BS: Married 40 years!

Subject: BS: Married 40 years!
From: Suffet
Date: 22 Jun 09 - 08:30 AM

Greetings:

Happy anniversary to us!

Marilyn Levine and I were married June 22, 1969, in the backyard of her parents' house in Babylon, Long Island, New York. There is not much more to say other than we hope to be around to celebrate in another 40 years, at which time we will both be 102 years old.

You can see a picture from our wedding at this page. Farther down the page there is a photo taken of us just two years ago.

My song The October Waltz tells the story of how we met at the Washington Square Methodist Church in New York City just about eight months earlier. Click here to listen to the song on-line or to download it for free. What two Jewish people were doing in church is a long story, too long to tell here. Suffice to say it had something to do with the anti-war movement.

Marilyn and I are now off to take our morning walk.

--- Steve

Subject: RE: BS: Married 40 years!
From: Midchuck
Date: 22 Jun 09 - 08:38 AM

Beat Ya! 42 years and four days.

Peter

Subject: RE: BS: Married 40 years!
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 22 Jun 09 - 08:57 AM

Congratulations. We've been married 33 years and can still make each other laugh.

Subject: RE: BS: Married 40 years!
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Jun 09 - 09:01 AM

36 years this coming October. We're catching up to you and in just five years we'll be married longer than you have.

Subject: RE: BS: Married 40 years!
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 22 Jun 09 - 09:02 AM

Congratulations Steve and Marilyn!

Subject: RE: BS: Married 40 years!
From: artbrooks
Date: 22 Jun 09 - 09:35 AM

Congratulations!! Our 40th comes up next March.

Subject: RE: BS: Married 40 years!
From: Newport Boy
Date: 22 Jun 09 - 09:37 AM

Good to hear of so many long marriages. We reach 50 years on 22 August. Somehow I doubt we'll manage another 50.

Anne's had her morning swim and I've had my bike ride. We're together weeding the border this afternoon.

Phil

Subject: RE: BS: Married 40 years!
From: John on the Sunset Coast
Date: 22 Jun 09 - 09:51 AM

41 and a half. The first year was GReaaatte! How she's put up with the other forty is beyond me. (ka ching) But we persevere as we head into that euphemistic sunset hand in hand.

Anyway, congrats to Steve and Marilyn...and to all of us who really believe those words we said so long ago to someone we could mean them for.

Subject: RE: BS: Married 40 years!
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 22 Jun 09 - 10:15 AM

congratulations from someone who had almost finished school when you married!

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Married 40 years!
From: gnu
Date: 22 Jun 09 - 12:27 PM

Congrats!

Subject: RE: BS: Married 40 years!
From: Gurney
Date: 22 Jun 09 - 05:07 PM

36 and still going.

Interesting logic, Rapaire.

Subject: RE: BS: Married 40 years!
From: katlaughing
Date: 22 Jun 09 - 05:51 PM

Congratulations! We will be at 30 next March...longer than I have been with anyone else in my whole life!:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Married 40 years!
From: Terry McDonald
Date: 22 Jun 09 - 05:54 PM

Forty three years in September.

Subject: RE: BS: Married 40 years!
From: Rabbi-Sol
Date: 22 Jun 09 - 07:01 PM

39 years on September 15th and being celebrated the previous night with a house concert. Sparky & Rhonda Rucker will be staying with us after they give their performance.

Subject: RE: BS: Married 40 years!
From: Rabbi-Sol
Date: 22 Jun 09 - 07:03 PM

Excuse me make that NOVEMBER 15th. I hope scanner does not see the previous post or I will sleep in the doghouse tonight.

Subject: RE: BS: Married 40 years!
From: Louie Roy
Date: 23 Jun 09 - 10:21 AM

On the 5th of September it will be 64 years for me and my lovely wife and we still share many laughs

Subject: RE: BS: Married 40 years!
From: Art Thieme
Date: 23 Jun 09 - 01:11 PM

Congratulations!!!

For us, it will be 42 years on January 3rd, 2010!

Carol and Art

Subject: RE: BS: Married 40 years!
From: Joe_F
Date: 23 Jun 09 - 06:21 PM

And it don't seem a day too much.

Subject: RE: BS: Married 40 years!
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 23 Jun 09 - 07:55 PM

Married for 44 years 2 months and 20 days today.

But we were an item for six years and five months exactly before that.

So we've been together for 50 years 7 months and 20 days.

We can still make each other laugh, or cry, or rage, but it doesn't ever change what we feel for each other, and she's still the girl I noticed at the skating rink all those years ago, and said to myself "I'm going to marry her".

Within twenty four hours of that meeting I had proposed and been ACCEPTED (to this day I don't know why she said yes). Neither does she, I think.



Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: Married 40 years!
From: Gurney
Date: 24 Jun 09 - 12:11 AM

Yeh, Don, I noticed the legs on figure-skaters, too. My wife was one once.

Where does the time go?

Subject: RE: BS: Married 40 years!
From: JennieG
Date: 24 Jun 09 - 12:49 AM

We haven't made that yet - got to 33 years this year, 35 if you count the two years living together first.

Himself always tells people he married me for my cooking, and the fact that I was nine months pregnant had nothing whatsoever to do with it!

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: Married 40 years!
From: skarpi
Date: 24 Jun 09 - 04:35 AM

Congratulations!!!


all the best Skarpi Iceland

Subject: RE: BS: Married 40 years!
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 24 Jun 09 - 10:20 AM

Congratulations!

Tom and I will be married 27 years on Friday, but we met late, having each had a ten-year "apprenticeship" married to someone else.

I hope we all have many more years with our spouse/life companion/best friend!

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: Married 40 years!
From: Suffet
Date: 25 Jun 09 - 06:56 PM

The Mother of All Surprises happened just before our 40th anniversary party this past Monday. As we were loading up our car to take stuff to the hall where we were holding the affair, Marilyn's sister Naomi showed up unannounced and unexpected. Naomi lives in the artists village of Ein Hod in the Carmel Mountains, a few kilometers south of Haifa, Israel.

--- Steve