Maybe it is. I come from a family (parents, sibs, most exttended family) that laughed a whole lot, and fought too but mostly laughed even during fighting. All anyone had to do was crack some joke and the whole fight seemed so silly.
I can be on fire angry and whomever I’m angry with makes me laugh and there goes all that anger. I do it to my oldest brother all the time. He’s a PITA but he can’t help but laugh. My husband does it to me.
It’s definitely the magic ingredient for me. And for my husband so it works out well for us. Sounds like you guys have that too.
You wouldn’t - by chance - be irish would you?
You just described my upbringing - and my marriage too!
Except I don’t have a brother.
Our humor was more on the sarcastic side.
You were NOT ALLOWED to have sensitive feelings - or you did not survive.