General Chat

Jane, when we first retired we made a point of doing our own thing sometimes but always setting aside one day a week to go out somewhere together, we still try and do that and it works. :-)

32 years for us now.Good times ,bad times but for whatever reason we seem to muck along together .Now will be the telling time......He has just retired :-S.It's only been a few weeks so early days.I'm sure there will be a few tough times ahead when we get on each others nerves,and he will be under my feet .A few 'bite my tongue' times will be on the cards .As I have pointed out to him he can disappear out to the Summerhouse(which has heating and light),his Study or the Greenhouse.I can then have the house all to myself lol :-D :-D

Marriage is like a plant, care for it and it will grow healthy.

If there is a problem, large or small - talk it out. Say 'I love you' often. Not forgetting laughter!!!

He is my rock - the ICU nurses used to call him that also!

Be like The Three Wise Monkeys, :o))> Hear All, See All,and Say Bugger All.:o))>

49 years married , and a lot of give and take . :-D :-D :-D

Now I look back in hindsight, there is a lot of pressure to get married. On the estate where I lived in my teens in Walsall, if men were not married by 21 and women by 18, you were on the shelf or gay.

I was in retail management in my 20's, working silly hours and having casual girlfriends a plenty. But no great chemistry that told me it would be a good idea to devote 53 years or more to a relationship with them.

I know my son (aged 28 now) feels the same and he is worried he will never get a wife.

My click click came at age of 30 and, depite a lot of worries and problems, marriage has definitely been the best thing that has happened. I just hope my son finds the right one - he is looking for a goth, ideally under 30 and Welsh, who likes heavy metal :-D :-D And that is not a description of his dear mother, I can assure you. :-D

Cleo Laine and John Dankworth always had separate hotel suites and lived in a long narrow house.

LOL # we do it Her way....................#

Bob

although MY way is quicker

oh does as hes told so we are happy

or most of the time

20 years we have been together

:-D :-D Jonesy, yes we have separate TVs as well.

pretending to be selectivly deaf for the last 38 years
and letting him pretend to be the boss
when his mates come round

also convincing him all the good ideas where his ;-) ;-)

Jonesey

45 years, 6 months and 11 days.............

hours/minutes please ;-)

'I expect you are right'.

These should be the last words spoken at the end of a disagreement.

Ha ha Jonesey - so right. He can watch rugby/cricket 24/7 as far as I'm concerned, but in a different room with the door closed :-D

:-Djonesy we have seperat tellys :-D :-D

sally w <3

Separate televisions.

45 years, 6 months and 11 days approximately.

49 years tomorrow

but could not say any thing stood out we just get along most times so I think that means love

sally w <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

53 years and still happy. But you don't spend all that time together without a hiccup or two. The main thing is how you deal with it. If you love each other, respect each other and are best friends you will come through the blips. You don't have rainbows without showers. And, what others have said, trust, tolerance, sense of humour, an ability to talk, honesty. My O H is my rock too, he supports me and is always there for me. I was under 16 and he was almost 18 when we met and we married 4 years later. Love him to bits and would be lost without him. <3

I couldn't read the article, because my screen froze!

Like Geordie, my OH is my rock. We both knew within 5 minutes of meeting that we had something "special". We married seven months after we met, nearly 28 years ago.

We thought the same thing....... that we had found our "missing" part.

I have no idea what makes it work..... it just does.

My parents' marriage was NOT a good example.

My OH is my rock, he's kept me afloat through what we thought was my terminal cancer, he sorts out family problems with fairness, he's funny, charismatic, my best friend, and it was love at first sight, 37 years ago! <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3