05 May 2010, 2:40 pm
I guess I do. I never feel like I'm being snippy or mean, but my SO says that I make fun of him when we're in a group together. It makes me feel awful afterward, because it isn't intentional.
For me, some of this is a result of upbringing, though. My entire family is of the brutally honest sort; all of them will say exactly what they think of you as they're thinking it. I think this has stymied the development of my filter. 
I do know that the interactions of my immediate family appear "mean" to observers. My mom and I have the same incredibly dry sense of humor, and the way that we demonstrate that we like someone is by letting him or her into the fold and being our sarcastic selves. As a result, we often seem like we're being mean when we're actually showing affection, haha. It took me a long time to figure out that not all children interacted with their parents this way.
