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Miri

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Hi everyone

There seems to be so much doom and gloom on here at the
moment that I thought it would be really nice, if those who are
happily married could come and post, tell us how long they
have been married and explain what they think makes a
successful marriage.

Don't be shy, I am sure you have some wonderful things to
say.

God bless you and praying that He will continue to bless
your marriage.

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tourist

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Clap Clap

Married Thanksgiving Day 11/27/14 in our room at Hilton Grand Resort on the strip in Las Vegas, Nevada. My wife had previously arranged for a local minister. For witnesses we had 2 bellhops and a maid. Afterwards we enjoyed a turkey with all the trimmings. My football team won also.
 
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skylove7

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Thank you Tourist and JL! I love you two! See true love does exist! Lol...I didn't think God made me a poet in vain! :) Bless you both!
 
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Miri

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tourist said:
Clap Clap

Married Thanksgiving Day 11/27/14 in our room at Hilton Grand Resort on the strip in Las Vegas, Nevada. My wife had previously arranged for a local minister. For witnesses we had 2 bellhops and a maid. Afterwards we enjoyed a turkey with all the trimmings. My football team won also.
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Sounds like it was a perfect day :), Happy for you both.
 
notuptome

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Just marked forty one years on May 11. No money to go to Italy so we went to Olive Garden. Topped of the night with a shopping expedition for a new refrigerator. Jury is still out on the refrigerator.

For the cause of Christ
Roger
 
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Miri

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Wow I don't know which is the most impressive a 41 year marriage or a fridge
that is 41 years old :)
 
tourist

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notuptome said:
Just marked forty one years on May 11. No money to go to Italy so we went to Olive Garden. Topped of the night with a shopping expedition for a new refrigerator. Jury is still out on the refrigerator.

For the cause of Christ
Roger
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I love Olive Garden, especially the salad and breadsticks.
 
p_rehbein

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tourist said:
Clap Clap

Married Thanksgiving Day 11/27/14 in our room at Hilton Grand Resort on the strip in Las Vegas, Nevada. My wife had previously arranged for a local minister. For witnesses we had 2 bellhops and a maid. Afterwards we enjoyed a turkey with all the trimmings. My football team won also.
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Not having actually left their room, neither can comment on the various attractions of the City.
 
santuzza

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*Clap Clap*

21 years and counting! We work and live together 24/7. I would really miss him if I had to hold a real job again and be separated from him for 8-9 hours of the day.

He is a wise and godly man. We met in our church's singles group on the church bus to the inner city to serve a Thanksgiving dinner for the homeless.

Just a short story to show you his character:

One day we were at a store, and while checking out, the cashier, who was obviously upset, shared that she had to turn away the previous customer because he didn't have the $3.39 for his purchase. She said she would have given it to him herself, but she was out of pocket at the moment because she just started her job and hadn't gotten her first paycheck yet. She didn't know what she would even have for dinner. Moved by her story, my husband whipped out a $20 bill and handed it to her -- it was all the cash we had on hand or he would have given her more. That's the kind of guy he is.

I am truly blessed to call him my hubby!
 
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Miri

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santuzza said:
*Clap Clap*

21 years and counting! We work and live together 24/7. I would really miss him if I had to hold a real job again and be separated from him for 8-9 hours of the day.

He is a wise and godly man. We met in our church's singles group on the church bus to the inner city to serve a Thanksgiving dinner for the homeless.

Just a short story to show you his character:

One day we were at a store, and while checking out, the cashier, who was obviously upset, shared that she had to turn away the previous customer because he didn't have the $3.39 for his purchase. She said she would have given it to him herself, but she was out of pocket at the moment because she just started her job and hadn't gotten her first paycheck yet. She didn't know what she would even have for dinner. Moved by her story, my husband whipped out a $20 bill and handed it to her -- it was all the cash we had on hand or he would have given her more. That's the kind of guy he is.

I am truly blessed to call him my hubby!
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Aw great to hear your story. Thank you for posting and sharing :)
 
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atwhatcost

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It's 5:30 AM, our front door (to the porch) is open, and clapping would wake up the neighbors.

But, 34.5 years. I told him I'd be happy to honeymoon in Westville with him. Westville is a rinky-dinky little town in New Jersey where nothing happens all the time. They also don't have a motel, so he found the closest one for our honeymoon night -- Gloucester City, NJ. (Westville is a quiet little village. Gloucester City looks like a city -- complete with rowhomes and many storefronts for things like vacuum cleaner bags, appliance repairs, a plumbing supply store -- or basically the kind of stores you only need once every ten years, and have to research where to find them, even if you drive by them every day.)

The honeymoon night was strictly a G-rated affair, since hubby spent the night before trying to decide if he wanted to move to California immediately or marry me the next day, so he didn't sleep at all. So the first thing he did when we got to the motel room was go to sleep. (It was 3 PM, so he was thinking just a nap before we went out to dinner.)

I had more important things to do. Had I known the Phillies were playing their clinch-the-division game on our wedding day at the exact same time we were getting married, I would have had an earlier wedding to catch the game. Since I didn't know that, God was kind enough to cause a rain-delay up in Montreal, so the game just started when we got into the room. I sat on the corner of the bed, still in my wedding dress, to catch the action. I also needed to try to relax my mouth, because it was sore from smiling so much all day, but the game was good (which means the Phillies were trouncing the Expos, so I never had to worry they might not win), and I was quiet all the way until the bottom of the 9th when Michael Jack Schmidt came up to bat. He hit his last homer of the year -- his 50th of the year. I accidentally woke up brand-new hubby by screaming. Oops! But the Phillies clinched the division.

