Older Love

We have been married for 45 years and are happy to show affection anytime anywhere. Why not?

dorset never give up hope, if that is what you truly want. I was divorced (not my choice) in 1975 and brought up my two boys on my own. Definitely not easy, but I'm pretty proud of how they have turned out. Ten years ago, so after a long time on my own, I met Mr JJ who came as a complete surprise, and here we are living in a completely new place and my life is utterly different from what I had assumed my future held.
I love him dearly, but we probably wouldn't be seen cuddling in the Waitrose queue!

I can't helping smiling to think that a couple of weeks ago, DH and I only just managed to avoid having a big row in a Waitrose queue.

Imagine the disgrace of being chucked out of a supermarket for causing a scene at our age!

We've managed to stick together through thick and thin for 46 years though it hasn't always been easy.

I wouldn't say we were 'in love' though there seems to be an intense and committed bond of some sort in spite of ourselves.

DH (to whom I have been married for nearly 48 years) wouldn't thank me for cuddling up in a food store, but then he wouldn't be in one with me anyway! Nevertheless, if a squeeze of the hand, or a smile would be enough for me, then a cuddle is what others do and that is fine. We show love in our own ways, don't we?

We have been married 61 years, and yesterday we met up with friends, sadly two of those had lost their other halves - one only last year, after sixy years of marriage, (the other cared for his wife for years before she finally passed away, they had been married for 50 years) the other two still married to each other and like us married in 1952, we have other friends who have all managed to stay married to each other for 55+ years, and another couple who are celebrating 65 years this year, and we regularly meet up and have a laugh - that's the recipe - good friends and laughter. Yes, there have been problems,- meeting up with friends we have known for more than 50 years means that we can talk about the past and understand what has happened, BUT no I would not cuddle up to my husband in the super-market, however, when we are laughing together in a group, we very often lean against each other, which our younger friends (yes we have a large group of those too) seem to find quite touching - where as really it is only habit, we might fall over!

Marelli

I think what you witnessed was wonderful Dorset - sadly very few marriages reach that milestone nowadays.
I am sure that if they are truthful they would both say that they have gone through rough patches but 'Give and Take' and coming through at the other end is the important bit.
DH and I have been married for nearly 36 years and if I had £1 for every rough moment or crisis I would be a very rich woman but we stuck together. Sadly DD is divorced having tried very hard to stick to her marriage vows so it isn't always possible.
Sometimes I wonder how different my life would have been if our marriage had ended at one crisis or another but each time we worked at it and somehow got through.
for all you Dorset and all those who haven't been so fortunate.

Lovely to see.....but if I nestled up to DH next to the 'Dine in for a Tenner' he'd be horrified! He'd probably think I was falling over and about to make an exhibition of myself !

Lovely to see a couple happy in each other's company, Dorset

She didn't say if that 55 years was to each other dorset. They sound a bit iccy to me

Me too Dorset, it's lovely to see though