hankswan

Married to my best friend, lover, partner, and companion for 59 years (60 years on 3 Oct 2019) It is what you make of it. A strong marriage should be worked on, tolerant to each others good and bad things, giving and taking with reasonable measure on each side. And don't forget it is a work in progress for the whole time of the marriage. YOU MUST WORK AT IT from both sides of the marriage vows. You do remember those vows? You might want to re-read them from time to time.

NewGuy

False for me. Our 55 years of marriage are a testimony to my wife's bad judgement.

kerry12 Loc: Harrisburg, Pa.

jpgto Loc: North East Tennessee

raymondh Loc: Walker, MI

Julian Loc: Sarasota, FL

False! Speak for yourself...

Dixie Native Loc: Leicester, NC

After reading all the comments, finally one with a sense of humor. It was funny and meant to be. My bride and I have been inseparable for 40 years plus dated 6 through college. All rosy, hell no! All in the outhouse, hell no!
Life does seem to get in the way and plans don't always work out. But if it's a union meant to be, you come out stronger and closer.

I think the best summation, and reality if most folks would be truthful, can be found in the words of this song. By the Civil Wars title Dust to Dust. Words are included.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgb05OvtHBw

Dave H2

She is my best friend of 57 years and tolerates my recently rekindled photography interest.
Dave

Flash Falasca Loc: Beverly Hills, Florida

Marriage is like a bathtub, not so hot once you get use to it !!

GeneV Loc: Lampasas, Texas

In the 20+ years of producing wedding video albums I always passed that advice to the grooms. Now after just short of 56 years I still try to remember it for myself.

Gene V

jimjjc Loc: Wisconsin

Coming up on 48 years soon. My wife tells everyone she is going to leave me once she knows I am 100% miserable. But for now she stays because she thinks I still have a shred of happiness...

AirWalter Loc: Tipp City, Ohio

FALSE, big time!!! My buddy came over one day after work. I was sitting in the driveway looking at my broken 17 foot outboard. He ask what I was going to do tonight. I said, I guess sit here and look at this stupid boat! He said, no your not; go take a shower and then call me; you are going on a blind date tonight! I said, like hell I am. He said, I'll be waiting on your call and left. I sat there for a few minutes and said to myself, what the hell, it can't be any worse than setting here with this damn boat. So when the four of us met up at my buddies girlfriends house I walked in and noticed that it was a girl that caught my eye at the bowling ally where we bowled in a league every Friday night. The four of us had gone into the restaurant after bowling one night to have a sandwich and a beer and just shot some bull. After listening to her I wasn't impressed with what I heard, so I kind of forgot about her. Now, here we were on a blind date that I found out later, she didn't want to go on either. The blind date went pretty well, hell who am I kidding. I fell in love so fast my head was spinning. Found out later, she felt the same way. I took her to the Cincinnati Reds baseball game the next day, and we never spent a day after that, that we weren't together. She was at my house one evening in my garage one night watching me work on something I was building, and she said, "You know, we need to do something about this,, because I need to get some rest". I almost fell off of my stool. I looked up at her, and she was smiling at me, and I said, "are you suggesting that we should, maybe get married". She just kept smiling - - - - yep, we got married, had two children, boy and a girl, 37+ years of marriage, and then May 2, 2015, cancer took my wife, my best friend, the one I was meant to be with, God called her home. Now I'm just sitting around looking stupid again. When I would go to the cemetery every evening I would see couples out for their evening walk, and I would notice that hardly anyone held each others hand. Don't ever stop holding your wife's hand, or getting her flowers just because you love her, because when one of you is gone, - - - - it's too late. And when you walk into that empty house you will find out that the silence is deafening! I'm still wearing my wedding ring and I took a little extra ring that I had bought for her that was engraved "Bob and Carol Forever", just because it said something to me when I saw it advertised, and put it on my little finger next to my wedding ring. If someone doesn't like the fact that I still have her ring on they will have to remove it after I am called home . I can't wait to be with her again, God willing.

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Carusoswi

I think most posters here appreciate that the OP's question was suggested with tongue in cheek. OTOH, in responding, we are pulled back to reality, and, in reading every post, I found not one critical of the OP in asking the question. When asked how long I've been married, I often respond with "45 years is a long time to hold a grudge." That is also in jest.
According to my in-laws, I came from the wrong side of the track. Our first wedding was called off as they tried to break us up. They wanted me to undergo a vasectomy so that 'our' children would be the product of top quality genes. It was hell, but I prevailed.
We loved each other, and true love would not be defeated.
Both sets of parents are gone, now. May they rest in peace.
Our children are both happily married. We are blessed with four grandchildren, and I regularly apply lessons of 'how not to be' as a father-in-law and a grandfather to assure that my children's marriages and families can flourish free of the sorts of angst that my wife and I endured at the hands of her parents.
My wife and I still live together as daily companions, and I regularly exhort my doctors to keep this body of mine running effectively for another 40 years as I have much to accomplish as a father, grandfather, and loving husband.
My wife has quirks that truly annoy me, but I always note that they are outnumbered by her more numerous redeeming qualities (I am certain she could say the same about me).
I cannot imagine life without her.

Caruso

donaldw

False. I have been married to my best friend for 24 years now and I love her more each day. I am so blessed.

Abo

LOL