I believe one of the best things we can bring to a marriage is laughter.
Laughter truly is the best medicine.
As you all know from my post on Wednesday (One Bite at a Time), life has been stressful lately.
Ryan and I have both been less patient, more irritable, than usual.
Getting away for the weekend – spending two days in Minneapolis with just the two of us – was divine.
We enjoyed great food and deep conversation and time alone.
But by far, my favorite memory, was the drive home.
Seems weird, after eating at nice restaurants and strolling through the Mall of America, that the drive home would be a highlight.
But it totally was.
Because there was a portion of the drive where Ryan and I laughed.
Not just chuckles either. But full-out, tear-inducing, can’t-talk, belly-aching laughter.
Oh man, it felt good.
I love that God gives us something so wonderful.
I love that after eight years of marriage, we can still laugh like that.
I hope we have many, many, many more years of laughter ahead of us.
Let’s Talk: When’s the last time you laughed so hard you cried? Who was it with?
You can find me several places today…
I’m talking about the importance of the ping-moment in our stories over at The Writer’s Alley (plus a giveaway of my debut novel).
I’m talking about adoption and redemption over at Lisa Jordan’s blog.
I share the very best advice I’ve ever received with Serena Chase on Outside the Writer’s Studio (plus a giveaway of my debut novel).
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I love it when my husband and I have those moments where I realize, after 15 years, that I STILL LIKE YOU SO SO MUCH. 🙂
Thanks for sharing your moment with us. (P.S. I hope you were laughing-and-driving safely!)
I totally agree! My husband and I laugh every single day and it is such a great thing. You have to laugh or else you’d cry sometimes, I think. Laughter is what gets us through.
This is exactly why I love my husband so much. Because this is what we do. From time to time, a good belly-aching laugh is perfection. 🙂
Love this, K.
Although my husband and I share laughs on a regular basis, the last time I had a good belly laugh was with my daughter over some of her daughters’, my granddaughters’, antics. At ages 4 & 1, they are pistols, and keep us in stitches. Such sweet blessings, the laughter and grandchildren!!
I agree laughter is so important: it offers a much-needed release and in marriage acts like glue to hold us together. However, sadly the messiness of life through the years can weigh us down. Sometimes we need to search out a laughter catalyst to generate those belly laughs again.
Glad you had that special moment.
I love, love, love laughter! Makes every moment brighter and life more worth living.
Can’t wait to see that new cover!!
I love laughing. Those belly laughs are the best–and I’m convinced they help you stay trim in your core. So you should laugh more often. Ha.
Anyway, I can’t remember the last time we laughed like that because we do it a lot. Something will just strike us as funny and we crack up. I love it. It builds such intimacy. It’s like a joke no one else gets. Just the two of you. Love it!
When that uncontrollable laughing-crying hiccupping making a total spaz out of yourself in public thing happens to me, it reminds me I don’t laugh enough. I guess it’s sort of all bottled up like old soda, given a sudden shake until it blows all over the place. Sad and funny all at once. 🙂
I embarrassed my poor daughter (13 at the time, worst age ever to have a dork mom in public) when my friend and I & our two daughters went to see Elf. It really isn’t that funny, (I know, I watched it again later and didn’t laugh once) but I guess I hadn’t laughed in quite a while because I was a blubbering mess. My friend got a big kick out of it, but my daughter and the other girl moved to the other end of the theater.
So though unfortunately traumatic for others, it did feel good. 😀
Hmmm. I commented earlier, but it isn’t showing up. Weird.
I got the giggles last night in the middle of the movie theater with my husband. It still makes me laugh just thinking about it!
My husband has a dry wit that cracks me up constantly. He can say something that sounds so normal to someone else, but I may know the underlying meaning and I go into a fit of giggles.
There’s a reason why laughter is great medicine. 🙂
I love this, Lisa! I love the secret, unspoken things we understand about our spouses just because we know each other so well. “we” sounds sort of weird here, doesn’t it? But you know what I mean!
Lisa, that’s my favorite kind of wit, love that, and love that you have the bonus of knowing you’re the only one who “gets” it. 🙂
A day hasn’t gone by in almost 27 years that I haven’t had a laugh with Himself. Jokes, wisecracks while watching TV or how ridiculous I look screaming and pointing when a spider waltzes by.
Hey – spiders are scary. I don’t blame you for screaming one bit.
I usually belly laugh with my husband every night while watching TV and talking but he’s basically lived at work this week so I’d have to say cracking up at my son. I literally wiped tears from eyes.
I’m glad you had a great time!
I crack up at my son all the time. Boys are hilarious without meaning to be hilarious. At least mine doesn’t mean to be.
I always laugh the hardest with John. He can make a certain face that just drives me insane with laughter. It’s his “super nerd” face and he does the pushing invisible glasses up his nose move. I lose it everytime!!!I call him my ‘biker nerd’, because he looks rather mean with his bad beard and sneer. Then he pushes up the invisible glasses and says “do you want to get together and do some triganometry because I have a nice new calculator!” then he makes a snorting noise. 23 years on June 17th.
Alright – so you need to have your husband do a vlog of this face and these funny words he says about trigonometry.
Had breakfast w/ a friend recently and we cracked each other up.
Love those times in the car w/ my husband & also date nights. HUGE for our marriage. Time away w/out distractions.
~ Wendy
Huge for our marriage too, Wendy!
I agree, laughter IS the best medicine. And I happen to be married to a really funny guy. 🙂 Recently my fam (husband + kids + me) were at Subway and there was a mix up in the order and somehow, one person’s goofy comment about it led to another, and that set us off laughing like the kind you described above. Soon, we were doubled over in the booth in hysterics. Thank goodness we were the only ones in the place, but you’re so right… it felt good!
Hey Barb! Good to “see” you, chica! Hope life is treating you well.
That whole episode in Subway sounds amazing. If laughing with husbands is awesome, then laughing with husbands and children is extra awesome!