Everyone relishes that spark of falling in love for the first time.

But, much as they try, few married couples get to feel it all over again. Unlike gobsmacked Jason Mortensen.

Dosed up on morphine for a hernia operation, the love-struck American couldn’t believe his eyes when he caught sight of the woman by his bed.

Gawping, he had a million questions: ‘Did the doctor send you? Man you are eye candy! Woah. You’re the prettiest woman I’ve ever seen.

‘Are you a model? Who are you? What’s your name?’

The answer blew his mind.

‘I’m your wife,’ she giggled.

In a video that has now amassed more than 240,000 views, Mr Mortensen’s jaw drops. And he’s got a fair few more questions to ask.

‘You’re my wife?!’ the former missionary gasps, ‘Holy sh**! Dang. How long?’

Candice Mortensen, the blonde beauty behind the lens, tries to encourage her husband of six years to eat a cracker as he recovers in an unidentified hospital.

But he is too distracted.

‘It’s hard baby, it’s hard… Do we call each other baby?’

Dumbfounded, he clutches his head: ‘Man I hit the jackpot!’

Now recovered, Mr Mortensen, Vice President of sales at Oltuse Pharmaceuticals in Orem, Utah, is sticking to his every word.

Commenters flooded to praise the ‘husband of the year’ on YouTube after the video was posted on August 30.