How many years wed?

Yumnan hope u lurve vegas , we do big time it is a great place , we have been married 41.50 years

Celebrating our 41st in December! Finding it strange now that he's retired and is around all the time as a lot of our life has been spent apart. He in London, me in Scotland before we got married, then him jetting off on business trips all over the world and me left behind with 2 children and a dog and the nearest family 250 miles away! But we're still together and getting along just fine...as long as we can have the odd break from each other every now and then!
Congrats to all those celebrating at the moment.

errrrm.........our first wedding anniversary is on Saturday.

Brilliant vampire

42 - (but of course I was a child bride - barely legal ) I think that once you get past certain points, unless something dramatic happens it becomes easier to poddle along together, don't you?
I think oor Rabbie got it right in this lovely, tender poem:

John Anderson, my jo, John,
When we were first acquent;
Your locks were like the raven,
Your bonie brow was brent;
But now your brow is beld, John,
Your locks are like the snaw;
But blessings on your frosty pow,
John Anderson, my jo.

John Anderson, my jo, John,
We clamb the hill thegither;
And mony a cantie day, John,
We've had wi' ane anither:
Now we maun totter down, John,
And hand in hand we'll go,
And sleep thegither at the foot,
John Anderson, my jo.

gracesmum, that poem of Rabbie's really does say it all. My Other 'arf and I have been together for just over 42 years now. I still remember how he attracted me - he stood and smiled and tipped his head to the one side. He wore a charcoal grey round-necked jumper with a white shirt under, and the collar was inside it - not over the top of the jumper. I don't know how he saw me or what he saw, but I still remember how I felt then........quite determined, actually....

Celebrated 41 years of marriage at the start of this month and will have been together 46 years on 5 November : 15 & 17 when we met. Have had our downs as well as the ups but on balance we decided we were better together than apart! We still have lots of fun (& occasional grumpiness) but life is good for us and are glad we chose to stick together and make love work!

My sister in law and I were discussing her Golden Wedding party and how old our parents in law seemed at theirs compared with (hopefully) how we have aged - do you agree?

We had our Diamond Wedding Anniversary this year, as did a group of friends, 1952 seemed to be a good year to get married, but then of course we all tend to be friends with people our own age. It no longer seems to be unusual for people to be married for 50 or 60 years, obviously we are all living longer and divorce was not easy in our younger days. Ours has been a basically happy relationship, two lovely children, two equally lovely grand-children and a son-in-law I would have chosen myself. Bit grumpy with each other these days, just because we cannot do all that we used to and would like to, but we keep reminding ourselves that at least we still have each other - one of our 'diamond' group has just died, which has made us quite sad. Having said that, there were of course times when I could quite willing have murdered the other half!

Nanaej - 41 years here too. 29th May 71 for us. But we only knew each other for less than 5 months. A crazy story. The only way to be together in these pre- EU/Shengen days, was to get married.

8 years for my first marriage and twenty seven years for my second that makes 35 years altogether! If we add in my husband's first marriage of 18 years we have a grand total of 53 years! WOW!

I was 17 and he was 24. I am now 55 and he 62 so that is .......um.......38 years together! We married in 1983, so 30 years married next May.

First time was 25 years, and second time was 18 months.
I suppose I was always going to have two.....I'm a Gemini, I have two of everything

44 years next month, I was 17 he was 20 and they said it wouldnt last! Though I have to say seperate bedrooms work for us. His snoring would have seen me off years ago otherwise! I just hope we survive retirement if it ever comes, though come to think of it I don't think I could train up another one now! Better the devil you know and all that.

Granjura we got engaged after 5 weeks but, as we both lived in Leicester, we didn't have your excuse!

Isn't there something about getting rid of warts by dancing naked in a churchyard at midnight with a dead black cat tied to the offending area? Or am I getting(?) confused?

Congratulations anyway to everyone . We've achieved 43 years but he says I'm just a bad habit he can't shake.

Oops the wart remedy was for Greenmoss on Thursday. Somehow I managed to have two GN pages open at once. I blame DGD (4 years) for delayed posting.

We met 59 years ago this summer and to celebrate, my husband took me to the railway station where we met, to the Inn where we had our first romantic meal and then to see the dance hall where we had our first dance.(It is now a fish and chip shop!) This was one of those holiday romances that are not supposed to last!

I've been happily married for 55 years and have 1 daughter and 1 son , 2 grand daughters and 1 grand son ,2 g grand daughters and 1 g grandson due in November.
After getting the all clear from cancer 2 years ago and having a lesion removed from my spine 12 months ago I consider myself to be the luckiest person in the world

Number I have realised that you must be approaching your Golden anniversary! Of ocurse having read Nanav and Hunt's posts - that is nothing!!! Congratulations when the day comes anyway!

It would have been 41 years but sadly my wide passed away in 2003.
I do not agree when people say we were only married for 31 years so it is not so bad as being widowed after say 50 years,
We met in 1960 so our relationship lasted for 43 years.
I think the marriage really rubber stamped our love for each other.

Frank

Just celebrated 9 years. Second time round for both of us.

Thank you Gracesmum. We are indeed about to celebrate our Golden wedding. We`ll be going out for a meal with our 5 children, partners of 4 of them, plus some of our grandchildren. The occasion is being slightly overshadowed by hubby`s being told that he has a possible cancer in his bowel, he has a CT scan this coming Wednesday, we`re hoping that the news isn`t going to be too bad. Sorry to put a dampener on the thread.

I hope all is still well for all those who posted of love for their DH/DW.43 years for us in a fortnight.my long suffering DH had to take me to A&E this morning and stoically read the independent for two hours,possibly the dullest newspaper ever. The man is a blessing and a treasure. All's well that ends well.

49 years as of last week. Much longer together