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15 Nov 04 - 05:55 AM (#1327127) Subject: BS: Marriage From: MBSLynne I have just been reading Jimmy T's thread about his 35th wedding anniversary and wondering, in these days of frequent partner-changes, how many people have actually managed to stay the course with their original partner. So...who is still on their first marriage, and how long has it been? I'm on my second.....10 years, though we were together for five years before we got married and already had a four year old son. My first only lasted eight months. Love Lynne |
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15 Nov 04 - 05:57 AM (#1327129) Subject: RE: BS: Marriage From: Wilfried Schaum 26 years and still going on ... |
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15 Nov 04 - 06:59 AM (#1327169) Subject: RE: BS: Marriage From: LilyFestre We've been married for 12 years and I am looking forward to many, many, MANY more years!!!!!! :) Michelle |
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15 Nov 04 - 07:00 AM (#1327172) Subject: RE: BS: Marriage From: Grab 9 years this year. Got to make the most of having money now, bcos it's big expensive ring time next year! :-) |
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15 Nov 04 - 07:06 AM (#1327176) Subject: RE: BS: Marriage From: GUEST,Sooz (at work) 31 years at new year! |
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15 Nov 04 - 07:14 AM (#1327183) Subject: RE: BS: Marriage From: Tinker 19 years this month |
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15 Nov 04 - 07:14 AM (#1327184) Subject: RE: BS: Marriage From: George Papavgeris Actually married, 25 and counting. However, as we have been married twice (to each other), in the Greek and English churches, we actually celebrate the time we started going out together (and living together, pretty much from the start) - and that's 31 and counting... |
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15 Nov 04 - 07:28 AM (#1327195) Subject: RE: BS: Marriage From: Scooby Doo I manage 21 before the divorce this year. |
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15 Nov 04 - 08:43 AM (#1327252) Subject: RE: BS: Marriage From: Janie 18 years next week. Janie |
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15 Nov 04 - 08:45 AM (#1327254) Subject: RE: BS: Marriage From: MBSLynne And I guess all you who have posted are first timers too? My cousin has just got married for the FOURTH time! |
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15 Nov 04 - 08:52 AM (#1327258) Subject: RE: BS: Marriage From: Scooby Doo Lynne, Been at your first wedding you cant really count that as a marriage,i have always thought Ted was the only one for your eyes!!!!! |
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15 Nov 04 - 08:57 AM (#1327263) Subject: RE: BS: Marriage From: GUEST My wife is my first (and my last). I am her second. We're going strong at 22 years. |
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15 Nov 04 - 08:58 AM (#1327266) Subject: RE: BS: Marriage From: Rapparee First marriage for both of us. As of this past October 6 it's been 31 years. Seems like 1973 was a pretty good year for Mudcat Marriages. |
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15 Nov 04 - 09:02 AM (#1327271) Subject: RE: BS: Marriage From: Cats at Work Jon and I haven't been married for 17 years which makes it longer than both of us were married to previous husband / wives added together! |
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15 Nov 04 - 09:46 AM (#1327304) Subject: RE: BS: Marriage From: Mooh First for both, 20 years last July. Mooh. |
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15 Nov 04 - 09:51 AM (#1327309) Subject: RE: BS: Marriage From: Dave the Gnome First for both of us (Should be, I was 20 and Mrs was 19!) - 31 years now! Mainly good times. Some better that others:-D A recent survey (where do they get them???) showed, apparantly, that any couple who are unhappy at any point in their marriage but stick it out will become happier than those who reckon it's all wine and roses! Go for the rows and sulks, then get over it! You will last a lifetime then:-) Cheers Dave the Gnome |
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15 Nov 04 - 10:10 AM (#1327318) Subject: RE: BS: Marriage From: Amos Good advice, DtG!! My third, her second, 26 years strong and still breathing!! :D We celebrated when our years together outnumbered all our prior years with anyone else! A |
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15 Nov 04 - 10:20 AM (#1327327) Subject: RE: BS: Marriage From: Dave Hanson Was happily married for 13 years, the other 6 were total shite. how cane someone be in a bad mood for 6 years. eric |
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15 Nov 04 - 10:39 AM (#1327337) Subject: RE: BS: Marriage From: Bee-dubya-ell Susan and I will mark 16 years this coming Friday. That's a year more than wife #1 got and six more than her first hubbie. Looks like we'll hang in there until one of us croaks. |
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15 Nov 04 - 10:56 AM (#1327350) Subject: RE: BS: Marriage From: Sorcha Our first, last and only. 31 yrs. |
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15 Nov 04 - 10:56 AM (#1327351) Subject: RE: BS: Marriage From: Stilly River Sage I was with the now ex for 20 years, married for 12 of them. We are still on good speaking terms. I suppose that is the next best thing! SRS |
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15 Nov 04 - 11:13 AM (#1327366) Subject: RE: BS: Marriage From: mack/misophist Time means little to me, so I've lost track. It's well over 30 years, though, might be getting close to 40. I don't really know or care. Old is old in any context. |
