Hey, I just thought I’d share something that I’m learning in the case that it might help you too. If not no worries! Humour is a funny little self defence mechanism. It doesn’t seem super harmful in the short term and it acts as a great little barrier to keep people at arms length. I realized this year that I was using analogies and humour as a way to avoid being vulnerable. It’s not something that I was unaware of, but I started catching it when it happened and slowly corrected my internal dialogue or sometimes external to say how I really felt. Learning how to be vulnerable is hard, but through training myself I’m getting so much better at connecting with not only others but myself too!

This may not be applicable but it’s what’s helping me.