 28
“I’ve only cried once during sex.
But it also meant I’d slept with almost my entire group of guy friends in a two-year period.
I had no idea he had doubts, and I started uncontrollably sobbing in the middle of the meeting.
I knew we weren’t going to be together, and I loved him so much.
At some point, I stopped crying, and we finished having sex.
It’s OK now, though.
I’m so not attracted to him, I’d rather get intimate with a comforter.”
Monica T., 25
“I suffer fromvaginismus, a condition where penetrative intercourse is painful.
I was having sex with my boyfriend and experiencing pain and discomfort when I started crying.
While my partner was experiencing those very feelings, I was simultaneously conflicted, in pain, and unhappy.
I couldn’t help killing the mood with some tears.
This, to me, felt most intimate of all.”
We did everything we used to do, but we knew it would be the last time.
I broke up into tears.
It was pretty obvious from my sideI have always been touchy with emotional stuff.
He asked me for the reason behind my tears, but I was silent.
He asked again, and I kept on with my closed lips.
He then understood my silence and broke into tears himself."
I tried to keep it subtle, but he realized.
Then we continued on having amazing sex.
Kimberly C.
Quotes have been edited for length and clarity.
