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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNext month hubby and I will celebrate 25 years of marriage HOW long have you been married?
28 years together.
It hasn't always been perfect but we are very happy.
It is amazing the number of people that tell us how incredible it is that we have been married that long.
Our marriage has lasted longer than any of his families original marriages.
My mom and dad were married until my dad died of leukemia 3 months to the day of DX. They were almost married 50 years.
We are not celebrating until spring break when we are taking ourselves and the kids on a cruise. I can't wait!!!
hack89
(39,171 posts)peacebird
(14,195 posts)Response to demtenjeep (Original post)
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Roselma
(540 posts)I hope you and your family enjoy the cruise.
elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)frogmarch
(12,158 posts)will have our 50th next August. As always, we'll celebrate it at the Sturgis Rally.
ROFF
(219 posts)47 years.
JustAnotherGen
(31,866 posts)Took him 20 years to find me. ;/)
Tikki
(14,559 posts)CONGRATULATIONS....
Been 'a couple' for 50 years.
Love the Guy madly.
Tikki
trumad
(41,692 posts)Throd
(7,208 posts)shraby
(21,946 posts)The first 48 are the hardest.
We went together 2 years before that, so we've been together for 55 years.
In October.
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)Kingofalldems
(38,469 posts)a kennedy
(29,696 posts)So I hear ya.... 3rd and 2nd marriages.... And I think this is it for us. 😊
cloudbase
(5,524 posts)Congratulations!
Rookie!
ileus
(15,396 posts)this time...
But I also realize marriage is a ever evolving relationship. I've known several of the "they're the perfect couples" to get divorced in the 10-25 or 30 years of marriage range.
My neighbor is the perfect example he's 55, he was married for 25 years before she got tired of him working 7 days a week.
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)marlakay
(11,484 posts)Should have waited until I was older to marry 1 & 2 I was very immature and not sure of myself.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)Can't believe how fast that time went.
Lochloosa
(16,067 posts)TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)and I can honestly say I'd do it all over again.
NEOhiodemocrat
(912 posts)Wishing you many more happy years together!
Old Codger
(4,205 posts)49 years and 25 weeks
NEOhiodemocrat
(912 posts)Hope you are planning a nice celebration.
Old Codger
(4,205 posts)Thank You
She wants to dance a jig on 50th
demtenjeep
(31,997 posts)do you have any secrets?
napi21
(45,806 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,681 posts)rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)Igel
(35,337 posts)We got a late start.
Parents were married for over 50.
Half-brother for nearly 40 (he's a widower). His parents for perhaps 3. His grandparents, for many a decade.
Half-sister for nearly 50 now. Her parents for perhaps 3. (And her mother had had 8 marriages and 7 husbands last time I asked her about it 30 years ago.)
Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)Our families married us off at 12 for political reasons. No, not really.
Uben
(7,719 posts)Wonderful woman, died at age 60.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)"life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
How would you like the details of how you live out your life put up to a vote???
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)Hissyspit
(45,788 posts)Congrats, demtenjeep and spouse!
DesertFlower
(11,649 posts)away 2-1/2 years ago.
GeorgeGist
(25,322 posts)KatyMan
(4,209 posts)Going on a 7 day cruise to the Caribbean!
cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)eom
fredamae
(4,458 posts)livetohike
(22,157 posts)all these years have gone by .
Thirties Child
(543 posts)We'll celebrate 58 years on February 3, the day after my 80th birthday.
Sancho
(9,070 posts)SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)jwirr
(39,215 posts)have waited another 9 months and I would have been getting his social security. My lawyer did not say a word about it. Have never even thought about getting married again.
frazzled
(18,402 posts)Still laughing and still in love.
(My parents are coming up on 68 this month, so 40 seems like nothing!)
madokie
(51,076 posts)it has been 43 years since I first told her that when I get married I want it to be with her. You see I came home from the war bug nuts and knew at the time that there was no way I could survive a family life so I took a hiatus for 19 years and got my shit together and finally my and I believe her dream did come true.
ETA: I love my Wife
shenmue
(38,506 posts)Freddie
(9,273 posts)Always good but I think happier now that the kids are grown. I've seen couples who split up at that point because they realize the only thing keeping them together was the kids. Although I see the kids & our 2 little grandkids all the time I'm loving the empty nest!
cilla4progress
(24,760 posts)celebrating 34 with a road trip through our neighboring state of Oregon. Still a little up and down but less to fight over now!
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)Known each other 25 years and 6 months.
NEOhiodemocrat
(912 posts)My sister and brother in law married 6 months after they met and just had their 50th in August! I guess when you know you know! Enjoy your day tomorrow.
