I agree, they are always tears for themselves: tears that they are losing power, tears that they are not being adored, tears of how it will look for them in public, tears for how their plan hasn’t worked out…
It is never tears of worry and concern for you or your kids.
They are also capable of crocodile tears. I recall a scene now which I can see as clear as anything was him forcing crocodile tears. He had been horrible, and I had got upset, and as per usual he had walked out to scare me. I’d begged him to come back, and he had.
He knew he’d been awful though, so needed to play the victim rather than apologise. So he looked right up at me and squeezed his eyes as hard as he could, so that a tear came out, and he put his face as near to mine as possible as if to say ‘look, I’m crying- look what you’ve done.’
They should be on the stage.