What Makes Relationships Last?

lots of love, honesty and being happy together.. My mom and dad were married 29 years it would have been 31 July 12.. But my father passed away last year with a massive heart attack.. When i seen my parents together they were happy they were totally in love each other so much they like couldn't live with out each other.. They always did things together. So i think it's those three things that kept them together and i think those three things that keep marriages last for years and years.

I've always heard if you play together you stay together and I don't mean just in bed. Make your relationship fun.

I think the later year marriage is a different sort of marriage to the young peoples marriage, young people look at marriage through rose colored glasses I think, nearly every little girl had a dream of being a bride and living happily ever after and having living dolls to play with and I think real life can be a shock and it isn't like the way you dreamed sometimes then you have the later years marriage, two people who have lived life, the real life and they look for something different in a person, they still love, I have a friend who married for the first time at the age of 65 and it is beautiful to see such devotion between two people, I think as you get older you learn to appreciate the more important things in a person, it is no longer looking through those rose colored glasses it is for real.

If they really like to each other so much and have respect & trust the relations can be go on more than 50 or till 100years

I personally am divorced, but my sister has been married over thirty years. She say the most important things to remember are first to pick your battles, and second to learn that you don't always have to verbalize what you are thinking. Sometimes after a few hours your thoughts have changed!

Love, respect, trust are the key ingredients. Also probably chemistry as well. If that isn't there, then it won't do the trick and may or may not last. But you have to have love, respect, and trust for it to work.

Maybe because of Love, respect and trust. It will add to for sure.