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15 Nov 04 - 11:29 AM (#1327384) Subject: RE: BS: Marriage From: GUEST,Spot the Dog Married in 1969. Makes us 35 and a 'arf. You don't have to work hard at it when you haver a wife as nice as mine. Spot |
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15 Nov 04 - 11:40 AM (#1327396) Subject: RE: BS: Marriage From: jonm Ten years. First time around. I'm one of the younger 'catters, from the survey a couple of weeks back. When your wife is your best friend and your chosen partner for everything - conversation, dancing, music etc. - and when your mutual admiration is such that arguments and disagreements enable you to learn more about the other and strengthen the relationship, you are guaranteed never to be invited on Oprah. She has recently started working where I am, which gives us opportunity for a chat at lunchtime and to actually take a break instead of working through. Nice to relax and talk without the kids for half an hour! The fact that some people I work with think we're having an affair says a lot about us, I guess. |
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15 Nov 04 - 11:45 AM (#1327405) Subject: RE: BS: Marriage From: GUEST,Chief Chaos Married for 16 years now, both of us our first. "Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to be institutionalized?" |
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15 Nov 04 - 11:46 AM (#1327406) Subject: RE: BS: Marriage From: GUEST,Chief Chaos ANother great quote "People who get married are crazy, Thats why they call it a commitment!" |
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15 Nov 04 - 11:58 AM (#1327416) Subject: RE: BS: Marriage From: Don Firth Married in 1977 and doin' just fine. We both play music, we both write, and we both read voraciously. Most compatible. I got lucky. Don Firth |
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15 Nov 04 - 12:30 PM (#1327445) Subject: RE: BS: Marriage From: Bill D tried at age 19...lasted 4+ years...ah, youth! tried at age 26...lasted 11+ years...lots of good and too much bad. got it right at age 42....going on 24 years now and those early 'lives' are more like strange dreams I sort of remember, but I'm not sure that was me in them... |
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15 Nov 04 - 12:42 PM (#1327459) Subject: RE: BS: Marriage From: jimmyt Thanks for the kind words Lynne. 35 today! It helps if you are also best friends, which we are. A good foundation is valuable when rocky times come which they probably do to every couple. Just as I have always been envious of people who always knew what they were going to do with their lives at an early age, I am also appreciative of being one of the lucky ones who has been blessed with a great companion and best friend, who is also my wife. Many people question her mental condition for hanging out with me, and also suggest that she is certainly eligible for sainthood. |
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15 Nov 04 - 12:49 PM (#1327463) Subject: RE: BS: Marriage From: Janie Yeh, first and only. |
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15 Nov 04 - 12:57 PM (#1327468) Subject: RE: BS: Marriage From: Scooby Doo Even though i am divorced we are closer now than we were when we were married for those 21 year.I think marriage can often put a strain on the relationship and its make or break . |
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15 Nov 04 - 01:06 PM (#1327480) Subject: RE: BS: Marriage From: Uncle_DaveO My Beautiful Wife had been married previously, for seven years. I was thirty-three, and had been actively looking for a wife since I was twenty-five. The girls who interested me were either already taken or weren't interested in me. Dorris and I met on July 16, 1963, and on Labor Day she agreed to marry ne. We got married on December 21, 1963. Longest night of the year; we were no fools! We've been ecstatically married for nearly forty-one years now. I told her when we got married that I'd give her seventy years to straighten herself out, and if she hadn't done that in seventy years, out she'd go! Looks like she might make it, too! Dave Oesterreich |
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15 Nov 04 - 01:06 PM (#1327481) Subject: RE: BS: Marriage From: Wesley S Eight years and 2 weeks. My first and only. |
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15 Nov 04 - 01:13 PM (#1327492) Subject: RE: BS: Marriage From: Tannywheeler Married in early Aug., 1966. Still married to same man. We've surprised alot of our relates. As I've learned, in bits and pieces, some family history of each of us I've seen at least 2 other scenarios which, if either had continued its play, would have brought us together almost 10 yrs. earlier than we actually met (which was in college). We might have done jr-hi & high school together, too. Even when we are not in perfect agreement I don't waste time fantasizing about divorce-leaving. I figure I couldn't manage a life that doesn't include Bob. That keeps me in line for the times I'm falling on my knees to thank God for putting Bob in my life -- not believing how lucky I am to know him. (3 kids, 4 grandkids -- how could I leave that!!??) Tw |
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15 Nov 04 - 01:47 PM (#1327530) Subject: RE: BS: Marriage From: frogprince Managed to stay single for almost 42 years, but still got hooked. We're at about 20.9 years now. I have no intention of letting this gal get away, so unless I finally aggrevate her until she actually has to kill me, we're in it for keeps. I write 'em, she sings 'em. |
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15 Nov 04 - 02:00 PM (#1327546) Subject: RE: BS: Marriage From: SINSULL Always a bridesmaid, never a bride. Almost a few times, but they always wanted me to change - "once we're married you will have to stop..." Like that was going to happen. I envy the ones who manage to make it work and pity the ones who didn't know they were happier single. SINS |
