49. The Importance of Humor in Marriage

Julie is a Jewish comedic actress and writer & Rebbetzin Bat-Chen Grossman is a marriage coach. Together they'll discuss the importance of humor in marriage. Find Julie on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook. Links FLOW Mastermind – A Business Mastermind for an Integrated Life The Fly Program – A Marriage That is Finally Free To Take Off 5 Surprising Ways to Improve Your Marriage Let’s Connect! Connected for Real is on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn and Youtube! For more information about Connected for Real, visit the website! Subscribe to the PodcastSpotify | Google Podcasts | Apple Podcasts Welcome to the Connected for Real podcast. I'm Rebbetzin Bat-Chen Grossman, a marriage coach for women and business, and my mission is to bring God's presence into your life, into your marriage, and into your business. Let's get started. Welcome everyone to the Connected for Real podcast. I am Rebbetzin Bat-Chen Grossman, and with me today is Julie, and I'm super excited. Julie, please introduce yourself so everyone knows who you are and then we'll get into it. I am Julie Rothschild Levi. I am a comedic actress and writer. I am originally from Minnesota and I've been living in Israel for the past 12 years. And I just like to laugh at life situations and I create those types of situations and reels and comic videos on social media. You can find me on Instagram and TikTok and on Facebook yes. That's how I found you. I find it so fun to just take a break and watch you doing funny things, So that's really fun. Okay, so I'm a marriage coach and what I am obsessed with and fascinated by is how everything in our lives, our marriage, and how our marriage affects everything else. So I wanna talk a little bit today about how humor affects marriage, and if you could give us a little bit into that and some examples. Well, first of all, I think the concept of marriage is pretty funny to begin with. , you know, I mean, we, we head into a lifelong relationship or hopefully it is and build a family with somebody who we continuously get to know over the years and we change obviously as much as they change. And I think that it. Marriage, I think is a challenge. As much as it is, as it is. Wonderful. I think laughter and humor have such a role because what are laughter and humor? They're light, they're bringing light to the world, bringing light to our relationships and, and any type of situation we deal with, really. I mean, I think it's a coping tool, right? So I I really believe that humor is an important part of marriage. . Yes. And I think of humor as a connector as well because, you know, my husband says an attractive man is a man who can make a woman laugh. You know, it, it creates a relationship like right away, you know, if a guy can make you laugh and on a date, or, you know, when you're just out with your friends, you feel connected. very much so. I mean, I think laughter is one of the main connectors, and I think it's very intimate. I think when we can make each other laugh, we're creating a bond. First of all, it's release, right? We get the endorphins going and it's, it's a way to share something with somebody that you're only sharing with them. Like if you laugh at the same joke, , it's it's bonding. So I think laughter and humor are very much important in marriage because life is, can be very heavy , and we need to take that heaviness and somehow shine some light into it. So that's the way, that's the way to do it. And I also, you said that a husband making his wife laugh. Well, I think you can go the other way too. , I actually love it. When I'm able to make my husband laugh and anybody else in my life, to me it's just it's a wonderful feeling. I think it's a gift to give to somebody. Yes, for sure, for sure. I love that. And we have, one of my, one of our daughters is very funny. She has such a sense of humor and it adds so much to the conversation was someone says,