I think this is so interesting because I read a lot into my T's response to me crying. It's never really the same reaction. Generally, he just sits there and listens. I usually have to get up and grab tissues for myself. In the beginning, he seemed more sympathetic; gesturing towards the tissues or saying, "there are tissues on the table" etc, but I'm a cryer (for better or worse) and I think he has become desensitized to me. Once, very recently, when I cried about something he also went through / had experience going through, he actually got up from his chair and walked over and handed me the tissue box...I think that's the greatest display of compassion and love I've ever gotten from him...wish it would happen again haha.