How much emotion do you show in front of your children?

Obviously it depends on their age and maturity levels, but I'm curious about how other parents handle this, especially since I feel like this was a big problem in my own childhood. I had parents with serious emotional issues, and I vividly remember my terror as a child when one of them would break down sobbing in front of me (this happened I would guess around once a week).Now that I'm a parent myself (I have a 7 month daughter), I've realized that I don't know how to navigate this at all, and am wondering if I'm overcompensating. I'm pretty good at hiding emotion or putting it aside until later (a skill that comes in handy when your own parents are trainwrecks!), and so even though I've been going through a rough patch for the past couple of months I've been able to stay happy and engaged whenever I'm caring for my daughter. The main exception was yesterday, when I told my partner that I wanted to talk later about something that was getting me down, because I didn't want to cry in front of the baby. He said he didn't think that it was a problem to sometimes cry in front of her, and encouraged me to talk right then and there. I did, and cried quite a bit. She seemed kind of uncertain about what was going on (we were all eating at the dinner table, and kept feeding her while talking), and a little distressed. We gave her lots of hugs after and told her "Mommy is feeling a little sad right now," and I smiled at her a bunch, but I've been feeling guilty about being so emotionally raw in front of her and don't know that I would do this again.Tl;dr I don't know if it's ok to cry in front of children, and if so what I should tell them. via /r/Parenting http://ift.tt/2qteefp