6 Ways Sarcasm is Hurting Your Relationships

#3: You Won’t Get an Honest Opinion

If you’re known as someone who always makes funny, biting remarks, you are almost certainly ensuring that you won’t hear peoples’ true opinions or beliefs. People are smart. It is far safer to keep their thoughts to themselves than to risk a sarcastic—and potentially embarrassing—response from you. So they’ll be guarded with what they express and reveal to you. As a result, you end up missing out on helpful input. And you lose two key elements of a healthy relationship—intimacy and authenticity.