What does it take to make a good, lasting marriage?

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In your opinion, what does it take to make a good and lasting marriage? I've been married for 44 years. We had our anniversary July 6th. We were 21 1/2 and 22 1/2 when we married, old enough to know what we wanted out of a life-long partner. We also have parents who had been married a long time as well. We got married with the understanding we were going to stay married forever. Whatever came our way we would work out. Communication is one of the most important things in keeping a marriage alive and well. You need to be able to discuss anything that comes up in a marriage with each other, not some outside person. You should be able to talk with one another without blaming the other. And, togetherness, trusting, and faithfulness add to the ability to keep it going for so many years. There is nothing we don't discuss. We have learned to trust each other as individuals and it keeps one from feeling being strangled by an over-bearing partner. We love being together, but it doesn't worry either of us when we want our own space for a time. Neither of us are threatened when we want to do something or go some place on our own. That is where trusting comes in. And, the trusting make each of us know that we will never be unfaithful to the other. I think the one main thing that can help keep a marriage together is God and his handbook for our lives, the Bible. If one partner has God in their lives, he/she can make a difference in whether a marriage stays together or divorce is on the plate. When we don't have the answers, you can always find them through His Word and his guidance.