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15 Nov 04 - 02:08 PM (#1327559) Subject: RE: BS: Marriage From: MBSLynne What a lot of romantics you all are!! And what sweet comments on your spouses! Now what about all the others?? |
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15 Nov 04 - 02:29 PM (#1327588) Subject: RE: BS: Marriage From: Carly I married at 26, was widowed at 33. My second, and joyful, marriage has so far lasted 18 years. I consider myself to be amazingly fortunate in my husband and my son. |
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15 Nov 04 - 02:35 PM (#1327596) Subject: RE: BS: Marriage From: Peace Married for 27 years. Got divorced. She's a nice woman. I am hard to live with. |
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15 Nov 04 - 02:49 PM (#1327602) Subject: RE: BS: Marriage From: Dahlin 39 years of friendship and caring. Still going strong |
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15 Nov 04 - 03:36 PM (#1327642) Subject: RE: BS: Marriage From: Chris Green I was engaged when I was 21. I didn't know about it until she told a bunch of our mutual mates. Yes, she was a fruitcake. I am now single and 27 (wow, I almost made that sound like a choice!) :) |
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15 Nov 04 - 03:43 PM (#1327656) Subject: RE: BS: Marriage From: GUEST,Chief Chaos Forgot to mention, We got married on April first. That's right, April Fool's Day. We didn't realize it until much later. |
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15 Nov 04 - 04:40 PM (#1327710) Subject: RE: BS: Marriage From: McGrath of Harlow Forty years last July, and she hasn't chucked me out yet. I remember on our 25th anniversary we were out, feeling like rcord breakers, and we ran into a couple we knew, and they'd been married 60 years. |
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15 Nov 04 - 04:47 PM (#1327716) Subject: RE: BS: Marriage From: *Laura* my great grandparents recently celebrated their 70th anniversary! 75 years of being together - and my grandpa (age 97) on the day held her hand and said 'and not a day too long' I want to be like that when I'm in my 90s! |
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15 Nov 04 - 07:35 PM (#1327888) Subject: RE: BS: Marriage From: kendall One month yesterday. I think I got it right this time. |
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15 Nov 04 - 10:19 PM (#1328087) Subject: RE: BS: Marriage From: jets She was 17 when I met her. I married her when she was 20.That was 55yrs ago . Her laugh and her smile are the same as when I first meet her. Therin lies her beauty. Joe |
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15 Nov 04 - 10:27 PM (#1328090) Subject: RE: BS: Marriage From: Gypsy 25 years in June. First time for both of us. We both play, perform, and for the most part, work together. Renewed the contract for another 25 years. Having loads of fun! |
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15 Nov 04 - 10:46 PM (#1328102) Subject: RE: BS: Marriage From: mousethief We're both on our 2nd. Her first lasted 15, mine 10; we've been together 7. |
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15 Nov 04 - 11:22 PM (#1328115) Subject: RE: BS: Marriage From: Padre 29+ years - doesn't seem that long ago. Padre |
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16 Nov 04 - 01:27 AM (#1328188) Subject: RE: BS: Marriage From: JennieG His first - my second - so far we have been married for 28 years. But I am still aged only 29 and some months......I was a child bride...... Cheers JennieG |
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16 Nov 04 - 02:26 AM (#1328229) Subject: RE: BS: Marriage From: dianavan I have two children who have different fathers and were raised by the same step-father. We all know each other and still talk to each other. You figure it out. d |
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16 Nov 04 - 02:27 AM (#1328231) Subject: RE: BS: Marriage From: freda underhill no.1 at 20yrs - 2 yrs, i walked, we are both still friends. no 2 at 23 yrs - 5 yrs, he walked, enough said. my best attempt is 14 years living with a lovely man, we are still good friends and have joint custody of the cat. |
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16 Nov 04 - 03:08 AM (#1328255) Subject: RE: BS: Marriage From: el_punkoid_nouveau My parents were married for 54 years, and knew each other for six months short of 60 - the nurse at the hospital the night my father died asked my mother how they managed to stay together that long. "You pick the right one" was her reply. epn |
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16 Nov 04 - 03:13 AM (#1328256) Subject: RE: BS: Marriage From: MBSLynne Someone should take some of the things people have been saying here and make it into a song..... |
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16 Nov 04 - 08:42 AM (#1328458) Subject: RE: BS: Marriage From: GUEST,KateG 21 years - a good start don't you think? Despite the fact that he was 34 and I was 30 when we married, I'm still counting on celebrating our 50th and 60th anniversary. After all, I figure that anyone who's response when I express interest in a new instrument is "You should get one" is a keeper...and I try to remain a keeper myself, by not taking him up on it TOO often. |
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16 Nov 04 - 10:34 AM (#1328595) Subject: RE: BS: Marriage From: Fibula Mattock Was supposed to be getting married trhis year... still missing the ex-fiancé... Still, I've just bought a house so I get to live on my own and that's pretty damn useful for a contrary, opinionated cow like meself. |
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16 Nov 04 - 11:25 AM (#1328666) Subject: RE: BS: Marriage From: Dipsodeb 23yrs, 1 marriage and still going strong I never realised I had that much dedication it must be LOVE ;') Silver anniversary in 2yrs!! |