# How long have you been married? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 14, 2019, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513 "2019-02-14T01:15:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lubricious\_Integument](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/82dd89/32.png) [@Lubricious\_Integument](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lubricious_Integument)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/1 "2019-02-14T01:15:37Z")
I celebrated my 10th wedding anniversary today. We are still going strong after 17 years together. Ten years used to sound long but now it seems like it just happened. How long have you been together/married? ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/2 "2019-02-14T01:18:04Z")
Thirty nine years if you count shacking up the first two. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/3 "2019-02-14T01:20:37Z")
Congratulations!!! **Suburban Plankton** and I will be married 26 years in May. We’ve been together for 28 years. ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/4 "2019-02-14T01:22:12Z")
This May, I’ll married to my wife for 5 years, the longest I’ve been married to anybody. 🆒 We were together for a little over 2 years before that. No indicators that we won’t keep going 😃 ---
**Author:** ![D\_Anconia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/5 "2019-02-14T01:30:53Z")
Thirty years in September. ---
**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:** [February 14, 2019, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/6 "2019-02-14T01:53:44Z")
55 years one month from tomorrow. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/7 "2019-02-14T02:05:39Z")
A month of Sundays. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/8 "2019-02-14T02:14:21Z")
In a week an a month, it’ll be 24 years. ---
**Author:** ![nonacetone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonacetone/32/2819_2.png) [@nonacetone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nonacetone)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/9 "2019-02-14T02:33:51Z")
We just had our 34th. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/10 "2019-02-14T02:38:47Z")
Ain’t _no way_ I’m answering this! ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/11 "2019-02-14T02:50:20Z")
I met the Incomparable Sunflower on May 19th 1972. We were married on May 17, 1975 This spring we will have been a couple 47 years and married 44 years. ---
**Author:** ![InsomniaMama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ad7895/32.png) [@InsomniaMama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InsomniaMama)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/12 "2019-02-14T03:30:40Z")
Smartest thing we ever did was get married in 2000. Makes the math so easy. ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/13 "2019-02-14T03:31:53Z")
23 years this August. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/14 "2019-02-14T03:40:31Z")
Thirty-eight years. ---
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/15 "2019-02-14T03:44:46Z")
30 in July. ---
**Author:** ![jaycat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat/32/3015_2.png) [@jaycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaycat)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/16 "2019-02-14T03:52:14Z")
25 years. 40, with the windchill. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/17 "2019-02-14T04:11:00Z")
15 years this September. Together 17 years. ---
**Author:** ![svd678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@svd678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/svd678)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/18 "2019-02-14T04:21:03Z")
66 years in June. Irritating that we had to buy a recent copy of our wedding license to prove my wife changed her name 66 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/19 "2019-02-14T04:24:07Z")
27 years is coming up shortly. It either seems like just yesterday or an eternity, depending. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/20 "2019-02-14T04:28:30Z")
46 years this coming June. I met my wife two years before that. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513.md?page=2)