Married 64 years

Congratulations to your uncle and aunt. That is a very long life together. It's amazing how couples can be married that long and still be able to get around and enjoy life. We just celebrated our 39th year of marriage. We dated for a few years before we became engaged and then married 2 years later. We have 3 grown children, 4 grandkids with another one on the way. Life has been good but I can't say there hasn't been some rocky times. It was difficult when the kids were small and my husband worked very long hours during the winter months. I wouldn't change my life though as it's been very rewarding and fulfilling.

Congratulations to your aunt and uncle its great that they are still together after that long. I hope that they have many more years ahead of them. My parents celebrate being married 40 years in August. I hope that when me and my partner marry that we also have a long and happy marriage in front of us.

That is a long time. But those old marriages were formed in a time where divorce was still a no-no. My parents are married for 52 years. There were some occasions where nowadays people would just call it quits and split. But they stuck it out and are still happy. Maybe we should re-examine the divorce-happy society we have nowadays. I'm sure most relationships could be saved. I think people just give up too easily. Marriage does take a lot of commitment and a lot of work. Looks like people enter into marriage too lightly now, and then don't want to work on the relationship, once the honeymoon feeling starts to wear off. BTW, my husband and I are married for 12 years now;)