Research suggests the reason your mother cries when she’s happy for you and your father goes quiet when he’s proud of you isn’t a generational difference — it’s that the emotion of watching the person you made succeed at the thing you were afraid they’d fail at overwhelms the two systems differently, and both the tears and the silence are the sound of a nervous system that cares more than the body knows how to express
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