My family members tease each other and we manage to laugh about it.
You got your panties in a twist because of a half joke about a bunion and a "stab, stab" SWO joke? Your family sounds unspeakably boring if you can't even give each other mild shit about anything, and you consider mild teasing to be showing a lack of respect.
Any negativity "blossoming" toward you seems to me to be more about your inability to take a (mild) joke and the chip on your shoulder, and not your choice of community.
There is a very vocal faction of this community that is fervently anti-marriage. As a wife, I laugh at their jokes, manage to see some truth in them, and even make some self-depricating jokes of my own. That's what has worked since time immemorial and on playgrounds 'round the world. If you cry and stomp your foot indignantly when someone steals your ball, your ball is going to get stolen a lot. If you laugh, you might make a friend.
You got your panties in a twist because of a half joke about a bunion and a "stab, stab" SWO joke? Your family sounds unspeakably boring if you can't even give each other mild shit about anything, and you consider mild teasing to be showing a lack of respect.
Any negativity "blossoming" toward you seems to me to be more about your inability to take a (mild) joke and the chip on your shoulder, and not your choice of community.
There is a very vocal faction of this community that is fervently anti-marriage. As a wife, I laugh at their jokes, manage to see some truth in them, and even make some self-depricating jokes of my own. That's what has worked since time immemorial and on playgrounds 'round the world. If you cry and stomp your foot indignantly when someone steals your ball, your ball is going to get stolen a lot. If you laugh, you might make a friend.