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Why does anyone cry? Dementia may change people but emotions still exists. Getting older, even without dementia brings about tears for some.

Some people don’t have deep emotions and don’t cry. It may be that they don’t show their emotions. Those people who do show emotions will cry.

My husband’s paternal grandfather was a sweetheart but unfortunately he couldn’t stand up to his domineering wife. His wife did not like my MIL. She was jealous of her. She hated losing her son to another woman. Some mothers are like that.

She was a mean woman and refused to be around my MIL, who was a doll and his grandmother didn’t even change after her grandchildren were born. So sad. My husband did not know his paternal grandparents.

Well, after my husband’s grandmother died we invited his grandfather to a big Italian dinner at one of our favorite Italian restaurants and he looked around and all of us and broke down and cried.

He was crying because he was so glad to finally be all with us. It was a release. He felt free to cry. We hugged him. I started crying too. I was happy that he was away from his miserable wife and free to be with his grandchildren, even if they were all grown up then. He loved my MIL but he was trapped in the middle. His wife insisted that he not speak to my MIL.

I felt horrible that he had to live with a miserable woman all of his life. It wasn’t common to divorce then, especially for devout Italian Catholics.
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Dementia can effect areas of the brain that control emotions. Crying and sadness are very common.
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I think partly it is because they have a moment of clarity... and realize what they have lost.

sometimes, they are reliving a trauma from many years ago.

sometimes it is just confusion about the facts.... my Mom started out helping me pick through the house and setting up a garage sale. She sat at the table and even handled the cash.... but, weeks later was crying over all the things Dad took from her and gave away (my Dad died almost a year before). Confusion. A week or two after that she was crying because he wouldn’t move back home.
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