It will be 36 years for us this November 23rd. We dated in highschool and then separated when he went away to college(I was a year behind him in school) I married someone else who passed away when I was 19 years old. 6 months later, he ran into my brother and found out what happened--one phone call, and 2 days later we saw each other for the first time in 2 years and decided on the spot that we were meant to be together. Neither one of us believes in divorce, but it never came to anything near that. Don't get me wrong, we have had our hard times, and bad times, and we do not always agree, but when it comes down to it, we cannot live without each other. We have 2 great grown kids, a beautiful 15 year old grandaughter, and although we do things together a lot, we also give each other the time to do things by ourselves that they other does not like. Best wishes to you newlyweds---way to go the those who have stuck it out---the old values need to return, from children to adults---take life, marriage and parenting seriously and the rewards are great.