Did you ever see your mum cry other than at the death of someone.

As a child I never saw my mum cry, but latterly, yes.
The poor soul had plenty to cry about.

At the age of 3 in 1946 I remember clinging onto my disabled mother’s skirt as she sobbed whilst getting my father’s toiletries out of the bathroom cabinet. He was ditching my mother, my brother and I to go off with his mistress. He never returned and as a consequence we had a poverty stricken existence. I curse that man for his utter selfishness. There, I’ve got it off my chest.

That must be cathartic.
Your poor mum.

Only once I saw my mother crying. She said she ‘could go’ knowing I was alright. She suffered ill health for many years. My husband fetched my parents (150 miles away) to come and see our first house. My mother said she ‘could go’ (expecting her death anytime in the near future) seeing our house she foresaw that I (an only child) had a better future, she had lived in Council property all her life.

No never, not even when dad died. I reached out to her in the funeral car to be told brusquely, “I’m all right”. Not a single tear, unlike my sister & myself.
As a family, on my mother’s side, crying was really frowned upon, you had to keep a stiff upper lip & keep up appearances.
The first experience of bereavement for my sister & myself was my grandad (or pap as we said in Northampton), I was 19, my sister 14. Sister was crying after the funeral, really inconsolable, mum reprimanded her. Luckily dad had a different attitude, told my sister that it was OK to cry & that he had cried in private.
Very different attitudes in those days from some people.

I was very ill just before my twenty-first birthday and admitted to hospital rather late in the day. My parents were told that I had no more than a 25% chance of survival. (No one told me.) I came through surgery and was treated for pleurisy and pneumonia, then it all went pear-shaped again and I had many more hours of surgery and was back in ICU. Both my mother and my father cried when they thought I was asleep.

My mum never cried, - I cry at anything and everything. ?