We were on her trampoline and we were messing around with her little sister yk just playing around. We started throwing this inflatable ball thing around and when my girl threw it I sort of like deflected it but I ended up smacking it too hard and hit her leg and made a loud noise. Her face instantly showed that it shocked or scared her and after like 2 minutes of me apologising she went inside. I was on the trampoline alone, with her parents staring at me trying not to break down because I felt like shit for hurting her. She came back down and sat down and told me that it was getting close to my time to go and as soon as we got to her room, I just burst into tears and kept saying I’m sorry and hugged her. She comforted me and told me that I didn’t hurt her and that she’s okay but I felt so bad, I’d never want to harm her. I love her so much and I’m glad she’s okay, just felt like I needed to say this sorry for the long paragraph
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she’s got a good one. it’s ok to cry.
Get a grip. It was an accident and she was fine.
life will eat you up and spit you out, i’m not trying to be mean but you need to toughen up a little. you didn’t intentionally hurt her and getting a ball kicked against your leg is not a traumatic injury to endure. apologizing once is sufficient, i promise you that much. crying is a normal human reaction, all genders cry. but you also need to be able to assess situations properly and whether or not your emotions are fitting. just my two cents
You made a mistake and apologized. No one is going to the hospital. Relax.
No worries, be grateful you were given a warning before anyone was hurt. This was a blessing,
aww sweet pea. never ever change that part of yourself, no matter what. she probably felt so honored not only that you cried in front of her, but that it was over not wanting to hurt her. as someone with perpetually “large” emotions, i know the curse that it can be. but this is why it’s a good thing.
It’s a beautiful thing that you care so much. Ignore others telling you to toughen up, it doesn’t matter what happened or what justification there was to cry. You felt bad, you cried, I don’t want to assume your gender but you’re a good one and we need more like you.
Glad to hear she was ok. Must have really scared you to think you might have hurt her. Adrenaline boosts can do crazy stuff to our emotions, especially when there not anything to be done. Our body is like “ok we are all gassed up to fight or flight” and our brain goes “well we don’t need to do either of those so i guess let’s freak out”
Honestly bro, this is more masculine than holding your feelings in. She got a good one
A lot of the comments suggesting OPs emotions are an overreaction are being downvoted but I honestly don’t think they’re wrong.
I think it’s because OPs a bloke and people are assuming sexism but this post screams emotional instability. I want to note, it is okay for men to cry, nothing wrong with that at all.
I just find this reaction to something so insignificant concerning.
I was like that when I was younger, having really over the top emotional reactions to really small things, turns out I had a heap of mental health issues and needed treatment.
I’m not trying to shit on OP but this is concerning and if this type of overreaction to small things is normal for him maybe he shld consider speaking to a professional to learn how to emotionally regulate better.
I also just want to consider the GFs perspective for a moment. Her bf injured her (mildly), she goes inside to either deal with the injury or probably just sit down cause it hurts, instead of going in to comfort her and help OP decides to sit out on the trampoline alone and wallow in his own self pity, OP doesn’t go inside until GF comes and tells him he has to leave soon, and then instead of getting to enjoys her last few mins of quality time with her BF (which they would’ve got more of if he didn’t decide to wallow in his own self pity), SHE (the one who was injured) has to comfort HIM because he basically had a meltdown over accidentally deflecting a ball to her.
Does that not seem a bit unfair?