Whose parents are still married?

[bicentennial_baby]

I know that, amongst my peers, I seem to be in a minority. I'm 30 (28 days from 31) and my parents have been married since 1974.

You?

:hi:

[BarenakedLady]

1. Mine.

They got married when my mom was 19 and dad was 22.

[1gobluedem]

2. Mine

50 years last March.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. Mine are still married, after 65 years...

Married in 1942, and had me in 1943...

:hi:

[devilgrrl]

26. You're the same age as the Beatles!

Awesome!

[lizziegrace]

4. On 8-8-08, my parents celebrate their 50th

:)

[GreenPartyVoter]

12. Say, did they plan it that way? LOL

[lizziegrace]

15. I think they just got lucky

;)

Now they're excited about it. Back then, I think it was a date on the calendar.

[hfojvt]

28. cool, my parents 50th is this month

not only that, but 8-8-08 will be my baby sister's 16th and my brother has been married for 21 years and my sister for 22. My older sister has been married for 24 years (but to two husbands). On the other hand, my oldest niece is already divorced (and she also broke up with a fiancee.)

[Starbucks Anarchist]

5. 35 years.

:hi:

[BrotherBuzz]

6. After fifty-five years of marriage my dad ruined it....

by up and dying. We miss him nevertheless.

[JVS]

7. Does widowed count?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. Mine were happily married for 58 years

until my mom passed away three years ago.

[Mojambo]

9. My parents have been married since 1972. n/t

[SPKrazy]

Mine were

until my mother died

50 years

:hi:

[NMDemDist2]

10. my parents divorced when I was 7, but hubby's are married 55 years in June n/t

[GreenPartyVoter]

11. Mine got married in 1968 and stayed that way until mom passed away 3 years ago.

[graywarrior]

13. Mine are handcuffed together in hell.

[hippywife]

63. So are mine.

It's a living hell they've created themselves and have inhabited together for 50 years.

Good to see you! Nice pic in the other thread, btw! :hi:

[kedrys]

14. 48 years and change

And apparently still happy about it... :rofl:

:hi:

[Solon]

16. On the second date, my Mom told my Dad she loved him, after 3 months, he proposed...

About a year after that, they got married, in 1977, and they are still married now. As far as I can tell, being married isn't easy, I think too many people seem to think it doesn't involve work, but from my limited experience, if the couple works on it, it can work for a lifetime. Then again, I could just be blowing smoke up everyone's asses.

[lizziegrace]

18. I think you're absolutely right

both have to work at it, every single day.

:)

[Solon]

22. As I said, my experience is limited, as an observer...

of my own family, but then again, no one in my family, including extended family, has ever had a divorce. I don't know how rare or common that is, I figure my Grandparents, Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, etc. all just work at keeping their commitments to each other alive. As far as my own experience in relationships, lets just say that my timing sucks ass.

[bluethruandthru]

17. Mine were

They've both passed away but were married over 40 years.

[Cabcere]

19. Mine are!

Still happily married after 25 years, 2 kids, and numerous obstacles. :hug: :hi:

[greatauntoftriplets]

20. Mine were married until my father died in 1992....

They had celebrated their 57th anniversary the previous December.

[yewberry]

21. To each other? No.

Mom's been with her partner (wanting to marry but unable to) for 24 years. My dad's been married to his wife for 23 years.

[Shakespeare]

23. Mine are, too.

46 years this past July!

[lightningandsnow]

24. Mine are but,

they don't get along well at all. I'd think they'd last maybe another 2-3 years, but my mom is so "family values" that I just don't know what's going to happen.

[Withywindle]

25. Mine!

Married 1968, I was born in 1969.

Lefty atheist hippies too, the both of them. And Mom was a foreign university student. (They'd been dating all of 3 months when the deportation threat came through from her conservative Catholic father, and so they eloped to get her a green card STAT. Mom was 19, Dad 24.)

Still in love.

:hi:

[mwdem]

27. Mine have passed away. I've been married almost 35 years.

Anniversary is the 16th of this month.

:hi: backatcha!

[Deep13]

29. Divorced. One's dead and the other's crazy.

[SeattleGirl]

30. My father died years ago, while he and mom were still married.

I think, though, that they may well have ended up divorced, because of my dad's drinking.

[femmocrat]

31. Mine were married 50 years before my dad passed away.

I didn't even know anyone (growing up) whose parents were divorced.

[MissMillie]

32. I am 43 years old and my parents have been married since 1950

and they still hold hands

my mom was 16 and my dad was 19

they were expecting.

[haele]

33. Mine - 50 years next year.

A long, hard slog for both of them, both working, going to school, and raising me and my brother, but they were friends first; they had enough similar interests outside the marriage and supported each other when things got tough that they could make it through the tough times. Many of their friends ended up in divorce, but those two old hippies saw it through.



Haele

[Rob H.]

