i will be married for 24 yrs how long have you been married ?

United States
February 22, 2009 8:43am CST
ok on monday i will be married for 24 yrs to a great wife and a wonderful mother of my two kids. we meant back in high school, from a blind date. i guess you can say we were high school sweet hearts. we had our kids first then we got married. not just because she gotten pregant but we talked about getting married after we finished school through the years we had to deal with so much, mostly from me my anger, drinking, getting hurt and being laid up for almost a year, and my bipolar. she stayed when i think most wife would have ran off and saying enough is enough. but she's the real back bone in the family, she's was able to do that no other females could do change me. and even though we are like night and day our love grew to be so strong. she always seem to know how to get me to think different and handle things different but how long have you been married and did you have to deal with hard times in your marriage? we dealt with for sicker or better, and richer and poorer but still together
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@suzzy3 (8342)
24 Feb 09
First of all congratulations to the both of you.Your wife sounds a real find and must love you very much.We all have some sort of problems during our lives,like most people we muddle through.I hope you have many happy years to come in the future.xx
@suzzy3 (8342)
24 Feb 09
I forgot to say we have been married for fourteen years and still very happy,we had one son before we got married and he is fifteen and a half now so we got together really quick but my husband was forty and me thirty six with two kids already did not want to hang around when it is right its right,never regretted it and we are looking forward to our retirement so we can spend more time together .xx
• China
23 Feb 09
Hi, how happy you are! I got married for 1 month. and there is still a long way to go!
• United States
23 Feb 09
One month? Dude the honeymoon isn't even over for you yet! LOL Congrats though and good luck
@bombshell (11256)
• Germany
23 Feb 09
yes we do have so many ups and downs but we still together.i am the same like you not rich not poor but we still manage it. so far we are 9 yrs this yr and i am glad and happy that i selected him.no regrets
@mermaidivy (15395)
• United States
23 Feb 09
We have been married for just 2 months. I look forward to having another months and years with him...hehe :-)
• United States
23 Feb 09
My husband and I have been married for 8 years, but have been together for 10 total. We got married at very young ages (17 and 19), but have stuck it out so far. I can look back today and say I love him more than I did the day that I married him because we have been through so much together. I believe you find out what "true" love is when you have to face good and bad things together in a relationship. We are the proud parents of 3 children (getting ready to be 4) and I am so thankful that God has brought us through what He has. Good luck to your marriage and I pray that God keeps making it stronger through each and everyday!
@1gidget (152)
• United States
23 Feb 09
That is awesome. My parents have been married a long time too. I remember growing about half of my friends' parents were divorced. I was married for about a year when I was nineteen. It did not turn out good for me. It has been over ten years since that and I really haven't even considered getting married. I was in a relationship for five years, then one for about two years, and currently my boyfriend and I have been together about three years. Maybe I am missing something though. You hear so often that things turn bad after you get married. I think that's probably not true most of the time. Guys who don't want a full commitment just started that rumor.
@sacmom (14192)
• United States
23 Feb 09
Happy anniversary to you and your wife. My husband and I have been married for the past 14 years. We've had our ups and downs just like any relationship, but we've stuck by each other during the good times and the bad. It isn't always easy, but that's part of being married, I suppose.
@youless (112123)
• Guangzhou, China
23 Feb 09
I can see you have a happy marriage. This year will be our 6 years of marriage. The hard time was at the beginning. As we would have many disagreements to many issues. We needed the time to adjust to each other. And sometimes we will have some argues, but now we are happy with each other. Perhaps we learn something from the marriage and we have grown up:) I love China
@bbsr13 (4196)
• India
22 Feb 09
Hello! We have completed our fortieth honeymoon on 26th January last.Ours was an arranged marriage and we met each other on our honeymoon bed for the first time and that was a great night in our life.thanx.
@mikeysmom (2088)
• United States
23 Feb 09
wow your wife is like me. i hang in there through all that stuff with my husband too but not because i am so in love with him. but because my son would be devastated if i left my husband and our lives would get even harder for reasons i do not feel like going into. we have been married almost 18 years and together almost 19. the first few years were really good and the first 10 i was still very in love with him but he did so many things that it wore away at me and you just cannot get those feelings back after so much. but her i am.
@nanajanet (4436)
• United States
23 Feb 09
We were married September 27, 1975. This year will be 34 years for us. We have been through a lot, good, bad and worse than can be imagined. That would be losing our son, but we have made it through so much. We have been close to break up a few times but worked through it, sometimes with counseling. I did not get married and not take it seriously. I have had friends who basically had easy marriages and broke up. One friend left her husband because, "he is just to nice to me, I can't stand it!" What?!! Oh, well. For better or for worse, but if he ever was abusive, I would be gone, or I should say HE would be gone.
@BobCindy (27)
• Canada
23 Feb 09
Happy Anniversary! May you have another 24 plus years. My husband and I have been married for 30 years this coming june. And we still date! My husband has been through a lot with me also. I wouldn't have blamed him if he left me at any time, but he is still with me. We fit together in such a way that it just wouldn't be normal if we weren't. We rarely go to bed angry. Our favorite saying..........I love you more today than I did yesterday but not as much as I will tomoro............We believe we will be together for all of eternity. We also believe we have always been together. Sometimes, just thinking about him brings a tear to my eyes, and he says the same about me. We have two grown children. We have been thru hell and back and it has only served to bring us closer. I hope you and yours live a life filled with all the love and happiness you can handle for the rest of your days.
• United States
23 Feb 09
I've only been married for 5 yrs this July but we've been together for 10 yrs. We haven't really hard any extremely difficult times thank goodness. We have had some issues with our ADHD daughter's behavior that put quite a strain on us a few times and his job is only allowing them to work 4 days a week right now. Financially right now it's a struggle but I try to keep a positive outlook for his sake because he feels like he's not doing enough on his part but I know it's not his fault either. Last year we found out that he has extremely high blood pressure and he was put on medicine that affected his performance, if you know what I mean. That was really hard because he really started doubting himself and it even got to the point where he insinuated that I was having an affair with a coworker. I was blown away because he had never had any trust issues with me before. After a very heated argument we finally sat down and discussed everything and got to the root of his issues and worked it out. He had convinced himself that if he couldn't perform that I would go out and find it elsewhere! After hours of talking we got through it and we're much stronger today and once his body adjusted to the medication his performance is no longer a problem either. Even when we do have a small argument I try to remember the all the wonderful times we've had together and that outweighs the bad. I can never stay mad at him long.