I always end up with kleenex. I think sometimes I grab it; other times he hands it to me (I don't remember for sure; how I get the kleenex is really not important to me).

He isn't one to try to comfort me. I'm glad for that. I suspect it would have the effect of causing me to stop crying, and as much as I hate crying, if I'm doing it, I probably need to.

It's more a matter of him just being there while I cry. Sometimes he says nothing. More often he asks me what the tears are about and gets me to talk about whatever it is that caused that reaction if it isn't obvious.

I don't think it is nearly as big a deal to therapists for the most part as it is to us. I suspect they see a lot of tears. For them it isn't about the tears so much as it is about what is behind the tears.