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When your partner makes hurtful jokes and dismisses your feelings about them

My boyfriend makes jokes about my weight in front of other people and when I tell him it hurts he says I'm too sensitive

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Cruelty hides behind humor when the wounded are told their pain is oversensitivity rather than natural response to being diminished.

Ideas that help explain it
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