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Scenario

How family gallows humor masks unresolved conflicts

My family makes these cutting jokes about each other's life choices at every gathering, and we call it 'just being honest,' but I think we're actually being cruel and hiding behind humor instead of having real conversations about our disappointments.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Your family's culture of 'honest' humor is avoiding the actual honesty that intimate relationships require.

Your guide for this
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Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Gallows humor?”

Peri

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