I am someone who doesn't like being teased, especially by people I'm close with. I'm sort of the opposite of what a lot of other people are, who don't mind being teased by their families, but don't like being teased by people they don't know well
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Yes!! "good-natured" teasing can go too far, especially in families.
Also there is a big difference between "teasing" and "joking around" I think a lot of "teasing" is right on the edge of abusive. If I hear one more time "You are just to sensitive. You need to grow thicker skin." I think I will scream very long and very very loudly.
I'm with you both. I find "you're just too sensitive" to be a way of disavowing responsibility and ducking out of a potentially embarrassing apology. My question is always "Who died and made you the arbiter of how sensitive or insensitive a human being should be?"
And you're right, Ruth - it's definitely something that came up in the early days for me and my partner, because I do not engage well in the early morning, and that was a natural source of humour. Naturally, right then, I'm tired and vulnerable; it is a *huge* struggle for me to make the transition between sleeping and waking at both ends, and I'm hanging onto a monofilament of trying to get things done in the early morning. Laughter derails me right into tears.
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Also there is a big difference between "teasing" and "joking around" I think a lot of "teasing" is right on the edge of abusive. If I hear one more time "You are just to sensitive. You need to grow thicker skin." I think I will scream very long and very very loudly.
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And you're right, Ruth - it's definitely something that came up in the early days for me and my partner, because I do not engage well in the early morning, and that was a natural source of humour. Naturally, right then, I'm tired and vulnerable; it is a *huge* struggle for me to make the transition between sleeping and waking at both ends, and I'm hanging onto a monofilament of trying to get things done in the early morning. Laughter derails me right into tears.
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