![]() ![]() 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. Friedrich Nietzsche: "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.Maintaining a long-term relationship can feel like a full time job.Ogden Nash: "To keep your marriage brimming with love…whenever you’re wrong admit it.Leo Tolstoy: "What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.".Tom Mullen: "Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry.".Norman Wright: "In marriage, each partner is to be an encourager rather than a critic, a forgiver rather than a collector of hurts, an enabler rather than a reformer." Mitch Albom: "Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them…It is not until much later…that children understand their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives.".Goethe: "There are two lasting bequests we can give our children.But where in the world did the children vanish?" Phyllis McGinley: "These are my daughters, I suppose.But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't." Barbara Kingsolver: "It kills you to see them grow up.Euripides: "To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.".Guy Lombardo: "Many a man wishes he were strong enough to tear a telephone book in half, especially if he has a teenage daughter.".And when she is a woman he turns her back again." Enid Bagnold: "A father is always making his baby into a little woman.John Gregory Brown: "There’s something like a line of gold thread running through a man’s words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself.". ![]()
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