About once every two months my wife finds something particularly amusing. Years ago it was some foible or something by one of our kids. It can be something by the family pets. It can be something she sees on TV maybe even a commercial.
Whatever it is she can start with a giggle, then a laugh, then uncontrollable hysterical laughing that starts somewhere down between her toes.
When this happens it's the sexiest thing anyone ever saw or hoped to see! I will literally drop anything I'm doing to sit back and watch and enjoy! When she notices that I have noticed that makes her laugh harder.
She tries to get control then bursts into another aching laughing jag. Sometimes she will look at me almost in desperation and say, "I can't breathe!" as if I was tickling her, and I'm across the room.
She has laughed so hard she has tears streaming down her face and she has hooked her fingers on the corners of her mouth and pulled downward.
She will do this for sometimes eight to ten minutes. When she finally stops it isn't because whatever it was stopped being funny. It is because she is literally exhaused from laughing.
We have been married 35 years and I get as much fun out of this as I did before we were married. She makes me laugh just to watch her.
Such women are a gift from on high.
Hiram ~ First of all, let me toast you and your wife :cheers2: for obviously sharing such a beautiful marriage - the kind that inspires the rest of us!
Secondly, I believe what you are describing is the female "giggle fit"...
We females tend to get them for the darndest reasons...sometimes I can be lying asleep beside my husband at night and suddenly wake up and somewhere in my groggy cranium I recall something that happened years ago, or yesterday or that evening, and it is so funny my body wants to just crack up then and there. Usually, I try and muffle it in the pillow, but inevitably, my hubby (who can hear a Kleenex ruffle in the room!) wakes up...and there is just something funny about seeing the profile of his head lift off the pillow just so in the dark as he begins to realize what's going on...
In the early days of our marriage, I'd try and stifle the giggling and he'd just try and sleep through it, but the bed bounced so much, that now days he just sits up on his side and says, "Ah! I see you're having a giggle-fit. Come on...let it out..."...and now will even indulge in making it worse by tickling me!
When at dinner one night with some other couples, and the guys were swapping stories about the things they had least expected in a marriage, "giggle fits" were at the top of the list....
Likewise, for us females, the expression on our husband's faces of puzzlement, amusement or worse-when they decided to really ham it up and send us an over-the-top-exaggerated-dumbfounded look, will just send the giggle-fit to new heights...
Don't know why we females are wired this way...but I can admit to it being part of the wiring from childhood, as there were many a slumber party that were interspersed with mass-giggle fits for no really good reason...
Guess its just something we females don't outgrow?
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