How many years wed?

Second Marriage for me and we have been married 37 years this year. I'm 64 and my wife is 61.

43 years , today .

Crikey bobs , where have those years gone !!

& a X to all !

Happy Anniversary Nonu
44 soon for us.

Happy Anniversary Nonu and hubby!

Happy Anniversary Nonu
47 years for us.

47 for us in March, Nonu I'll raise a glass to you tonight

Numberplease- congratulations. We have been married for 46 years and the slogan on my favourite mug reads: when I said till death do us part I didn't realise we would live so long.

happy Anniversary Nonu! I'd be close to that many also,if I'd never gotten divorced!

Congratulations numberplease and all others working at their relationships, however many it's been ;)
We've been married 40 years last September 1st. I was married just a week after I was 20 - I'd have been horrified if our DDs had done the same! We've had our difficulties - I'm not easy to live with - and we've survived a lot, including bringing up our much-loved DDs, one of whom was born with a rare genetic syndrome. We're now a couple of Old Gits - we do some things together (days out to National Trust places, gardens, bird reserves, theatres etc) but I have my own friends and interests separately too. I lost my mum to cancer back in '86 so their marriage didn't last beyond 35 years because of that, but my in-laws were married 61 years before my FIL died and I'm hoping we can at least equal that!

Well done Nonu - you must have been a child-bride!

many thanks to all who sent Anniversary Wishes ! We had a lovely day and evening , several flutes of the old champers !!!

RIVER How on earth did you know ??? {wink]

[cupcakes] s to all .
x

Congratulations to all . I had eight years , wanted so many more but would not swap those precious years with him for 46 years with anyone else .

Eight years with my husband , forty six years with his mother !

43 for us too - 44 in July. I'll be honest and say we were far too young having graduated 3 weeks previously but in 1970 the only way to live together was to get married and we haven't made such a bad job of it.

It`ll be 51 for us in July, and we`re still waiting to go out to celebrate the 50th, thanks to hospital stays!

OG and I will celebrate our 39th anniversary this year . We had our first date in Feb 1969, he was late, still is..... for everything, but on our wedding day I kept him waiting for 25 minutes . We had 18 months of normal married life before he suffered renal failure, his health has always be fragile. I have to be honest and say that with hindsight I would have run a mile and left him at the altar. But as my mother always said "You make your be and then you lie in it"

I'm glad you enjoyed your anniversary Nonu

Sorry for the typing errors it's been a long day. Goodnight

That's sad Sook.

Enjoy your celebrations number, when they happen.

44 for us in October Soutra. We hadn't known each other very long but it doesn't seemed to have been a mistake - yet.

44 yrs, just tell me who did I murder it's so long ago I cant remember, I'm still waiting for the sentence to finish.

44 years for me too Jeanie and thanks for reminding me - I actually had forgotten it's our anniversary at the end of this month!

47 this year! And never a cross word........."still crazy after all these years" as simon and garfunkle say!!

ours 50yrs+ three great kids-grown now with 9 gc, and 1 gt g son; married at 19 , many ups and downs; retired life not good--dh is lazy, work as in maintenance of home ignored! house damp, falling down.... anyone got a spare room ? kids make life worthwhile.

44 years together, and 43 married on 29th May.

43 years for us we met and married within about twelve weeks of meeting. I was twenty he was 19 , we met with a lot of disapproval from parents etc they said it wouldn't last. Well we proved them wrong hasn't always been easy and now we are entering the world of retirement it has provided us with another difficulty to over come. But we keep on keeping on.

It's 55 for us, after a blind date. children and lovely grandchildren and usual up and downs. I think keeping your own identity after retirement is a challenge, sometimes I have to ask how he thinks I was allowed sole charge of 30+ children each year for 40 years. I saw a link here on GN a poem of Pam Ayres called something like "They should have asked my husband/ He'd be sure to know" It makes me smile anyway. I'm glad I can't see a thread showing what they think of us.

Its our 65th wedding anniversary in September and yes we are going to have a nice "DO" in a local hotel.
Hubby has short term Dementia now so its hard work looking after him but having said that he has been a great hubby and a very good dad so its my turn now to care for him. It gets a bit nerve shattering at times but I have a big WW2 website and when he is resting or gone to bed I like to catch upon my e-mails and wind down a bit.
I have written poem books and was surprised when I found out that one book had been read over the local radio and this poem brought many responses from whoever picked up the programme.

The Marital Bed
For Gawds sake move over and let me get in
Its not very warm and my nightie’s quite thin
Panting and pushing to get him over the line
I only want half the bed the part I call mine.

I’m just dozing off to sleep when my calves go in a clamp
I jump out very quickly because I have the ruddy cramp
I can hear my other half snoring well in the ‘land of nod’
While I’m limping up and down thinking ‘you are a lucky sod’.

The cramp is slowly subsiding so I try my luck once again
More pushing shoving and heaving he really is a pain.
I close my eyes and let my mind drift like a rowing boat
When suddenly I’m choking with an elbow in my throat.

After being rudely awakened I settle down once more
Oh strewth! its started up again that never ending snore.
I bury my head in the pillow with the cover over my head
I’ve had this nightly torture since the first day that we wed.

I give him a dig to make him stop and turn the other way
Oh blow me down! here we go! he’s taken the whole duvet.
I pull it back with very much force, I have to be quite tough
So he turns over with it and puts his knees right up my duff.

I settle down once more to sleep the rest of the night through
When suddenly the bedclothes go back he has to visit the loo.
I turn to look at the clock, the hands say half past three
“Oh Lord!” I pray “let me get some rest, please be good to me”.

My other half gets back into bed shaking me back to life
I think I deserve a medal for being an understanding wife.
I hear the clock chime four o’clock I guess God never heard
I may as well get out of bed and do yesterdays crossword

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