We were sitting in the living room together, enjoying a lazy weekend afternoon. Scrolling through recent posts on Facebook, I noticed that my grade school friend, Jenny, had shared a picture of her newborn horse. Knowing that my husband loves horses, I said, “Hey, Kurt, Jenny’s horse had a baby.”
There was a long pause.
“How old is she?” he finally asked.
What? How would I know how old Jenny’s horse is? Huh?
After a second or two, it clicked. Oooooh! He clearly hadn’t heard me correctly. (This happens with some regularity in our house these days.)
“No, not Jenny! Her horse,” I said, trying to speak clearly and raising the volume a bit. “Jenny’s… horse… had… a… baby.”
There was a pregnant pause and he said to me, slowly, enunciating each word carefully, knowing something was wrong, but not sure precisely what, “Demi… Moore’s… horse… had… a baby?”
What? OMG! I burst out laughing and he joined right in, good-natured though he still had no idea what I’d actually said.
“Ah, Kurt, ” I laughed, “growing old together is going to be quite an adventure!”
Nix the comfort zone 
This made me giggle, because I can relate as my hearing becomes a little fuzzy these days and I try to make sense of the bits and parts that I do hear. Sweet.
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You have to have a sense of humor, right?
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I laughed out loud at this, Molly! The tricks our aging ears play on us can be comical!
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I still laugh every time I think about this. We’re making random Demi Moore references all the time now! lol
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Hahaha!! …my laugh is audible. We are entering the “look at my lips as I speak” phase. Out of the blue the other day, my husband was telling me about the latest hearing aid technology. Hmm.
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Between word retrieval issues and hearing loss, there are certainly some humorous moments!
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I am giggling as I read – my husband and I are not yet at this stage, but I hope when we get there we are still laughing. And, “pregnant pause”? You are very funny!
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Yeah, the “pregnant pause” was irresistible! lol
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I needed this chuckle. Sometimes in my marriage, it’s lack of attention- not bad hearing. But we get the same hilarious results! Laugh when you can!
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I have to say, my husband has come to realize that his slight hearing loss can serve as a wonderful excuse!
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This is great! Humor is so essential in relationships of all types. Thanks for sharing this. Mark
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Thanks, Mark. We’re still chuckling about it!
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Getting older is not for the faint of heart or those lacking a sense of humor I am quickly finding out. You just gotta laugh or it would be depressing. As long as we are together I’m going to keep laughing.
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Thanks for a good old belly laugh! It’s these little things that makes growing old together priceless!
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