Jim's Gem

We were High School Sweethearts too!! Met in the youth group at church. He's 2 years older than I.
I think most of our arguments were probably money and kids. He served 20 years in the Navy and we went through 6 6 month deployments and many many months of training where he was gone for 1 - 4 months and I was here raising the kids on my own, a lot! I made it a priority to always follow him when he was transferred and tried to go to some of the training detachments and such so we could sort of limit the time apart. We watched most of our fellow military members divorce. He is a sweetheart and I love him dearly.

granny216

It will 57 years in October...it has been great. Our kids are treasures and now that we are older the roles are sort of reversed.

nativetexan

Oh this year was our 29th. My second marriage and last one. My hubby is 19 yrs older than me. :mrgreen:

Jingle

Our 48th will be Dec. 30th. We were young and no one thought it would last. We were committed to each other and still are !!!

Boston1954

May 6th will be 15 for us. I did not get married until I was 41.

barnbum

I am loving these stories!! We should discuss marriage more often! There's a lot of wisdom out there! :-D Keep talking!

How about this: what advice would you give to a newly married couple? Oh--I'm going to start a new post for that one... too important to bury.

Rhonda

Learn to be a good listener!!!!! And communicate!

pinecone

Wow, my grandparents made it to 72, parents 51 and we are at 36 and counting.

piney

judee0624

On January 4th, we will have been together for 35 years.

judee

Leota

Yes Shadow ... you are still newly weds :D Congratulations.