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It's not my marriage, but for certain reasons I've been talking to a friend of my mom's recently. She's in her 80's. She married her high school sweetheart. In their later years, he ended up developing a medical condition that required her attention 24/7, literally. She could not let him out of her sight. Yet she wouldn't leave him or betray him in any way, remembering their love and respect for each other.
Well, he has now passed away. She is lost without him. She tries to be brave, but I can tell when I ask how she's doing that she's really struggling. It's just one of those things where you wish you could help, but there's really nothing you can do.
People make jokes about marriage and the ol' ball and chain, etc., but when you're together for something like 60 years or more... that means something. You've stuck together through the good and the bad, and there's going to be quite a bit of bad during that time.
I wouldn't take 5 million dollars to be married again to my EX. VERY happily divorced for 17 years! He is remarried and his wife loves me. She likes me more than he did and calls me her Wife In Law :-)
I was with my first husband for 18 years...only legally married the last 8 of them. It would be easiest to say it was unhappy, but that would be a lie because it wasn't always. We had good times and bad times, and then the worst times, and then it was over. We may have been a bad match overall, but we are both stubborn people and we did accomplish much together.
I am now remarried, much happier and we are much more compatible. We've been together 6 years and married just over 1.
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Coming up on 33 years.
Yes, happily married
