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When your partner makes hurtful jokes and calls it playing

My boyfriend makes jokes about my weight and says he is just playing but it makes me feel horrible about myself

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Cruelty disguised as humor creates a double wound where the initial pain is compounded by the invalidation of having it dismissed as oversensitivity.

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