I grew up hearing the "Brave young men don't cry" mantra, and if I ever did happen to cry over anything other than physical pain I was told to stop or I would be given something (some physical pain) to actually cry about. However, crying over an emotion is something I believe I would have seldom ever done anyway, and today there are usually few tears available even when "having a good cry" is something I would actually like to be able do. I do avoid certain things such as pictures of my grandchildren (900 miles away) or of my daughters when they were young, however, because even the tears that do sometimes come never resolve the tremendous emotional upheaval. So, I would say it is fine for me to cry as much or as little as I wish whenever I even can and just as fine to look for ways to simply subvert certain upheavals.