Law Enforcement Mom: I can’t. I have to keep it together for everyone else on earth. The tears, every last damned one of them, have literally evaporated from my body. Even seeing senselessly dead mangled, stabbed, shot people can’t make me produce a single teardrop. But, it’s okay, because I pushed all my anger and sorrow waaaay down deep, till it bubbled up as PTSD. Now mommy goes to the talking doctor.
Child: Mom, why don’t you ever cry?
Law Enforcement Mom: I can’t. I have to keep it together for everyone else on earth. The tears, every last damned one of them, have literally evaporated from my body. Even seeing senselessly dead mangled, stabbed, shot people can’t make me produce a single teardrop. But, it’s okay, because I pushed all my anger and sorrow waaaay down deep, till it bubbled up as PTSD. Now mommy goes to the talking doctor.