• mastertigurius@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    If your friend is mean to you and belittling you, he’s not your friend. He just found a therapy puppet for himself.

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      5 hours ago

      On the other hand, you can’t have banter without a bit of mockery. A relationship without some traded jabs is tepid, superficial, at best. It indicates that the people in the relationship don’t really trust each other, that the emotional stability of the relationship is untested and unreliable.

      It shouldn’t be constant, and it shouldn’t be one-sided, and it also shouldn’t be completely absent.