BS: Married 80 years - neat story!

Subject: BS: Married 80 years - neat story!
From: katlaughing
Date: 02 Feb 10 - 06:21 PM

80th Anniversary. That's fifty years more than my Rog and me. She is 103 and he is 97. They sound like really beautiful souls. Well worth the read, imo. Here is her last quote in the article:


"Love, love, love each other," she added. "It's beautiful, beautiful to be old and still be in love at our age."

Subject: RE: BS: Married 80 years - neat story!
From: lefthanded guitar
Date: 02 Feb 10 - 06:37 PM

In a time when many people maintain their cars longer than their romances, it's a heartwarming story.

Subject: RE: BS: Married 80 years - neat story!
From: gnu
Date: 02 Feb 10 - 06:44 PM

sniff

Subject: RE: BS: Married 80 years - neat story!
From: jacqui.c
Date: 02 Feb 10 - 07:19 PM

Wow! What a wonderful story!

Subject: RE: BS: Married 80 years - neat story!
From: John on the Sunset Coast
Date: 02 Feb 10 - 07:36 PM

Dang--I was going to brag about 42 years tomorrow. I feel so inadequate now. Let's see, can I live to 108? Naah.

Good for them.

Subject: RE: BS: Married 80 years - neat story!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 02 Feb 10 - 09:52 PM

I bet before they racked up all those years and got to sounding so wise, their marriage had a buncha ups and downs, some ugly moments, etc. I think the point is they stuck, and got to where they are NOW.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Married 80 years - neat story!
From: Beer
Date: 02 Feb 10 - 10:19 PM

Thanks Kat. You sure do find some good stories.
Beer (adrien)

Subject: RE: BS: Married 80 years - neat story!
From: frogprince
Date: 02 Feb 10 - 10:56 PM

We'll only be 111 and 121 on our 80th anniversry.

Subject: RE: BS: Married 80 years - neat story!
From: mousethief
Date: 02 Feb 10 - 11:05 PM

Great story! Brought a tear to my eye.

O..O
=o=

Subject: RE: BS: Married 80 years - neat story!
From: katlaughing
Date: 02 Feb 10 - 11:22 PM

frogprince, hahaha!

Adrien, you are most welcome. My son posted the link on facebook.

I loved these words of wisdom, too:

"I never did get angry with him," she said. "He don't let you get angry. He'll just be grinning all the time. He's just a jolly, jolly man."

"The key to marital success, she said, smiling, "is treat your husband like you want him to treat you and make sure you have two rolling pins - keep one on his head and the other to roll out the dough."

"Nothing, they both said, is more important than prayer, love and unity. That, and a little kissing on the sofa, when the children aren't around. "She'd sit in my lap, sit right here and kiss and go on," he said."

Subject: RE: BS: Married 80 years - neat story!
From: Mr Red
Date: 03 Feb 10 - 10:02 AM

I seem to come unstuck at the 9 year level. 80 years eh?

As I have heard it said - families that play together, stay together.

Subject: RE: BS: Married 80 years - neat story!
From: EBarnacle
Date: 03 Feb 10 - 12:21 PM

Gee, my folks are only together for 66 years this June. Mere yout'!

Subject: RE: BS: Married 80 years - neat story!
From: katlaughing
Date: 03 Feb 10 - 02:35 PM

Wow! That is fantastic, EB!

Subject: RE: BS: Married 80 years - neat story!
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 03 Feb 10 - 05:06 PM

I used to know someone who had celebrated two silver weddings. Widowed and re-married.

Subject: RE: BS: Married 80 years - neat story!
From: Folkiedave
Date: 03 Feb 10 - 05:30 PM

Two people got divorced at 95 and 72 years of marriage.

"Why you doing that" said the judge?

"Well" said the man " it hasn't been good for a while " so we thought we'd wait until the children died.

Subject: RE: BS: Married 80 years - neat story!
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 03 Feb 10 - 05:58 PM

Paul Harvey, used to have a segment of his radio show called 'The Tournament of Roses', where he read off the names of couples who had been married for X amount of long years. Later, he wrote a book, of the same title. In the course of writing the book, he went back, and interviewed as many as he could, from the names of people of whom he had listed on his show, through the years. He asked the question, of those people, "What do you think was the biggest reason you think keep marriages together so long?"

He took the two answers that came up the most.....you know what they were?

A sense of God, and our relationship to Him....and a sense of humor!

Next: While in a remote area, near a lake in Colorado, I had needs to use a phone, for town was pretty far down the road. I came to a small home, in a little cluster, of them. I walked onto the porch and knocked on the screen door, and while I was waiting, noticed on a board, the name 'McCormicks'. I figured this was going to be tough...a stranger knocking at the door, asking to use the phone. After a brief pause, the inner door opened, and it was a small older woman.
"Can I help you?"

Yes, thank you. My name is______-_____, and I was wondering if it would be possible to use your phone for a moment...its local"

"Oh sure, just a moment"

After a small ordeal to and it through the door, and clearing the phone cord over the door knob, I thanked her, and proceeded to make my call. when I was finished, I tapped on the screen door again, told her I was finished, and thanked her. As we were passing the phone back in to her, I told her that I noticed her name was Scots/Irish, and if she liked Celtic music.

"Oh, yes..I used to sing quite a bit, but that was years ago..i haven't done much in a few years..but Oh, how I loved to sing.."

"Here, do you have a CD player?"

"Why yes, but the one in the car is better"

I figured it was already cool of her to even answer the door to a stranger, let alone invite that same stranger in her house...so she came out and opened her Honda SUV, in the driveway and I gave her the CD, which she put in the player, and after a few songs, began to tear up swells of tears in here eyes.

I looked at her compassionately, and asked, Is everything okay?"

"What are you DOING to me?", she choked back.

Alarmed, that I had offended her, or something, I started to apologize, she waved her hand in front of her face, as if either waving me off, or discouraging a persistent gnat.

"No, no..you just have no idea what this song means to me."

"Why? Have you heard it before?", I offered, figuring she was familiar with it.

"No, but it says so much....exactly how I feel"

"John (not his real name, but for privacy's sake), is inside..we've been married for 64 years now, it doesn't seem all that long..and what would I have done without him!...I love that man!"

At that my eyes were swimming under a pool of water, myself as this was playing in the background:...(Ohh Amos, where's your 'blue clicky' machine?)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ym8pZhOPDI

Swear to God, true story. Thought I'd share the sentiment with you.

Warmest Regards,
GfS

Subject: RE: BS: Married 80 years - neat story!
From: Beer
Date: 03 Feb 10 - 09:43 PM

Like the way you did that frogprince. We got married in the year of our Lord 1971. So to be married 80 years would put us in 2051. I don't think so. But than again if I look at my age and the good lady I would be 104 and she would be 101. possible I guess.
Adrien

Subject: RE: BS: Married 80 years - neat story!
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 04 Feb 10 - 04:39 AM

Thank you, oh magical and mystical supplier of 'Blue Clicky's'

GfS