Stay Funny, Marriage.
With Hollywood divorces splashed across magazines and news headlines, it’s hard to remember that that there are working marriages out there.
Sure, it’s tough, and exhausting, and sometimes you feel like you are two seconds from either hiring a good lawyer or calling a friend to help you dig a hole, but other times… you laugh.
Good thing she likes puns, right?
Keeping the laughter in a relationship is important, just ask our spouses, they think we’re hilarious!
Meredith, married 5 years:
This was me, questioning if I should get married. You know, as I was getting ready to walk down the aisle to get married. I’m a huge procrastinator.
That’s my dad with me. He’s reminding how much money he spent on our wedding. Like my husband, he is also very funny, even in the most stressful moments.
Turns out, I made the right choice that day. I find Shaun’s sense of humor is incredibly sexy, and I can’t imagine days where we don’t laugh.
Meredith, that thong you had on this morning was hot.
What thong?
The one you had on this morning when your butt was hanging out of the covers.
I don’t even OWN a thong anymore, Shaun.
Either that was a thong or the biggest wedgie you’ve ever had in your life.
Hmmm… my butt must have eaten my underwear.
Can we just pretend like it was a thong and never speak of this again?
Yes, yes we can.
Katie, married 3 years:
The last time we were in the stupid hospital with labor contractions, my husband proudly proclaimed that he could be my “abdoula” for the baby.
The nurse and I died laughing.
Nanette, married 6 years:
While I was in Vegas for a work trade show for three days, Brent had quite the taste of what my days are like with our daughter, especially when he’s out of town for work.
We had this text exchange while I was there.
Do you happen to recall having triplets? No way this is the only child. I think they’re cycling through a rotation.
Welcome to my world…
Not a fair fight when fresh babies keep coming in off the bench!
Brittany, married 7 years:
Nothing makes me happier than emailing my husband nonsense all day, it keeps things exciting.
Andy,
New plan! Screw the Christmas cards. We are going to do a Christmas video!
I’m going to see if they have festive colored leotards that would work.
Thoughts?
Love, B
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Meredith Soleau was supposed to be a famous country singer, but her parents made her go to college and major in something “real.” She graduated with a B.S. in business, and landed a gig as a Human Resources Director at a large car dealership in Ohio. 
It doesn’t matter what is going on, David can always make me laugh. I’m trying to plan an event right now for our girl scout troop at a local camp ground. I asked the other moms for ideas on activities we could do with them. One mom emailed and said we could roast marshmallows. You know, because I never thought of that. I was telling David about her obvious recommendation and he responded, “Oh, I know, we can eat them too.” It was just the laugh I needed.
I always (OK, most times) follow up Patrick’s farts with a question. (ex. What? Did you call me? Did you say something?)
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA!
Love it!
OMG I cannot resist fart jokes. I. Love. This.
Bit of crudeness here but it still makes us laugh:
My husband was looking particularly good one evening, so I said to him, “Honey, you are a MILD”. He looked at me like I was crazy and then I realized and said, “Oh, I changed the wrong letter, I meant DILF”.
“man i’d like to do”. you were just being more polite ;-)
I like to tell my husband that I will fart in his face if he’s getting on my nerves. I (probably) never would, but it completely catches him off guard and makes him life. I always tell him he’s lucky that he married a woman that can joke about poop and farts :)
Yeah, another woman that doesn’t take herself to seriously and can laugh at bathroom humor. I’m always compared to an 8-year old boy because of my sense of humor. But farting is funny, dammit!
hehe, but(t), farting, hehehe
I’m not married, but me and my boyfriend are both so socially awkward that we have to laugh at/with each other or we’d die of embarrassment. On our second date we both nearly passed out because we choked on our dinner. If we didn’t laugh and joke (and blog) about it we would have never had a 3rd date.
Yes, ….the future Mrs Flask will HAVE to have a sense of humor.
1) Because I will drive her insane if she doesn’t
2) A great evening full of laughter often leads to great sex
3) It will be nice to know she is laughing with my inytae enispae and not at it.
2) A great evening full of laughter often leads to great sex
This is a true statement right here and the man that knows this will have a very happy marriage!
I believe that the true secret to a happy marriage is to laugh together and often.
