Dealing with over-emotional people

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One thing that I have noticed is that I don't deal very well with extreme emotions and over-emotional people. My step-dad and my dad are both over-emotional types, I never know how to react so I just go completely numb. Any recommendations on dealing with that kind of person? They both take it as a way of me pushing them away. It's kind of awkward when you have a 6ft odd grown man blubbing on your shoulders when you are almost a foot shorter than them. I just don't get it

I don't get it either, but here is something I have finally figured out: Over-emotional people can't even hear you unless what you say is said emotionally.

I tend to want to distance myself, if someone is over emotional. My adult daughter gets emotional on the phone, sometimes. If it is negative emotion being directed at me, I tend to hang up rather than allow her to shout and scream in my ear. I always warn her first.

I avoid such people as much as possible. and I agree that reasoning with them is pointless, it's just best to avoid them and talk some sense to them once they get the heart rate back to normal.

This is the most awkward experience ever. Luckily, I have never been alone in a room with an emotional person, so I just leave them to the care of whichever person I'm with who is capable of empathy and sidle out of the room.

I was once trapped in a car with my ex sister-in-law, while she screamed at me about something trivial. It was like drowning...

I don't really know how to deal with irrational people like that.

I usually just quickly leave the room and leave them wallowing in their own emotions until they are finally able to comprehend logic and reason.

In the car, I would find a place to pull-over and get out! A store is ideal.

actually, being not-emotional works better, at least from my experience. they usually go wtf and sometimes even start to think. and if you react like they expected they just gonna continue what they're doing.

Unfortunately, she was driving! I had to just breathe deeply and not respond. I also made sure not to visit her again.

A funny incident; I was visiting my brother, and my other sister-in-law was getting emotional over something. She and my niece started quarreling, and I started singing a silly song that was part of an advertisement. She then gave up, and left the room.