Hi Hangingon1, am sorry to hear about your and your wife's troubles. It really is a most difficult time for both of you to deal with. I have experienced a bit of what I believed to be emotional liability, mainly in the early days, mainly as laughter. Initially I had no idea what was going on and it would get well and truly away from me but once I understood I have been pretty successful at controlling the laughter to great extent, though shear will. What I often think is a bit overlooked however is how much emotion and sadness well and truly is part and parcel of ASL totally outside the emotional liability realm. I still have spells where it would seem that I am experiencing random emotional liability with what are extremal hard and often un-controllable moments of sadness and crying. However they are almost always associated with what I am thinking about at the time. I do pretty well and try really hard to not break down at difficult moments, for my family's sake but sometimes I just can't do it. Something I see makes me think of something that makes me so profoundly sad that I just can't help but get upset. I know this is hard on them as it is on you with your wife. What helps me most is not being asked "what is wrong" because I simply can't tell them at that time. What I found helps me most is a hug, no words and if I am in a situation where the crying is really inappropriate help to extract myself from the situation until I can gain control. All the best to you and your wife.