Does Anyone Else Have a Good Marriage?

[hucifer]

You know you're madly in love when you couldn't possibly imagine life without him.

Going on 7 years of marriage in June.

 

[Kitty 34]

been married 20 years.

 

[Angelrose]

A few months ago, DH and I were taking a walk a laughing and holding hands. Someone asked us if we were newlyweds, because we both looked at each other with such love in our eyes. Boy that made us feel good. We shocked them by telling them we have been married for 40 years, 41 the end of July. We are truly blessed with a very happy marriage.

 

[DaisyD]

Great marriage here too. Thank goodness for that! We are going on 20 years and happily so. Things can happen very quickly though so I'm always thankful we are in a good place.

 

[tiggerlover]

DH and I will celebrate our 20th anniversary later this year. Do we have a perfect marriage, no, but do we love each other and work at our marriage, yes. I am fortunate to have a wonderful DH and I love him very much, I consider myself blessed.

 

[Belle0101]

We celebrated our 9th wedding anniversary in January!

I'm not normally a mushy person but this thread is so great that I have to share this; I count the day we met (May 18, 1996) as our real anniversary - that's the day my life changed

That makes this year, to me at least, our 10 year anniversay and we'll be in Disney!!!! We didn't start out planning it that way, I wanted to be there for Mother's Day and Star Wars Weekend (for our boys), it all makes this trip extra special!!

 

[paigevz]

Happy, happy, happy. We're going on 12 years in a couple of months. We have disagreements, and we each bug each other with some of our little things, but we talk out the disagreements, and try to ignore the others! We may not get to be together quite as long as we had planned, so we enjoy each other even more now.

 

[DisneyPhD]

Just chiming in.

13 years this aug happily married.

will be have been together for 17.

Next year it will be half our live that we have been together.

Still in love, still happy.

A happy marriage is something you do need to work at though. It is worth the work, and effort.

 

[tmt martins]

coming up on 14yrs in July .We really sat down in the beginning and stated what we wanted .Both coming from really bad broken homes and seeing the effects on THE KIDS we didn't want that to happen.

Are things always rosie heck no but we pick our battles and know what is important .None of our friends lasted even a few years some have been through more then 1 .They always say your so lucky .

I think so but I also know that we put a lot of time and effort to keep it together .I wouldn't trade my life for the world .More money would be nice maybe a better job But as far as family it is what we made it and are adjusting all the time.

I never try to tell others how to live their lives just to look at what they are doing in it.You truely can't make others happy unless you are happy yourself.

 

[Quasi123]

I have been happily married for 27 years.

 

[Mad4Mickey]

I do Not perfect but a good marriage with a good Husband . But after the 1st one I deserve it : )

 

[Ava83]

I'm a happy girl and Corey is a happy boy We are each others best friends.

We sometimes have our tiffs, but nothing out of the ordinary.

 

[Michelle2]

coming up on 14yrs in July .We really sat down in the beginning and stated what we wanted .Both coming from really bad broken homes and seeing the effects on THE KIDS we didn't want that to happen.

Are things always rosie heck no but we pick our battles and know what is important .None of our friends lasted even a few years some have been through more then 1 .They always say your so lucky .

I think so but I also know that we put a lot of time and effort to keep it together .I wouldn't trade my life for the world .More money would be nice maybe a better job But as far as family it is what we made it and are adjusting all the time.

I never try to tell others how to live their lives just to look at what they are doing in it.You truely can't make others happy unless you are happy yourself.

I agree and am about in the same boat. We just reached our 14th year last January, and although there have been alot of bumps in the road, we're still forging ahead....

 

[jenfur]

8 Happy years of marriage this April for us. We've been together for almost ten. We're practically clones of each other (mentally, that is... )

 

[Jynohn]

DH and I have known each other for 17 years now, married for 8. The first few years were rocky, but I've come to appreciate our marriage more and more every day. I think him being in the military and his deployments really help me to realize how important he is to me and what a great guy I married : It's easy to take a spouse for granted, but when they're suddenly not around all the time it makes you suddenly remember all the great qualities about them that you love and miss so much.

So I guess I'm crediting the military for my great marriage!

 

[Chicago526]

It's only been 5 months, but so far so good!

We don't agree on everthing (somedays, we don't agree on anything!) but our secret is that we just don't get MAD at each other about it. I want to pay off the credit cards ASAP, he didn't (I "won", we are). He wants to buy new truck, I want to wait (we're waiting). I want to fix my car right away, he'd rather start getting the fence up in the back yard first, then worry about the car (we worked it out so we can do both, see DH gets his way sometimes! ). Stuff like that. We work it out (calmly, for the most part) and if I don't get my way, oh well. If he doesn't get his way, oh well. No sense in getting upset, angry, or mad over it. Life's too short.

 

[elizke]

It will be 20 years this July for my DH and I. We've had plenty of terrible times, and just bored with each other times, but we just keep going. Not all marriages are always full of every day crazy about each other happiness. True love is work!

If there's one thing my parents taught me (married for 54 years now), it's that you can fight like cats and dogs at times, and even go through spells where you hate each other, and still come out okay. I just told my DH's newly married niece that there are times I can't stand her uncle, but I just stay anyway. : )

The reward is a feeling of deep, strong love when things are good again. It does not feel like a beautiful bubble that could burst. It's a bumpy, uneven, unshiny ROCK. It's always there, through everything. I can hang on when the tide comes and stand up tall on it and I've built all my houses on it.

E.

 

[RickinNYC]

Although we're not legally married, we are in our hearts. And Joe and I are still very much in love after 15 years. I can't, and don't want to, imagine myself with anyone else. We constantly make each other laugh, not just snickers or giggles, but full out belly laughs. Plus, after so much time together, we still haven't run out of anything to say at the dinner table.

We're two peas in a pod. I love him and he loves me and that's the way it should be!

 

[THE HAT]

i am also one of the very lucky to have a wonderful marriage. we have been married for 12 years, officially together for 13 but, knew each other for 16 and sort of dated on and off in high school.
we are each others best friends, and every day realize we are more in love then the day before. we still talk non stop and end most days staying up so much later then we should, as we just never run out of things to talk about. we make each other laugh for hours.
i would have to say we have never really had a major fight, small disagreements now and again that we always seem to work out with a compromise.
we both came from homes with bad marriages, and just made sure we married the person we were supposed to be with.
i think our "secret" that makes it work, is the fact that we were best friends who fell in love with each other so, we always have that as our backbone.

 

[kikakeko]

We have been married almost 10 years - together for over 10. We have had some really and I mean really hard times. There are times when I thought things were never going to be ok and we talked about divorce. But we do love each other and we have always leaned on that.
My friend told me in the beginning of my marriage that it would always be easier to walk away then to stay and make it work. And that has been true for me.