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We Can Do Hard Things

What If My Partner’s Jokes Hurt My Feelings?

We Can Do Hard Things

Glennon Doyle & Audacy

Society & Culture, Relationships, Education, Self-improvement

4.841.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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382. What If My Partner’s Jokes Hurt My Feelings? Abby, Amanda, and Glennon get to forget their problems for a while as they answer your questions on relationships and anxiety.  -How to know if your words are a hit or a hug -What malicious joking reveals in a relationship -Whether anxiety fuels art -How Amanda and John have identified and dealt with off-limit topics in their marriage If you want to subscribe to our newsletter, click here. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:58.0

Yay! This is my comfort zone. What a relief.

1:05.0

I know, right? Isn't this great? Okay, so let's just jump in. Let's just hear from these loves.

1:14.7

Let's start with Jessie. Hi, Glenn and sister and Abby. My name is Jessie, she her, and I have a big question for you.

1:23.2

My partner is the love of my life. He's so sweet. He's so thoughtful and so kind. And our relationship overall is amazing. And sometimes he makes jokes that I just think are hurtful. And I

1:34.2

have told him and he says they're not being spirited and he's just joking. But it's

1:42.7

hurtful and I can't get pasted and I don't know what to do to make him see my side

1:52.3

because I feel like if he could understand that his impact was not matching his intent

1:58.0

then he wouldn't be making the joke. But it's been a real

2:02.9

sticking point in our relationship that I really don't know what to do. So if you have any

2:07.8

advice, please help me out. This is juicy. Bueller. Anyone? I have something because I think I understand this. Okay, the context I have for this is in my

2:23.1

relationship, we have figured this out with any comments about food or exercise. And so I think the

2:33.3

idea is, so in my relationship, John has just learned that he can say absolutely

2:40.5

nothing about food, not even the most benign things like if I'm saying I've had trouble sleeping

2:48.4

or I'm not feeling well. And the obvious answer is you need to go

2:52.5

exercise or you need to eat better, which is clearly everyone knows is the answer. This cannot be

2:58.9

said out loud because any kind of suggestion that I should be exercising or that eating a certain

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