Originally Posted by onehundred80
Lots of people have been married for more years, their trouble(?) was they shared those years with different women. Five here, ten there and so on. The've got no money left, they just have the memories and they are at an age where they will not even have them soon enough.
I have 42 under my belt and all to the same one.
They don't make 'em like they did.
My best friend here at work was married 44 years to the same lady. They started dating when she was 14 and he 16 - and her parents did NOT approve of a 14 year old dating - her father threatened Tom on several occasions. Judi would sneak out of her bedroom window to be with him! He married her when she turned 18 - her father confessed, "We always liked you, just didn't want her knocked up." It worked, he didn't touch her until they married.
She died this spring. Tom about went off his nut, I was very worried. He's just getting back on a strait line. Many long evenings sitting and talking with him this year...
My last conversatoin with Judi, we argued. We often argued. I felt bad, but TOm said she ENJOYED arguing with me, and wished she'd lived to see me take my new job. (She did not like my current boss at all...)