How Comedy And Humor Plays A Part In Successful Relationships

I grew up watching a lot of comedy. I watched The Simpsons, Family Guy, American Dad, Mad TV, Saturday Night Live, Malcolm In The Middle, Family Matters, Friends, The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air, Full House, That 70s Show, Sabrina The Teenage Witch, Rugrats, The PJs, Bobby’s World, Doug, King Of The Hill, Home Improvement, Frasier, Everybody Loves Raymond, Saved By The Bell, Roseanne, Step By Step and Hangin’ With Mr. Cooper. I learned to not take life too seriously and to understand many different points of view.

I wanted to be with a guy who loved comedy and was witty. It was important to me to not be with someone who lacked a personality. I felt trapped when things were taken too seriously. I didn’t want to be stuck in a boring relationship.

I had talked to a lot of men that were attractive and had good looks. Not too many of them had a great sense of humor. A lot of them had certain expectations and objectives that they wanted to meet. I knew from meeting them and getting to know them briefly that it was not going to go anywhere.

Barton Goldsmith wrote a brief article for Psychology Today that summarizes how having humor in a relationship will leave you reaping multiple benefits. It will have you loving better and living better. You will have lower overall stress enjoying laughter and experiencing joy, which will lift you out of the lower emotional states of anxiety and depression. This is a recipe for a happy and successful relationship.

Over the past two years, my fiancé and I have watched countless comedic cartoons, shows and movies together. We have also gone to see our favorite comedian perform live last year. There’s a comedy club close to our house that we love frequenting as well. During the quarantine, we binge watched all 5 seasons and 98 episodes of Superstore. We enjoy making room for fun and laughter in our lives.

There’s still chores and tasks that have to be done around the house. We still have to work. We encounter issues and problems. Sometimes there’s car troubles that come up. We are not immune to the struggles of daily life.

We learn to make time for each other. In the evenings, we put on various comedians and enjoy the insightfulness and laughter that it brings. This has become a necessity in our lives.

We’ve learned to balance joy with the mundane and serious parts of life. Comedy, humor and laughter helped us to cope with some of the tragedies and misfortunes that we’ve gone through. Sometimes we get to see something in a new light. Sometimes we just get to laugh and hear something ridiculous and forget about the day’s stresses. We’ve learned to make room for joy.