34. Mine celebrated their 42nd anniversary last week!

:D

[Breeze54]

35. Mine were married 50 years but are both deceased.

:(

[Ghost in the Machine]

36. Mine have been married for 45 years....

I don't know how they do it sometimes, but they do...

[Blue_In_AK]

37. Mine are deceased...

but they were married for almost 44 years. My father's first wife (my biological mother) died in a car crash in 1954. They had been married approximately 18 years at the time of her death.

I, on the other hand, have been married four times. My three daughters each had a different father. I guess times have changed -- or else I'm just a slut. :shrug: :rofl:

[Duncan Grant]

38. 48 years and counting.

How does one plan a 50th Anniversary party anyway? :)

[Roon]

39. I have two sets of parents

My Father and my step-mother, my Mother and my step-father. They all mean the world to me!!

[zingaro]

40. Mine are. 60+ years so far.

[GenDem]

41. 50 years for my parents a few months ago

[otherlander]

42. Mine are.

:hi:

[BreweryYardRat]

43. Does it count if they split up and then got back together?

[RetroLounge]

44. Parents still married, 53 or 54 years now...

My grandparents made it 69 years...

:hi:

RL

[clyrc]

45. My parents are still married, as are my husband's parents

My parents are coming up on their 40th anniversary, and my in-laws have been married some time over 40 years. My parents were even high school sweethearts who met when my mom was 12 and my dad was 14.

[Greylyn58]

46. Mine are. I'm 49, will be 50 in March

My folks celebrated their 51st year together this past August. Mom and Dad married in 1956 and are still going strong which is great considering Daddy got cold feet at the last minute and didn't show the day they were to marry in July.

My grandmother fainted and my grandfather wanted to kill him. (Obviously I have heard this story second hand as I didn't come along until 1958 :) )

Dad showed up later and apologized to Mom.(I'm surprised she forgave him) Still, the wedding date was reset for a month later. The wedding was much smaller, but my grandfather was still angry and refused to walk Mom down the aisle, so she and Daddy walked down together.

I guess it all worked out since they are still together 51 years later.

[patsimae]

47. My parents were married for 50 years

We had the anniversary party in the local Irish pub, which was torn down two days later.

They both died nine months later. My mom died first, and he followed three weeks later.

Maybe I'm supersitious, but I thought it was symbolic that they tore down the pub right after their party.

[Fleshdancer]

48. mine would be but my dad passed away back in 2000

:(

[Tuesday Afternoon]

49. not mine. I am the poster child for legalized abortions.

yay me :applause:

[ulysses]

50. 50+ years now.

:) :hi:

[ThatsMyBarack]

51. Mine!

41 years on Xmas Day! :party:

[LibDemAlways]

52. Mine celebrated 60 years in January. They still hold hands,

and are both in good shape for their mid-80's. I'm fortunate, I know.

[sakabatou]

53. Mine!

For nearly 30 years if not 30 years...

[Kucinich4America]

54. And to think the right wingers say we're all the product of "broken homes"

For the record, my parents celebrated their 43rd anniversary last month.

[Richard Steele]

55. My Sweetie's folks are still married. 38 years now, I think. (Of interest to "Seinfeld" fans...)nm

[quip]

56. Mine, 48 years

:toast:

[RFKHumphreyObama]

57. My parents were married for just over 30 years

Before my mother passed away earlier this year.

[murielm99]

58. Mine have been married for 60 years.

She was 18 and he was 22 when they married.

I have been married for 29 years. My first husband died after we were married for six years.

[Mendocino]

59. 57 years

Mom was 23, Dad 28. Both still with us.

[Awsi Dooger]

60. Mine, 52 years

Sadly, the last 5 years have not been the best. My mom kicked my dad out of the bedroom and they now share daily activities but no threat of warmth. She is not well mentally and is hostile toward him, making hurtful statements about the entirety of their lives together. Rough situation for all of us. At a younger age I think my dad would seek a divorce but at this stage he puts up with it and tries to help, despite daily abuse.

[Bennyboy]

61. Mine...53 years of misery.....

For my Mother. She was a doctor involved in forensic science back in the 50's. She was working on the early stages of DNA development in regards to criminality. At the time there were only 8 differentiations in blood but wrote a paper about how, in the future, they would be able to narrow it down by genealogy. As a Woman she was routinely chastised by the medical community in the southern states.

She moved to CA because of it's relaxed attitudes about women in general and female doctors specifically. Then she met my father and got married within a a couple of months. He was once married with two kids that he abandoned. In later years it would become to be known that he was very abusive toward his first wife and did not think his children were his own due to his having mumps as a teenager.

On my Mom and Dad's wedding night, my Mom, who had saved herself for marriage, had an orgasm. My Father jumped out of bed and accused her of being a slut and a whore. It would be my Mom's last orgasm. For my father, if a woman enjoyed sex, she was a whore.

