Have Y’all Laughed Today?
Tara Pringle Jefferson is a freelance writer from Ohio, where she lives with her husband and two kids. Visit her blog, TheYoungMommyLife.com, for daily musings about the issues young moms face.
Some of the best dates ever with my husband have been our trips to the local comedy club. The drinks are cheap, the food is sinfully delicious and the comics, while unknown, are usually hilarious and hungry for the stage.
We laugh so hard our cheeks hurt and I’ve cried on a couple of occasions when the jokes came too fast and furious for me to catch my breath. Afterward, we’ll just replay the jokes in our heads and burst out laughing all over again.
Laughter is great foreplay. It relaxes you, makes you happy, gets you feeling like the two of you are in on an intimate secret. We’ve made it a weekly date night to either go to a comedy club or rent a funny movie.
With all the stresses of life and marriage, being able to laugh together is crucial. If you allow the frustrations of everyday life to steal your ability to laugh with your mate, then something is wrong.
Keep it light. Don’t get so bogged down in your bad day that you can’t laugh at a corny joke your significant other tries to tell. If they make fun of you for something, just once, smile and laugh at it. My husband has a whole arsenal of jokes about me being shorter and my head being bigger than 95 percent of the population. I used to get mad, now I just sling back a comment of my own. (I will admit that he always nails me though. I can never get the last one in!)
Do you and your mate laugh enough? When’s the last time you laughed hard together?
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