Our friend group has been getting together for years and we all share this running joke about how messed up our families are, but I'm starting to realize that the constant sarcasm is keeping us from ever actually talking about what that damage means or how we're trying to heal from it. We've made trauma into entertainment and I think it's making us lonelier.
More people experience this than they realize.
People are using shared jokes about their wounds to maintain connection while preventing the honest examination that might actually heal them.
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