To ask when was the last time you laughed...

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I actually can't remember I think it was a year or 2 ago.
The reason I ask is because I seen my friend & her partner, they have both had time off annual leave and my friend said they have had a laugh together this week.
It just got me thinking. I don't really laugh with my partner.

And even when my darling mum died, I was still able to laugh at things that are funny. My stepdad and I laughed the day after she died at something that happened and a memory we had. Laughter is normal and human. Even on bad days, I can still laugh at something that is funny.

Jesus Christ, what do you mean you haven't laughed?! You've never ever found anything slightly amusing that you've chuckled, giggled.. anything?! I've had an absolutely terrible life but I still laugh because I'm not utterly stone faced 😬

I laugh most days with my partner. Our aim is to generally make each other giggle and are constantly teasing each other and saying daft things to each other. His sense of humour is one of the most attractive things about him and I adore seeing him laugh. I've been known to take him to comedy evenings and spend most of the time just watching him laugh. Fills up my cup of joy.

Properly tears down cheeks
laughing in Egypt on holiday around a week ago.
Dh had said something ds and I found really funny.

My dd makes me cry with laughing every day. Full on wheezing and crying.I have to send her away when it starts because my stomach hurts so much.

Last night, with my husband. Proper belly laughs too, tears streaming down my face, couldn't breathe, the works. I can't even remember why now, but he's my best friend, no one can make me laugh like he does.

Except maybe my daughter. I don't know where she got her quick wit but she makes me laugh daily.

We played the song The Laughing Policeman to the grandkids in the car yesterday. They laughed so much it was contagious. It was lovely

I laughed loads yesterday and I was with my uncle and my cousins who lost their wife/mum (my aunt) a few days ago. Even in sadness we like to laugh as a family.

Some of these comments have made me feel really sad. I'm so sorry for those who said it's been years.
I genuinely laugh with my husband every single day. It could just be over a silly shared meme some days, but definitely every day.
I've been dealing with a lot recently including the sudden death of my brother and redundancy, but we still take time for fun and laughter, it's so incredibly important.
Sending love to those struggling ❤️

Me and DH laugh together loads. We have exactly the same sense of humour and it's one of the things I love about our relationship. But generally I am quite a laughy person. Maybe you are not?If you used to be but are no longer, could you be depressed?

Laugh all the time

Me & DH laugh evey day. Being able to make me laugh in any situation is actually one of my favourite things about him!

You say you don't laugh with your partner. But don't you laugh with friends either? Do you never find anything funny on TV or radio, or anything like that?

I probably laugh every day. My DP and I both find a lot of the same things funny, so we tend to make each other laugh a lot. I don't think I can remember a day when we haven't laughed at something. I also laugh a lot with friends, colleagues and family too - I actually got the giggles about a WhatsApp conversation with two of my friends earlier.

But I would say that humour is incredibly important to me, whereas I don't think it's anywhere near as big a deal for some people. Everyone in my family is funny and so are all my friends. We tend find things funny even in the darkest times, and will joke our way through awful experiences. But for some people it's not so much their default setting, and they don't have to find things funny or laugh a lot to be happy.

Proper laughing? I don't remember. Many, many years ago.

About 10 minutes ago when I read a funny meme

My DP, SIL and I raised a few eyebrows at the undertaker's when we were choosing flowers for my FIL's funeral. We were all devastated and shocked to have lost him but some of the flower arrangements in the catalogue were so inappropriate for him that we just got slightly hysterical at the idea of ordering, eg, the arrangement that was in the shape of Del-boy's van*

*We didn't order that one, obviously. We're not monsters.

I laughed about a minute ago with DP, showing him a kids bottle I'd shrunk in the dishwasher.

You have to find the fun in the silly stuff

I laugh every day. Either with my DP or one of my kids.

Oh I'm with you, I used to laugh a lot. But realise that lots of laughter is just nervous laughter. And do get that with a fair few people, just not necessarily my partner. We don't laugh that often. Barely anything on the TV I find funny either. But I do occasionally find myself having a right laugh at something really daft, like an animal video. At home we have been through various hells. So had some joy sucked out of us. That weird space between laughter and crying though. I as at work one day, and a chap there is so dry, he just creases me up. And I absolutely broke down to tears of laughter and couldn't stop myself. Not sure where that comes from, but it's some emotional eruption. The only other time that happened to me was when I was a wedding with my brother and we sang hymns badly or something and just ended up in tears. One of those totally inappropriate moments, that snowballed. He had to burn himself on the church radiator to try to contain it. There is a weird rhythm in laughter. People can be played like a piano if you tune them in. Odd stuff.

Reading mumsnet a few days ago someone said there was a sketch about cousins all wearing matching Christmas jumpers and saying they love each other

Also, everyone who belly laughs on a regular basis, I'd be interested to know how old you are?

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I was crying laughing at lunchtime - DP is WFH today and I’m on holiday - at the cat brazenly trying, repeatedly, to steal cheese off my plate. She is so naughty, but cute with it.

I wish I could laugh. I must be miserable, or depressed.
I only really have one friend but not got together for a while, this is the friend I bumped into who was having a laugh with her partner. It seemed alien to me.
Which is why I posted thread, I don't know if its normal but I've never had a laugh my (long term) partner.

I'm the same, op. I think I must have laughed with him, at the start, 20 years ago, but then he cheated on me and.....everything just died, with him. I'm still numb about it, 12 years later. My children make me smile, but after many, many other things happening in the years, I feel like I'm just a numb human. I wonder what's wrong with me. I don't remember the last time I felt actual, true joy. I have no friends I see - just life as taken us all in different directions. I walk around sometimes and just think, what's the point?

I laugh hysterically all the time at work, because I work with such a load of nutters, and our office banter is the best, my adult children have me in stitches too, and when I'm not moaning at my dh we also have a giggle, however I am very aware that sometimes life can be very cruel, and families have to deal with such awful losses and situations that there may seem to be no reason to find joy and laughter in life, and for that I send a massive hug to anyone struggling with life right now, and hope you find true reasons to smile and laugh again.