I am someone who doesn't like being teased, especially by people I'm close with. I'm sort of the opposite of what a lot of other people are, who don't mind being teased by their families, but don't like being teased by people they don't know well.

I can take teasing and joking from people who aren't terribly close to me. Maybe it's the fact that I know that most people won't actually tease about something unless they're fairly certain it's not a big issue. For instance if someone teases me for being clumsy, and I don't know them well, it probably means that I tripped in a way that anyone could have tripped, I'm not actually super clumsy. If I was really, really clumsy, they probably wouldn't tease me about it, it'd be too close to home.

But if someone close to me, especially my partner teases me, I can't just take it as a joke for some reason, it almost inevitably hurts my feelings. It's really hard to find equilibrium when a person feels that joking around and teasing is an integral part of their personality, yet their jokes make me feel bad. My family never really teased as a way to show affection, though I know many families who did, and the children of those families know best how to show their affection to others via teasing.