Sometimes the meanness is unintentional, the result of a misunderstanding or outside circumstances.
Not exact matches
In couples therapy, I
sometimes say to couples, only half - joking, that they need to create a practice in which whomever stops the
meanness back - and - forth gets a high five or a shout - out.
It is
sometimes the result of vengeance or just simple
meanness on the part of a person who is one half of a romantic couple that has broken up; or it can even be merely the result of a «date gone bad.»