80 Year Olds Celebrate Their 60th Wedding Anniversary
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Rather than start a new thread I thought we could run with this. Firstly though, if you have been through a painful separation, my thoughts of care are with you. It has never happened to me but a lovely friend from way back did something that a former boss of mine would crudely, yet succinctly describes as, fall in love with his d*ck, meaning an extra marital relationship.
Suddenly this former friend decided that he really didn't want children, but he was quite happy to leave his wife and two children and move in with a mother of three. I'm going off on a tangent, it does pain me though. The two kids are our God-children, they text us about their lives and families almost daily, their father never gets such lovely texts.
Sorry for the digression, are you in a long term marriage? Can you remember the proposal? Of course you can, but will you share it? To those whose marriage failed, it's still worth knowing your story of love and proposal. I will tell you mine but first I must pass on a friend's amusing story. Marriage proposal is usually four words, that being: "Will you marry me?" One dear couple, who are, thankfully, still an item, came up with another four worded proposal: "You're not, are you?" How many have experienced that?
My wife and I were dance mad, we were competing at amateur competitions around the country, are ambition was to turn professional. Reality hit one day when I learned that I was earning a lot more than most of the professional dancers that I knew. From then on we just danced for the love of it. But when you are young, ambition can blind you, so after yet another expensive hotel bill from yet another weekend competition at yet another dance, I tentatively asked her Dad if he would mind if we share a room. What a storm that brought down on my head.
"Sleep with my daughter!" he suggested, "No Dad, just share a room with her," "That's what you say," he said, all but exploding, he then added: "If you want to sleep with my daughter, you will marry her," so to his, and everyone else's surprise, that's what we did. She was just eighteen and I was twenty-two.
We have celebrated, silver, 25 years, ruby, 40 years, sapphire, 45 years, gold, 50 years and this year, if we can both avoid the grim reaper, we will celebrate our 55th year, emerald, together. The only grief that I can think of is the assumption of a pregnancy enforced marriage and later, questions about why we still haven't procreated. Sometimes you just can't win.
Suddenly this former friend decided that he really didn't want children, but he was quite happy to leave his wife and two children and move in with a mother of three. I'm going off on a tangent, it does pain me though. The two kids are our God-children, they text us about their lives and families almost daily, their father never gets such lovely texts.
Sorry for the digression, are you in a long term marriage? Can you remember the proposal? Of course you can, but will you share it? To those whose marriage failed, it's still worth knowing your story of love and proposal. I will tell you mine but first I must pass on a friend's amusing story. Marriage proposal is usually four words, that being: "Will you marry me?" One dear couple, who are, thankfully, still an item, came up with another four worded proposal: "You're not, are you?" How many have experienced that?
My wife and I were dance mad, we were competing at amateur competitions around the country, are ambition was to turn professional. Reality hit one day when I learned that I was earning a lot more than most of the professional dancers that I knew. From then on we just danced for the love of it. But when you are young, ambition can blind you, so after yet another expensive hotel bill from yet another weekend competition at yet another dance, I tentatively asked her Dad if he would mind if we share a room. What a storm that brought down on my head.
"Sleep with my daughter!" he suggested, "No Dad, just share a room with her," "That's what you say," he said, all but exploding, he then added: "If you want to sleep with my daughter, you will marry her," so to his, and everyone else's surprise, that's what we did. She was just eighteen and I was twenty-two.
We have celebrated, silver, 25 years, ruby, 40 years, sapphire, 45 years, gold, 50 years and this year, if we can both avoid the grim reaper, we will celebrate our 55th year, emerald, together. The only grief that I can think of is the assumption of a pregnancy enforced marriage and later, questions about why we still haven't procreated. Sometimes you just can't win.
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My husband and I are married for over 50yrs. I wouldn't want to spend one minute on earth without him. I always pray that I pass away first.