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According to the Vulnerability-Stress-Adaptation (VSA) Model, the vulnerabilities individuals bring and the adaptive behaviors individuals use can diminish or enhance the effects of a stressful experience on an individual’s relationship satisfaction. Thus, guided by the VSA model, our study examined how pregnancy intention and humor use affected relationship satisfaction during the stressful transition to parenthood. The goals of the study were to examine the within-time association of pregnancy intention, humor, and relationship satisfaction, and then to investigate how humor and pregnancy intention were associated with changes in relationship satisfaction over time. Results showed that for men and women there was a positive association within-time for their own use of affiliative humor and their own relationship satisfaction. 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