Made To Last Forever.

Hiya inertia, Great thing that your own parents are going to reach 60 years of marriage together. Are they going to celebrate it? Well because some do and others don´t just wondered it should be celebrated because they have worked hard to stay together. 17 years is 17 years that in itself is an achievement. We are being bombarded with so many thing nowadays that its not easy to stay calm and see things through. Takes a special chemistry to be able to overcome so many problems. Like I said 17 years is a long long time.xxx

Yes, my parents will be celebrating the 60 years. As for 17 years being a long time, yes, I agree. But I also feel cheated out of all those years. I feel as though I could have found the right person with those 17 years. I did wind up meeting that right person, but it happened after my marriage broke. So I still feel as though the evil ex stole 17 years of my life.

Hello inertia, I can see how people can get to feel like that. But looking on the bright side of it marriage between two people can be so good for the couple themselves and others in the Family. Stability is the main word here and although it seems so difficult to maintain in a world like this that seems more hostile every day it is within our reach as well. For you I am really glad that you have met the right person that in itself is a really great thing. Also that love will last for years as well. Finally its the quality and not the quantity that I am really referring to. Have a great week inertia.xxx

Hello wolfie, So sorry to hear that about your relationship. I think that you will find someone again. What have you got a heart for if not? You have to use it and not shut it away you are too nice for that. Someday somebody will come around the corner our kid just you wait and see. As for your Mom she obviously loves him I saw a horrendous film yesterday and I won´t say the name as so many people like it but they say in this country that there are some loves that kill and this was one of them. Pure macho man I would have certainly dumped him right and proper. Left him sitting on his tod as we say in Wolverhampton.xxx

There was a lovely clip on Home Alone 2, with Kevin and the Pigeon Lady, I quote Kevin McCallister: If you wont use your heart, who cares if it gets broken? If you just keep it to yourself, maybe it'll be like my Rollerblades. When you do decide to try it, it wont be any good. You should take a chance. Got nothing to lose.

Aha you have caught me out there. Needles to say I was waiting to see if anyone would sit up and take notice. Unluckily I don´t have any prizes to give away lol but there you are you noticed you are right I got it from there so you are sentimental then and a romantic I knew it. They are right like a pair of shoes that you never get to wear because you keep saving them for a special day. I love that Film and Kevin and The Pigeon Lady too.xxx

Hiya tiffnkeat, Yes we can indeed learn from them if we learn to think before we act. Very often now acting before thinking is being seen as a big thing. So you lose your temper and you say a lot of things to the other that whilst they may all be true they are too emotionally charged and the wave of the bad temper overtakes you and you feel nothing but like wanting to have bitten your tongue instead. So anyone that reaches all those years of marriage has learned to be very tolerant and capable of coping with most things in life without getting too scratched themselves that is also a merit in itself.xxx

Hiya Arieles, That is just my idea to make people smile a bit. Its so nice to read about romantic things I feel like that anyway. With so many nasty things going on something like this story is really good and of course there are other stories like this too but I don´t know about them. Always happy to read nice romantic stories. xxx

Hello ayeesha., Too much of that kind of thing is going on yes. I think its because we get to know more about it too as we are surrounded by that kind of media. Even if a couple do not get married and they stay together I suppose is really something as well. Not saying I am for or against its the fact that they have been able to care for each other for so long. There must be an awful lot of couples with really long marriages but we never hear about them. Well I hope all the good ones last a lifetime because being realistic there are marriages and marriages if you see what I mean.xxx

That's true. Another things about couples these days is that instead of talking about their problems, they'd rather voice it out and rant on Twitter or Facebook, which can be pretty messy because some people meddle on personal affairs. I mean talk about your issues and don't involve other people by posting it publicly.

Hello ayeeesha, On Facebook and Twitter yes I know that they do but this is not the done thing. Your problems should be solved between yourselves and not on Social Sites. Other people will take sides with each other just to entertain themselves. Marriages are made for that to work at they just don´t happen in a day. Even the most perfect of couples have those little nagging problems to sort out.xxx

I hope so too. Now we are seeing a lot of them don´t even get married and they split up even quicker. Its a crazy World sometimes but there you have it. Will Marriage exist in the future?

@DianneN I think its because they have a give up attitude but at the same time there is more freedom to choose who you want to spend your life with too. My Grandmother was forced to get married and that was not really so long ago about 80 years ago.

@lovinangelsinstead21 I'm sure it will. Those people who split up have their own problems.

Hello GM, Very true that one no one ever thought of a Marriage going down the drain before did they? This is a Spanish Couple by the way and they have a certain level of good living too but I don´t see how they associate one with the other. Spanish Television thinks that you can only survive that long together if you have cash lots of it. Well they are not rich either by any means but they have something called love and its what you cannot buy that counts. It is really wonderful in this day and age. So refreshing to hear something different.xxx

Hello FV., Sorry I am shortening usernames as I am writing quite fast to fit things in all I can. Its not that I don´t like the usernames of anyone its just the very little relaxing time I have on here. Very sorry to hear about your Girlfriends FV., that is indeed very sad but so heartening to know that you fought and gave everything for them. Really I am no expert in anything like that I only know that I had to suffer "losses" like that too but having looked back on it much later on I was much better off without them. One thought of me as a "moneybox" which really hurt because the funniest thing is I have never had any cash anyway but his parents looked down on me with disdain because I was not of a certain social status and he lied to me about it so that was the end of that otherwise I might have thought differently about it all. There is nothing worse than getting married to snobbery you just don´t get to live and they don´t let you live either. Here I am only referring to my experience with one of them and he did not love me the same way as I found out years later. It hurts like hell at first but then you think what the heck? You will find someone I am sure but don´t take my word for it take your own.xxx

Hello lacieice, What a long time 46 years that is a really long time. Who has not had bad times in their marriage? Some its true have had more luck but there are marriages that need to be worked on and for me that´s the kind that passes the test of time. Yes I have been through all those kind of phases like you and ours is still a marriage and its been lots of fun too and lots of keeping on track and hard work from both sides. You have both done really well and you might well make it a marriage that lasts that long who knows what is in store for us really? Here´s to that long may it last.xxx

Hello natliegleb, Me personally I have only known about two marriages like that and I have not seen them for ages but then they were very much in love. Both of them are lovely so if they are still together I would think that really wonderful. Apart from that I don´t know of any others over here personally oh yes I do they are in my Husband´s family except that he passed over but they were together for many many years about 60 something years married I had forgotten about that one almost but its the only one I know at the moment.xxx