6 Ways Sarcasm is Hurting Your Relationships

#4: Forget True Closeness

Real closeness requires real vulnerability. And guess what the one thing is that your friends and family feel they can’t have with you? That closeness. And it goes both ways: you are probably holding yourself back from closeness, too. In families and friend groups where there’s a lot of love but also a lot of sarcasm, we found that people, without realizing it, put up walls and rarely share what they are really thinking. Because if they do share a vulnerable, honest feeling out loud, everyone is waiting for the moment when it gets turned into a joke.