# As of today I have been married more than half my life! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 29, 2015, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-of-today-i-have-been-married-more-than-half-my-life/726432 "2015-07-29T00:31:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2015, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-of-today-i-have-been-married-more-than-half-my-life/726432/1 "2015-07-29T00:31:08Z")
We were married a month after my 29th birthday, and we had our 29th anniversary a month ago. Yesterday I had been married exactly half my life, and today I have been married longer than I was not! Where does the time go? ---
**Author:** ![diggerwam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/919ad9/32.png) [@diggerwam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/diggerwam)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2015, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-of-today-i-have-been-married-more-than-half-my-life/726432/2 "2015-07-29T00:41:51Z")
I was married a couple weeks before I turned 22, I am now 45. I don’t recall all that much before meeting my future wife in 1988. Life is pretty much split into years before and years after. We are both pretty happy. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2015, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-of-today-i-have-been-married-more-than-half-my-life/726432/3 "2015-07-29T00:58:10Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > We were married a month after my 29th birthday, and we had our 29th anniversary a month ago. Yesterday I had been married exactly half my life, and today I have been married longer than I was not! > > Where does the time go? Hey man, that’s cool! Congrats! I will reach your milestone in a little more than 3 years as my wife and I married when I was 28 and I am 53 now. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2015, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-of-today-i-have-been-married-more-than-half-my-life/726432/4 "2015-07-29T00:58:16Z")
As of today I have been divorced for almost 59% of my life.☹ Congrats to someone who has stayed married and happy!🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2015, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-of-today-i-have-been-married-more-than-half-my-life/726432/5 "2015-07-29T02:19:25Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > We were married a month after my 29th birthday, and we had our 29th anniversary a month ago. Yesterday I had been married exactly half my life, and today I have been married longer than I was not! > > Where does the time go? I’ve been with the same woman since I was under 20 - back in late 1976. To borrow a line from several comics, had I done anything else that day I would be off parole by now! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2015, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-of-today-i-have-been-married-more-than-half-my-life/726432/6 "2015-07-29T02:20:43Z")
I just clicked in to make sure the OP was not just now turning 25. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2015, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-of-today-i-have-been-married-more-than-half-my-life/726432/7 "2015-07-29T02:32:13Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Congrats to someone who has stayed married and happy!🙂 Who said anything about happy? 😃 (I kid, I kid!) ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2015, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-of-today-i-have-been-married-more-than-half-my-life/726432/8 "2015-07-29T12:39:36Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > We were married a month after my 29th birthday, and we had our 29th anniversary a month ago. Yesterday I had been married exactly half my life, and today I have been married longer than I was not! Congrats to you and Mrs. **Cadfael**! I was 26 when we married, and that was 33 years ago. Or else it was six weeks ago - sometimes that’s how it feels. And I still have no idea what she is going to say next. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2015, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-of-today-i-have-been-married-more-than-half-my-life/726432/9 "2015-07-29T12:44:24Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > We were married a month after my 29th birthday, and we had our 29th anniversary a month ago. Yesterday I had been married exactly half my life, and today I have been married longer than I was not! > > Where does the time go? Congratulations. However I apologize in advance because I am required to add the following; If you killed her on your wedding night you’d be out by now. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2015, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-of-today-i-have-been-married-more-than-half-my-life/726432/10 "2015-07-29T12:58:24Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > Where does the time go? I don’t expect _that’s_ something you would hear many incarcerated felons say, so… congratulations on a happy marriage! ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2015, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-of-today-i-have-been-married-more-than-half-my-life/726432/11 "2015-07-29T14:23:47Z")
Congrats. I’ve got a bit over 2 years left to make that milestone although we started later than most folks, so it’s taking us a little longer than most folks to get there. Good times indeed. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2015, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-of-today-i-have-been-married-more-than-half-my-life/726432/12 "2015-07-29T14:40:07Z")
Married at age 30 and we’ll be celebrating anniversary 33 this month. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2015, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-of-today-i-have-been-married-more-than-half-my-life/726432/13 "2015-07-29T16:58:55Z")
Been married longer than I wasn’t. Been a doctor longer than I wasn’t. Been clean and sober longer than I wasn’t (If I count those first 13 years of youthful abstinence as clean and sober ones, anyway). Future goals: Being on SDMB longer than I wasn’t. Being an MI survivor longer than I’d not had an MI (18+ years in so far on that one). Congrats to **BrotherCadfael** on achieving that status. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2015, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-of-today-i-have-been-married-more-than-half-my-life/726432/14 "2015-07-29T18:25:01Z")
Congrats and welcome to the club! I was married at 25 and am now 51! We started dating, however, when I was 19 so "years with her " far out number “years without her”. I’m in for life without parole and no time off for good behavior. Not that I practice good behavior anyway… ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2015, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-of-today-i-have-been-married-more-than-half-my-life/726432/15 "2015-07-29T18:36:38Z")
My parents were 22 when they married, and Mom died at 66 so they were married 2/3 of their lives. The nerd in me thinks that’s cool! Many happy returns, **BrotherCadfael**! ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2015, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-of-today-i-have-been-married-more-than-half-my-life/726432/16 "2015-07-29T18:58:03Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > Been married longer than I wasn’t. > > Been a doctor longer than I wasn’t. > > Been clean and sober longer than I wasn’t (If I count those first 13 years of youthful abstinence as clean and sober ones, anyway). > > Future goals: Being on SDMB longer than I wasn’t. Being an MI survivor longer than I’d not had an MI (18+ years in so far on that one). > > Congrats to **BrotherCadfael** on achieving that status. Michigan can still kill you yet! StG ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2015, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-of-today-i-have-been-married-more-than-half-my-life/726432/17 "2015-07-29T19:50:12Z")
> [@StGermain](#): > > Michigan can still kill you yet! > > StG Old Michigan steams like a young man’s dreams, As it tries yet again to destroy me. My place on the shore of that mighty, deadly lake has been my true home all my life. I did live for a time in Flint and Livonia, and that was less deadly than I imagined it would be. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2015, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-of-today-i-have-been-married-more-than-half-my-life/726432/18 "2015-07-29T22:12:20Z")
Got married at 27. In three more years, should I live so long, I will have spent 2/3 of my life with my mate.