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Scenario

How siblings navigate humor and joking after family loss or trauma

My brother and I have been making the same type of inside jokes since we were kids, but after our mom's death last year, the humor feels inappropriate and we both go quiet when we start to slip into our old comedic rhythm. We're grieving differently and I don't know if we're supposed to let ourselves laugh together again or if it means we're not taking our loss seriously enough.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Grief has complicated a sibling's natural comedic bond, leaving them uncertain whether their shared humor is healing or disrespectful to their loss.

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Nas
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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Jokes and their structure?”

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