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)And that is exactly what we always say: when you know, you know.
newfie11
(8,159 posts)Raine
(30,540 posts)otohara
(24,135 posts)#1 husband 4 years.
logosoco
(3,208 posts)Next May we have been together 35 years.
My parents were divorced after 6 years, and my dad was married 4 times in his life. But this one seems to be working out okay!
Have a great celebratory cruise~
eridani
(51,907 posts)Will think of something special to do next year for the 45th.
KansDem
(28,498 posts)If all goes as planned, there won't be a 27th
spanone
(135,859 posts)mwdem
(4,031 posts)We still see each other as we did when we first met.
RebelOne
(30,947 posts)but there was no one I wanted spend the rest of my life with, so I opted to stay single and do not regret it. I have had a great life with no ties.
annabanana
(52,791 posts)when I lost him last May.
I thank God for every minute.
City Lights
(25,171 posts)Been together 27 years.
Congratulations on your milestone and have a blast on your cruise when you go!
napi21
(45,806 posts)I remember when I was a little girl and mt grandparents had their 50th aniv. It sounded like SUCH A LONG TIME! I never knew anyone else who was married that long.
3rdwaydem
(277 posts)Lugnut
(9,791 posts)DH and I will be married 48 years on Oct. 15th.
Blanks
(4,835 posts)Second time for both of us.
onethatcares
(16,178 posts)my wife was recently diagnosed with bileary duct cancer and I love her so much I don't have the words.
We are hoping to celebrate our 45th with a cruise in February 2015.
Give the one you love as much love as they can stand, give them as many kisses as you possibly can,
let them know every day.
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)Hard to believe!
indepat
(20,899 posts)csziggy
(34,137 posts)My parents were married 67 years and ended only when my Dad died a little over a year ago.
My husband's parents were married 22 years and it only ended because his Dad died at an early age.
Bettie
(16,120 posts)We lived together for three years before that, so we've been together about as long as you guys!
virgdem
(2,126 posts)At least this marriage lasted longer than the first (9 years). Still very happily married.
drray23
(7,637 posts)It has been 10 yrs and 11 weeks.
Greybnk48
(10,171 posts)It flew by!
Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)But our relationship started in 1963. We lost track of each other after 1968, reunited in 2000 and got married in June 2003.
Adsos Letter
(19,459 posts)3catwoman3
(24,029 posts)Met 4 years before that.
politicat
(9,808 posts)99% happy.
The major accommodations: Spouse is forever barred from using my power tools or any metal scissors in the house (him + power tools = trip to urgent care; metal scissors are fabric only) and me accepting that we will always have massive amounts of computing power...
We're even handling the lack of hot water heater this week pretty well.
No Vested Interest
(5,167 posts)He had a good heart and we had so many good times.
I still miss my guy.
Congratulations on your 25 years of marriage and may your see another 25, and then another!
I remember people commenting to us as well that they thought it was amazing/wonderful/incredible, etc. that we had been married so long.
It wasn't so amazing/wonderful/incredible to us because we couldn't imagine any other life.
ballyhoo
(2,060 posts)SoCalDem
(103,856 posts)Inspired
(3,957 posts)Not all bliss but I'm glad we stuck it out. We are worth it.
tularetom
(23,664 posts)And don't even ask about our daughter who was born the day before JFK was shot.
bluedeer71
(15 posts)In October it will be 43 years for my wife and I. As you said, it hasn't always been perfect, but we are very happy. I am so glad that we found each other and that we have grown together over all these years. I wish you the best!
lastlib
(23,268 posts)as of August. Mom's parents were married for 54 years, her brother made 55 years, two sisters passed 50 years, and her other sister made 46 years. Guess it could run in the family, but only my sister (out of us five kids) made it past 25 years, now going on 38.
ReRe
(10,597 posts)... but we never celebrate it.
badtoworse
(5,957 posts)orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)Forty years of joy .
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)LittleGirl
(8,287 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)I may be eligible for parole
gladium et scutum
(808 posts)DamnYankeeInHouston
(1,365 posts)jopacaco
(133 posts)Best thing I ever did!. It is also our grandson's birthday, 2 this year.
missmo1951
(21 posts)Time flies!
haydukelives
(1,229 posts)on 12/26. thats right the day after Christmas in my anniversary.
12/26/1976
Solly Mack
(90,779 posts)KinMd
(966 posts)LibDemAlways
(15,139 posts)he was 22. Very young by today's standards. We have 1 daughter born just in time to help us celebrate our 20th anniversary! She's 21, a college senior, and keeps us young. No regrets.
