the love files | lighten the mood
The Beauty of
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Laughter
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By Jarrod Thalheimer
ant to experience the full beauty that love has to offer? You better start laughing.
In 2015, a researcher from the University of Kansas did a complex, in-depth study on men, women, and humor. He discovered that the more laughter a relationship has, the better and stronger it is. But you already knew that, mainly because you’ve been on dates where no one laughed ever and it was painfully awful. Of course laughter is important when it comes to love. Duh!
Regular, genuine humor permeates any successful relationship. But the clubs of life can beat down even the happiest among us. What to do when you’re not feeling the funny so much anymore? Here are 5 fresh tips (plus a bonus!) to help bring back the laughs— because that’s why you’re reading this in the first place, right? 72
ALWAYS LOOK FOR HUMOR At times, life can be crazy, frustrating, or just plain dull. Still, funny exists in the strangest of places. Ask a comedian. The calculation goes something like this: Comedy = tragedy + time. Almost anything is funny once you get some distance from it. Remember when the dog got up on the counter and ate that entire tray of buns you baked for next week’s lunches? You were furious at the time…but now? How about that “intimate” wax job you hoped would be sexy but ended with you limping around like Frankenstein’s assistant Igor for two solid weeks? The sooner (and harder) you can laugh at the silly things that happen to each and every one of us, the better it is for you both. Find the funny and reap the relationship rewards.