Soon after, my Mom said she was pregnant with me. My Father beat her. He told her he was sterile due to his earlier bout with the mumps and I could not be his child. My mother told him if he ever touched her again like that, she would kill him. he never abused her physically again. Mentally the abuse lasted for fifty years.

My Mom eventually gave up on her career. It was what people did back then when children came into the picture. Also my father is a very controlling person and she could not take his stalking and accusations.

I grew up, with my Brother in a "Wonder Years" type of life. my father, once it had been determined that he was not sterile, was a devoted father and husband. Or so it seemed. we really lived in fear and had to deal with his many mood swings. As it is now, if you disagreed with him, you were punished. And he never ever forgot it.

My Father had many affairs, a lot out in the open and used sex as a weapon.

My Mom was from the old school south and divorce was not an option for her. She tells me to this day,that she could not be the first person in her family to be divorced, it would bring shame on her family.


To make a short story long...my father, who is an amazing hypochondriac, has been in very poor health for about 5 years. He is impossible to deal with, buy he has made everyone's life miserable for fifty years that NO ONe Will have anything to do with them. All my Mom has ever wanted is sometime in her life without him. Any good things about him are now long gone and he has been overcome with bitterness toward everyone. He has deliberately tried to destroy my marriage, set my son up to go to prison and done so many things to everyone in our family that it is incredible really.

And my poor Mom has just sat silently by all these years while he does these horrible things to people. And most in the family feel as if she has supported him in this. Really it is hard to think otherwise. She has been terrified of him for so long, she feels it just better to do what he wants rather than stand up and say no.

What a fucked up life.

[Maine-ah]

62. my father died, but they had been together since high school.

sometime around 1960. My father died in 1995. He was only 50. Mom has not remarried or even dated.

[sarge43]

64. Mine put in 64 years before my father died.

1929-1993

[eyesroll]

65. Mine, since 1972.

My paternal grandparents have been married since 1946.

My maternal grandparents were married in the early 1940s and were married until my grandfather passed in 1983.

(Divorce is exceedingly rare in my family...mine was the first in my grandparents' lineage since the early 1980s.)

[dropkickpa]

66. Mine, since 1969

They both swear it's lasted because my dad is away on business so much (he now live 3 weeks out of the month in Chicago ecause of work). They get sick of each other after about a week.

[Whoa_Nelly]

67. Mine were married 22 years

Married in 1947. Divorced in 1969.

I was so relieved.

[Bluzmann57]

68. My parents are not only still married to each other

But they got married in 1954 for a total of 53 years so far. Their offspring have had nowhere near that type of fortune meeting a lifelong mate.

[Midlodemocrat]

69. Mine were married in 1957 and were together until my mom died in 2002.

:cry:

[tjwmason]

70. Married since 1976

Still very much together.

[Orsino]

71. Going on 55 years now.

I feel fortunate.

[rbnyc]

72. My husband's parents are still married.

The threaten divorce about every 3 years and are excellent at being unhappy, but I think they will stay married forever. There is something that just works about them.

[raccoon]

73. My father died decades ago. He was still married to my mother

but I think she should've divorced him long before he died.

He was drinking and they fought all the time. They had a miserable marriage.

Fortunately, my mother was happily married to my stepfather for 23 years. :-)

[Coyote_Bandit]

74. 50+ years

Same for both sets of grandparents. Younger brother is working on 15 years or so now. Me? Happily single.

[sasquatch]

75. Mine

[Shell Beau]

76. My parents are going on 35 years!!!

[crim son]

77. Mine. Married in 1962.

Dad moved out for about four months when I was a teenager, but then he moved back in and now they're a pair of old folks living it up in Mexico!

When it's right, it's really right!

[Capn Sunshine]

78. Mine. 57 years this Dec

My Dad still runs his company and works every day. Mom retired last year.

[KitchenWitch]

79. Both my parents AND my husband's parents are still married.

Although my parents have their moments.

[kwassa]

80. My parents have been married almost 60 years, and are still going ...

Next June 10, 2008 will be their sixtieth anniversary.

[bmbmd]

81. June 10, 2008

will be our thirtieth anniversary. My dad died three yeas ago, after he and Mom had been married fifty-seven years. A few weeks ago, when Mom celebrated their sixtieth, I asked her which was better-the first thirty or the second thirty.




She said the second thirty.

[kwassa]

84. Congratulations on your impending 30th.

quite an achievement in itself.

[Lady Freedom]

82. mine is. been that way for 35 years.

[IronLionZion]

83. Mine, and I'm 24 nt

[MANative]

85. 48 years and still going strong....

a great example for my own marriage, now at 25 years and counting. :hi:

[Lex]

86. I'm 42 and my parents have been married since 1963.

Both sets of their parents were never divorced either.

My SO of 15 years has parents married for 45 years.

[bigwillq]

87. Mine are

they will be married 40 years in September