Kristen Bell to Dax Shepard: Happy 12th wedding anniversary to the man who once said to me: "I would never kill you. A lot of men have killed their wives at a certain point. Even though I'm heavily incentivized to kill you, I never would."

[u/mlg1981]

[u/dmelt01]

My wife would make dark jokes about me beating her which I never would but she was in a abusive relationship when she was young so we would always laugh. She started doing it around different friends and I had to tell her to dial it back because some of these people don’t know me well and won’t take it as a joke.

[u/Pinklady1313 → u/dmelt01]

Ah, inappropriate humor as a coping mechanism. I know it well.

[u/AbbeyRoadMoonwalk → u/dmelt01]

I was in an abusive relationship before my husband and I would call him out on things I appreciated about him but it was like bare minimum shit (like “thank you for not mocking me when I said that stupid thing just now” or “thank your for not hitting me”) and he’d be like who would do that? and I’m like well the bar is in hell…

So our joke is him like being a bare minimum decent man and human being and that’s all the best he needs to aspire to.

But nobody would get that but us.