[quote=@Inkarnate]
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Mostly due to childhood trauma and ill life experience that I deflect with sarcastic wit. Why are [i]you[/i] the way you are? Hm? 
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Because I have low-self esteem and use irony and self-deprecation as a barrier that nobody, not even my wife, can break through all the way. 

[i]a-duh[/i]