Humour is the fingerprint of the human soul

When you are checking out a new man, wondering if he may be Mr Right, don't treat humour as a trivial diversion. Treat it as an important clue to compatibility. Because humour is such a instinctive thing, it is hard to fake. People calcualte a lot of their moves, but humour tends to be less planned. So it is more revealing.

Can he laugh at himself? If he does something stupid and you satirise it perfectly, does he dissolve into life-threatening laughter and beg for mercy? If so, score one for the two of you. If his pride won't let you mock his weak points, look out. A man who needs to sustain a too-perfect image of himself, will need you to help him sustain it. And that will mean that you'll have to lie, you'll be increasing trapped in a pretend world and you'll become afraid of the truth, like he is. Never forget that laughter is your right. No one can tell you what is or isn't funny - your deepest identity depends on it.