MFM008
(19,818 posts)I congratulate anyone whose been together long enough to see a movie together. My parents lasted 43 till dad passed but I could never keep one going long.
Snarkoleptic
(5,998 posts)mnhtnbb
(31,401 posts)pizzadave
(46 posts)First wife...1 year
Second wife...15 years and counting.
BTW...Ex-wife and I still share the same anniversary. She got married to her second husband that same day I got remarried.
And we each have a first daughter named Grace.
Ecumenist
(6,086 posts)Been close friends 23 years.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)drynberg
(1,648 posts)The first 25 were the toughest, although we ain't done yet...
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)April 14, 1973---April 12, 2014.
unionthug777
(740 posts)18 years.
NEOhiodemocrat
(912 posts)Oktober
(1,488 posts)Love that military lifestyle...
NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)My parents have been married for 45 years.
liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)DreamGypsy
(2,252 posts)I met my future wife in 1975 through an ad posted on a bulletin board at the Stanford student union. She was advertising a room for rent in her house. She was recently divorced, with 2 kids who stayed part time with her, and although she was working full time in a marketing position at a biotech company, she needed the rent money. I was in my second year of grad school and I needed a place to stay. So, we lived together for two years without...uh...living together.
In the winter of 1977 we planned a weekend cross-country skiing trip with some of her friends. The other people had to cancel but we decided to go anyway. After a fine and tiring day of skiing we shared a couple of drinks (I had brought my friend Jack Daniels along). It was a bit of a surprise to both of us, but we...uh...deepened our relationship that evening.
The living situation at her house changed after our weekend skiing. However, I continued to pay rent until 1983 when we bought a house together. By this time I had left the PhD program at Stanford and was working at a computer start-up. She had also left her job and was doing consulting to pay the bills, while she was starting her own company.
In early June 1989, with a small group of friends and family in attendance, we were married in the rose garden that we had planted in front of our house.
In 1991, we sold our house, left California, and moved to Oregon where we started a blueberry farm and, in 1992, had a house built, while continuing to work our jobs by telecommuting and traveling.
So, 25 years married plus 12 to 14 years together.
.
mulsh
(2,959 posts)Duppers
(28,125 posts)We married too young and pure stubbornness held us together for the first ~30.
nc4bo
(17,651 posts)CONGRATULATIONS to you and hubby!!
Don't care what anyone else says, it IS an accomplishment.
No, it's not easy but sometimes relationships do work out well.
Kablooie
(18,638 posts)29 years ago.
Damn but we are a bunch of old farts here, aren't we?
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)met someone else he decided he'd rather be with.
I now have a great new life in another city (Santa Fe) some 800 miles from where he still lives.
notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)old guy
(3,283 posts)oneshooter
(8,614 posts)Mom and Dad were married 52 years, till he up and died.
choie
(4,111 posts)tinymontgomery
(2,584 posts)30 years come Nov. 2 years together before we married.
s-cubed
(1,385 posts)kimbutgar
(21,177 posts)My parents were married 50 years in March and in October the same year my Dad died of leukemia.
I would marry my husband again in a heartbeat.
Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)Counting the years we lived together (2), 27 years.
I've been with her half my life now.
The place where we first met is now an abandoned building.
CaptainTruth
(6,600 posts)& they're still in good health. Dad plows snow on the tractor & roto-tills the garden at 92 years young. A couple years ago I visited them for Christmas & dad was outside with a sledgehammer & a wedge splitting wood for the stove ... at age 90. My grandfather lived by himself on the farm & was in good health until he passed away at 94 sitting in his chair watching TV.
I REALLY, REALLY hope I got a lot of their genes!!!
mokawanis
(4,451 posts)When my dad died last year he and my mom had been married for 61 years.
lady lib
(2,933 posts)n/t
Stellar
(5,644 posts)RIP.
littlewolf
(3,813 posts)it doesn't seem that long ago. I got to pick the wedding day.
her birthday is Jan 19, and our wedding was Jun 19. every 6 months
I am buying a gift.
Howler
(4,225 posts)October 7th
demtenjeep
(31,997 posts)so many with so many years.
So cool.
footinmouth
(747 posts)Only marriage for both of us
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)After the 7 year itch (recall the movie if you've never seen it), we're inseparable.
phylny
(8,385 posts)brooklynite
(94,698 posts)Although she says she doesn't remember.....
TorchTheWitch
(11,065 posts)and like it that way
PasadenaTrudy
(3,998 posts)Made it to 50 without taking the plunge. Still not interested.