Both T and I do a fair amount of laughing in sessions. Humor is one of my defense mechanisms, and I can make jokes about some seemingly inappropriate subjects. T seems to have a dark (and dry) sense of humor and will laugh at them and make jokes of his own.

This isn't an example of a particularly dark one, but a recent one. We were on a topic of me being concerned that things I say or do would bother him. And one thing I said was, "Use too many of your tissues" which made him laugh. Also in that session, I was mentioning going out to eat a lot, and he said our dining bills must be really high. I said yeah, that and beer, which is another reason to cut back on that. Then I added, "But I did manage to give up my Starbucks habit!" Which made him crack up.

Maybe more examples later. I should add that he didn't start joking around too much until I'd been seeing him for a bit and he learned how I reacted to things. And if I'm in a really bad place, he generally doesn't make some inappropriate joke (with one or two exceptions that I've called him on). But I find that joking around together a bit can help build the relationship and also make difficult topics a bit easier to talk about.

We joked a lot with ex-MC, too, though his sense of humor is more goofy and using puns and stuff--I guess sort of "dad humor."