During our honeymoon (down in VA) the playoffs started, but for the wildcard teams, so there was plenty of baseball, just no Phillies.

BUT, our honeymoon was through Virginia, so the night after our stay in beautiful (coughcough) Gloucester City, we pulled up to a diner/bar in Manassas (better known as Bull Run, where two battles in our Civil War were fought, including the first full-fledged battle), and ate during the Philadelphia Eagles/Washington Redskins game. (Manassas is right outside D.C.) When the Eagles scored first, two people in the whole place shouted for glee -- hubby and me. A big group of D.C. fans sitting right in front of the TV turned around to stare us down, but one guy in their group laughed and thanked us. (There's always one traitor in every group of buddies watching a game. lol) The Eagles won.

I used to kid people or explain honeymoons to kids by saying "that's when two people get married and then spend the week playing tiddlywinks." I have a photo of me playing tiddlywinks on our honeymoon (This was back before digital cameras, so I couldn't show it, even if I could find it now. lol) He bought me a nice tiddlywinks game at a souvenir shop somewhere in our travels. I only made the one shot to have the picture taken.

The Phillies went on to win the World Series, and were kind enough to wait for us to come home, so we could feel the excitement with everyone else in this area.

On January 24, 1981 (the following January), the Eagles made it to the Super Bowl (and lost.)

Our teams haven't been that good at the same time since. (The Phillies finally won another World Series in 2008, and the Eagles have gone back to the Super Bowl again, but lost... AGAIN!)

So, all in all we have both teams beat for championship seasons. We've never had a losing season together, even if circumstances seem like we ought to have. Little did we know that honeymoon week was no grand adventure compared to what we've been through since, but it was a wonderful adventure in its own right. God has been very good to us.
 
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psychomom

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35 years last month.

it works because Jesus. we've learned through the difficult times you don't toss something because it's difficult right now.
when you don't 'feel the love'; you feel the commitment.
and before you know it, you feel the love. :)

every anniversary, our children thank us for our example.
sweet, silly children. :rolleyes:
 
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skylove7

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YAY! ELLIE and MARK! :)

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santuzza

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35 years last month.

it works because Jesus. we've learned through the difficult times you don't toss something because it's difficult right now.
when you don't 'feel the love'; you feel the commitment.
and before you know it, you feel the love. :)

every anniversary, our children thank us for our example.
sweet, silly children. :rolleyes:
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Amen, sister. Hubby and I have been through the wringer -- job loss, infertility, death of all 4 of our parents (and dealing with the sibling squabbles!), church splits -- all kinds of pains and difficulties. But with JESUS we have made it through it all! I don't see how couples without Jesus make it!
 
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oldthennew

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just for a change of pace, maybe for some who feel kinda stuck after a few years -
and may feel that a little of the thrill or fun and adventure may be wanning or even gone.....

the other day hubby and I were in one of our favorite stores, don't hold your breath, it was
Big Lots, (by the way, they do carry a lot of 'organic products' oh how we love that store, know most
of the staff in (2)stores by name - and they are always more that willing to help you find what you want -

anyway, when we entered the store, I was searching for some kind of piece of something that I
could glue into the space where hubby has lost a tooth from his partial - well it was around Halloween
and I spotted a thingy with a whole bunch of 'tooth potential filling stuff' - it was all connected to skull with
lots of thingys hanging off of it- (we started laughing at that right off of the bat, it was so absurd.
well, he started making obscene jokes about the source and I all but fell on the floor, actually holding my
crotch and unable to hold back belly laughing in front of everybody and since he wouldn't stop with the jokes,
(because he had me right where he wanted me) I had to walk out of the store stilff legged and wait in the car
until he finished the shopping....and yes, when we got home I had to take a shower.

note: if you have the connection and humor and life-saving gifts that should accompany all Godly marriages,
they will bring you and heal you through many trials and errors that will inevitably try and destroy a marriage.

we are both on the 'back-side' of sixty, and it just gets better and better -
God's imparted love, laughter, tolerance, unselfishness-appreciation of His wonderous gifts and beauty,
and so very important, always let that mate in on just how you feel about them with no holds barred -
touching-is-key,,,,,,,:):rolleyes:
 
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3Scoreand10

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52 years Feb. 3rd.
Met in church, both born again on July 27. 1962, both baptised July 29, 1962, my 18th birthday.
Married Feb 3, 1963, two weeks past her 17th birthday.
Not only are we madly in love, but best friends.
No doubt this is God's doing.
 
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oldthennew

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3Scoreand10 said:
52 years Feb. 3rd.
Met in church, both born again on July 27. 1962, both baptised July 29, 1962, my 18th birthday.
Married Feb 3, 1963, two weeks past her 17th birthday.
Not only are we madly in love, but best friends.
No doubt this is God's doing.
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3Scoreand 10,

this is what will bring a tear and a hope and a humongous (((((GOD BLESS & CONGRADULATIONS)))))):p:D
 
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Miri

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It's great to hear from you all
and to see how God has brought you
all through and see the love shining
through.

Any more with any more?
 
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Tintin

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Great thread, Miri! I'm not married, but I do enjoy reading these posts. I made a similar thread sometime ago for the very same reason. Hallelujah!
 
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cmarieh

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Every single person on here that is happily married and willing to say so is truly and inspiration to me. I want to experience a love like that, that is reciprocated. Here is to many more years of marriage to you all:)
 
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