How About Some Good News?

It was my birthday last Wednesday and I had a message from my Son in Law (unofficial). He has helped Dd through some difficult times , is great with DGS and has himself been quite poorly a couple of times.. Heis a quiet chap and lost his Mum when he was just 20 year old.
The message read ‘Happy Birthday , Mum’
Can’t tell you how much that meant to me.

OOOps, better say it was the puppy post.

Whitewavemark2

This morning my DH told me that our marriage keeps getting and better.

We “courted” for 4 years and married when I was 20 in 1972. He has more or less taken over the cooking and does most of the ironing (whilst watching the motor racing or cricket).
Had to break it to him that size 10 knickers would barely cover one thigh these days so now he buys me nighties instead - under strict guidance!

I've been happily married to the love of my life for 31 years now - it was our wedding anniversary in June. As my husband is disabled, we spend almost all our time together and have mostly sailed through lockdown as we really enjoy each other's company. We are best friends as well as partners and I expect our relationship to continue in the same vein until "death do us part". I've never understood why people stay for years in loveless marriages.

Jules59 sorry to hear about your recent loss. Lovely that you remain hopeful. I hope you meet another special someone if that's what you want.
Isolation with two special little ones sounds wonderful.

Your lovely messages are wonderful to read.
I’m 61 and have been married once and divorced and recently lost my partner of 10 years. Adjusting again to life on my own but ever hopeful I’ll meet someone lovely. Just spent 4 weeks isolating with new granddaughter and grandson ... wonderful !

I'm married to a wonderful, albeit sometimes irritating, man, and I wouldn't change him for the world. He was my first boyfriend, but we split up after 2 and a half years as teenagers, and found each other again in our forties, both having been in unhappy marriages for 20 years or so. We've now been married for 20 years and we have a brilliant relationship and are very happy. He has supported me through all sorts of horrible situations including six months where we had to deal with my father, son and daughter in different hospitals in life threatening situations, though unrelated, where I lost my father and almost lost my son, now a very different lad after his accident now with life-changing disabilities, and I had to have 2 operations in that time too. And although he never buys me flowers or chocolates, he does occasionally give me little surprises like magnum ice creams cos he knows how much I love them! However, it's his unconditional love and support that means the absolute world to me. I just hope I can step up at the same level if he ever needs such support from me.

Waited since February to move and hey presto it all came about this week, Hooray, now in my new home and beaming from ear to ear!

Happy news for me is twofold. My son had a road accident and was hospitalised. Not as bad as was first thought. That's HAPPY. More mundane (but 'happy') is the new iron I've bought is everything I hoped. Yep, I take my happiness wherever I can find it.

We have also been married for 50 years. I tell him I would have been free years ago if I had murdered him instead! We are both army veterans and I was an army wife for the first 20 years of our marriage, followed by 11 years as a TA wife.
We love each other dearly and say so regularly. We do argue occasionally but I wouldn't change him for the world. Lock down hasn't been a problem because we have been retired for seven years and used to being together all the time.

Yes, Puzzled, let’s hear some good news.

Pretty knickers! Never. Last surprise gift was a battery device with different sized brush heads thoughtfully given to help when I am cleaning the tiles on walls and awkward bits on the floor. Spotted on a rare visit to a well known German supermarket when DH was in for a DIY item. My gift was useless.

Lucca

Would a post like that not fit into the “signalling” category as discussed last week ?!

Quoting myself....I WAS JOKING !

oops, I'm so sorry I think I got Puzzler and Puzzled mixed up, hope I haven't caused any hurt.

narrowboatnan looks and sounds idyllic

What a lovely thread. A reflection of how genuinely nice people are, lots of long happy marriages, lots of magnanimous grans who haven't been so lucky but are able to enjoy our happiness and lots of widows who appreciate what they've had and can share the joy of those who still have that pleasure.
We celebrated our 50th earlier this month with a romantic candlelit dinner for two instead of the planned party and I have to say it suited us very well.
Never been given pretty knickers although naively he did buy me a very pretty nightie for my 15th birthday which my mother wrapped around his pimply teenage neck.
SuzannahM we have played at least one game of scrabble each day since lockdown, loser makes dinner, won't say who cooks most at risk of sounding smug.
WhitewaveMark2 clown and puppy story hilarious
MawB what a wonderful dancer your grandson must be.
zsazsawhat a lovely spirit you have, being able to appreciate the wonderful years you have had while going through the sadness that alzheimers brings to so many.
Puzzled So sad for your loss and for your neighbour, what a terrible shock.
Puzzler Thank you for a wonderful thread.
I'd like to repeat what WhitewaveMark2 said to those who are feeling unhappy
'Please don’t think that there is no room in our happiness for empathy or sympathy, in fact I think we may well be emotionally secure and strong enough to be in a position to give as much support and help that is needed'.
Lastly congratulations to all those with a golden wedding anniversary this year.

We’ve been married for 33 years now. DH’s parents and brother all tried to talk me out of marrying him. ‘He’s a wastrel’, they said. ‘It won’t last’. ‘I’ll give it 6 months’. Retiring and running away to sea - well, to a life on a 57ft tube on the inland waterways turned us into a Team. As it was just the two of us we shared duties. I did the lock wheeling and he steered the boat. We had to be our own and each other’s ‘elf and safety police. Without team work we’d have got no where. Too knackered to argue after a day on the move. Anyway, we’ve found a permanent mooring now, off the coast of Norfolk and have settled down to an even slower pace of life. We’re perfectly happy and a bit like Daisy and Onslow, from ‘Keeping Up Appearances’.

Pic of boat for reference.

Granny guitar, that is so funny. It made me laugh out loud.

Smile!

It is good to hear about happy lives for a change and know its not all sadness out there. We see a lot of threads about estrangement so why not the other side of the coin.
Bursting to tell but didn't want to seem boastful my granddaughter got a first in law. I'm so proud of her.

We will be married for 40 years next year. I remember dancing with my husband at our wedding, and I asking the spirits above to give me at least 35 years with this wonderful man. I am now asking for another 35 years!

Bluebellwould..well said?

This is a lovely uplifting thread, thank you OP.

My life hasn't been perfect, but my DH is everything to me and I count my lucky stars every day for him.