It was about 6 weeks before our wedding this past fall, and I had to have a colonoscopy thanks to a history of colon cancer in my family. The hubby-to-be accompanied me to the procedure which was uneventful. While I was in recovery was apparently when the comedy show started. The juice they give you to put you under is pretty darn good stuff – I only wish they could bottle it like beer. Anyway, my hubby is a former morning radio dj, who thinks very quickly on his feet. He says to the guy wheeling me into recovery, “what, you’re done with the boob job already?” and apparently this guy was just completely flabbergasted. My comment was “I hope they made them smaller” which only made this poor orderly even more embarrassed. At least that’s what he told me I said. Then when they told me I had to pass gas, I stuck my finger out and told my hubby to “pull my finger” and farted a nice long one and then giggled like an 8 year old boy. He loves to tell this story and proceeded to share this on our wedding night at our reception.
One of the biggest reasons I married him was for his fantastic sense of humor. We laugh all the time.
That’s so funny! Thanks for sharing!
My husband makes me laugh all the time. Even when we’re both dead ass exhausted and we’re just lying there in bed, he finds a way to make me laugh. Usually it involves asking me something really strange, like, can he poke me in the forehead or letting out a huge fart and then leaning in with a winky face all “hey baby, in the mood now???” Plus he is just plain awesome. He will change the lyrics to songs in the car to correspond with whatever we’re doing. So, yes, Lady Gaga *does* sing about grocery shopping. At least she does when he channels her. He’s also incredibly romantic. Flowers for no reason, emails of lyrics or poems to me at work and love texts all the time.
17 years and still going….
My husband changes song lyrics like that, too! I just look at him like he’s insane. And, of course, he feeds off it, and ends up making “Pumped Up Kicks” into an eight-minute song about cooking bacon. Ohhh, marriage.
I love him.
My husband does that, too! Changes song lyrics, I mean. Also, we both have a love for singing crappy 70s, 80s and 90s songs just to crack the other one up. We do this a lot while cooking. I do a mean Michael McDonald impression, haha!
My husband and I both have bizarre, twisted senses of humor. I honestly have no idea what people would think if they heard our pillow talk before we go to sleep.
We’ve also recently begun planning for the hypothetical end of the world. It makes for some of the weirdest conversations I’ve ever been a part of, and it usually ends with us re-watching The Walking Dead. Like I said, we’re kind of twisted. But I wouldn’t have it any other way.
Oh, and we’ve been together 4 years (married for 18 months).
Our pillow talk is super funny. If there were just a fly on the wall, we’d be rich!
My husband makes me laugh all the time. Normally it is about really nerdy stuff (quick, tell a lawyer joke) or just over the antics of our dog, but we crack each other up – if you can’t laugh with the person you love, who can you laugh with?
A lawyer and a polar bear walk into a bar…
My marriage would be empty without humor. Even some of our worst fights have ended up with us laughing. My favourite was when I called him a nasty name, he pointed at me and said, “Don’t ever call me that again!” At which point, I pulled his finger and made a fart noise.
Yes, we also laugh after a fight.
“Remember when you threw a cheeseburger at the wall because I was pregnant and upset that you didn’t ask if I wanted one?”
My husband and I play a game where we sightsee for “celebrities.” it could be a person that just barely looks like said celebrity and we crack ourselves up with this. “Hey! There goes Ted Nugent!”. It’s difficult to describe… But we crack each other up!
Meredith: GORGEOUS dress, by the way.
We bought a cabana-style dog house last fall. As we were driving it home, with its thatched roof blowing in the wind down I-81, I suggested that we should trick it out with Christmas lights at the holidays. Husband agreed.
Then I said we should put a little manager scene in it and of course a lighted Santa. Husband said he was pretty sure Santa wasn’t at the birth of Christ.
I asked Mr. Bible Scholar to explain to me why Santa *wouldn’t* visit the Baby Jesus on his first Christmas AND his first birthday? What could the Holy Newborn have possibly done to get on the naughty list?
At that point he laughed and said he was done talking to me. Forever.
Ha. That didn’t last.
My husband texting me, laughing about the fact that I missed an opportunity last week to bust out my “hall pass” for Adam Levine, is an indicator of the humor in our marriage. I couldn’t be with a man who didn’t crack me up.
My whole family has a really quick wit sometimes sarcastic sense of humor. It is pretty awesome that the Husband fit right in with that. He makes me laugh all the time but it’s pretty awesome when he has my parents laughing so hard my Mom is actively trying not to pee herself. He can make everything fun.