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Phentex

(16,334 posts)
Wed Mar 21, 2012, 11:25 AM Mar 2012

Breaking: I have been married 20 years today! **********

How did this happen?

People are skeptical when I say it hasn't been work. The years have flown by and I still feel like we are a couple of kids playing house. We aren't perfect but seem to be perfect for each other.

You know you've been married 20 years when you plan to have lunch instead of dinner for your anniversary (kids' activities and my early bedtime mean dinner would be a pain!) I'll still have some champagne before bedtime.
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Breaking: I have been married 20 years today! ********** (Original Post) Phentex Mar 2012 OP
i am there with you seabeyond Mar 2012 #1
Thank you!... Phentex Mar 2012 #6
Congrats! OriginalGeek Mar 2012 #2
Thanks! Phentex Mar 2012 #7
Congrats on 20 years, my dear Phentex! CaliforniaPeggy Mar 2012 #3
Yes, I feel it... Phentex Mar 2012 #11
Congrats and have a wonderful lunch and nightcap siligut Mar 2012 #4
Thank you! Phentex Mar 2012 #8
Three more pipi_k Mar 2012 #5
Thanks! Phentex Mar 2012 #9
Congrats to you two. Hope you enjoyed your lunch. applegrove Mar 2012 #10
Thank you... Phentex Mar 2012 #13
Congrats!! And welcome to the club!! JoePhilly Mar 2012 #12
LOL! He has NCAA plans downtown this weekend... Phentex Mar 2012 #14
NCAA, oh you will LOVE this!!! JoePhilly Mar 2012 #15
Congrats. madinmaryland Mar 2012 #16
 

seabeyond

(110,159 posts)
1. i am there with you
Wed Mar 21, 2012, 11:28 AM
Mar 2012

18 yrs. hubby and i are shocked, i tell you, that it is so easy. years went by and we had a conversation. it is suppose to be work. it isnt. it is easy.

and no, people dont believe so it was good reading your post

congrats.... enjoy

CaliforniaPeggy

(149,678 posts)
3. Congrats on 20 years, my dear Phentex!
Wed Mar 21, 2012, 11:31 AM
Mar 2012

Here's to many, many more wonderful anniversaries!

You two fit together like the pieces of a well-worn puzzle, and that makes it easy...

Cheers!

siligut

(12,272 posts)
4. Congrats and have a wonderful lunch and nightcap
Wed Mar 21, 2012, 11:59 AM
Mar 2012

Love the part about not being perfect, but being perfect for each other.

Phentex

(16,334 posts)
8. Thank you!
Wed Mar 21, 2012, 04:22 PM
Mar 2012

My mother was so skeptical about him at first. Now, she likes him better than she likes me.

pipi_k

(21,020 posts)
5. Three more
Wed Mar 21, 2012, 12:37 PM
Mar 2012

years than I have with Mr Pipi...will be 17 years this Saturday.

The longest I've ever been married (less than five years each the first two times)...

and yeah...I get the whole lunch instead of dinner thing. We'll probably do a lunch/dinner thing Saturday around 4 PM.

Anyway, Happy Anniversary, and many more!

Phentex

(16,334 posts)
9. Thanks!
Wed Mar 21, 2012, 04:23 PM
Mar 2012

Looks like third time's the charm for you!

I thought 15 years was a long time. 20 makes me feel old.

JoePhilly

(27,787 posts)
12. Congrats!! And welcome to the club!!
Wed Mar 21, 2012, 04:25 PM
Mar 2012

We postpone our Anniversary dinners, until the next convienient weekend.

And we celebrate the actual day by enjoying our three kids ... and our joke is that, if not for them, we'd have killed each other by now!!

Phentex

(16,334 posts)
14. LOL! He has NCAA plans downtown this weekend...
Wed Mar 21, 2012, 04:30 PM
Mar 2012

and I am helping a friend with her daughter's birthday party. Old farts we are!

Thank you!

JoePhilly

(27,787 posts)
15. NCAA, oh you will LOVE this!!!
Wed Mar 21, 2012, 05:13 PM
Mar 2012

So in the first week of March, we took a week vacation in DC (we met there way way back in 1989).

We took the kids (10, 12, 18). The ACC tournament started and UNC played on Friday ... my wife and son (18) wanted to go watch UNC, so I took my daughters (10,12) to the Natural History Museum, while my wife and son went to a sports bar.

That is how our family vacations work.

madinmaryland

(64,933 posts)
16. Congrats.
Wed Mar 21, 2012, 05:14 PM
Mar 2012

We just passed our 15th a couple of months ago, 3 days after I got let go from my job.

Not to worry, I have since found new work.


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