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Scenario

When family humor becomes competitive and hurtful

Our family dinner conversations have become a competition over who can deliver the best one-liner, and my teenage kids are getting mean with their timing and targeting while my spouse and I don't know when playful roasting became actual cruelty. We've created a dynamic where being funny matters more than being kind, and nobody knows how to dial it back.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The structure of comedic hierarchy can transform intimacy into performance and connection into cruelty.

Your guide for this
Nas
Nas works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Jokes and their structure?”

Peri

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