"My wife loves me, wants to trust me, but she thinks I'm fooling around on her in my own home, while we're in it. Jerry Seinfeld, married 16 years On Trust: You need ten years before you can call yourself a beginner." "Being a good husband is like being a stand-up comic. Bonnie McFarlane, married nine years On Being Patient: That said, I think if I had to do it all over again I'd marry someone with a nut allergy." I mean, sometimes I hate my husband and lie awake in bed at night thinking of ways to kill him, but we've been together long enough now that I know I just have to ride it out and we'll be fine. "Marriage definitely has its ups and downs. Greg Fitzsimmons, married 16 years On Not Throwing In the Towel Even When You Really Want to: and the wind under my wings and the FIRE!!' And then then the married people are going, 'Oh shut up!' Because you know in a week they're gonna be, like, 'Hey where's the mayonnaise?' 'I don't know, where'd you put the mayonnaise? Look, sweetie, you're the wind under my wings, but where'd you put the fucking mayonnaise?'" Don't get up there like Shakespeare, like 'And. Use one of those lines every seven years. You spend three months working on words that you'll say to them and you'll never say those words to them again for the rest of your marriage. "People go over the top with marriage vows. Steve Skrovan, married 28 years On Saving Some Romance For After the Wedding: She doesn't have that kind of time to train somebody else." And that's why I know she will never leave me. It was only later I realized that she was using all those years to train me. "I was ready to get married nine years before my wife was. Read on for some hilarious relationship insight straight from the laughter experts themselves. But as the following quotes from her book attest, being able to laugh off the tough stuff may mean the difference between happily-ever-after and heartbreak. Long-term relationships aren't easy for anyone, "arriage can feel as fragile as a soap bubble or as enduring as Mount Rushmore, sometimes flip-flopping within minutes," Modisett writes. The wisdom she gathered in the resulting book is hilarious, heartfelt, and honest. "But what I couldn't tell you - or, more important, me - was how to bring some much-needed levity to my marriage." After realizing that the rules for creating a successful career as a comedian are eerily similar to those for forging a lasting relationship, she went to the comics themselves to learn more. "I could tell you why something was funny or why it wasn't," she writes. After 20 years in the comedy world, Modisett knows the power of laughter, but found the sound sadly missing in her own relationship. That's the whole premise behind comedian Dani Klein Modisett's book, Take My Spouse, Please: How to Keep Your Marriage Happy, Healthy, and Thriving By Following the Rules of Comedy. We've all had those tragic/comic relationship moments where we can either laugh or cry, and chances are, if you chose to crack a joke, both you and your partnership emerged stronger. But at least you'll have something to laugh about in your quest for togetherness, because the sometimes seemingly nonsensical union of two lives makes for great comedy.Īs such, it's no surprise that many comedians' best material comes out of the everyday insanity of trying to make togetherness work. The process of merging two independent, strong-willed people into an integrated whole generally goes about as smoothly as herding cats. Maintaining a long-term relationship can feel like a full time job.
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