# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![BobBitchin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ea924/32.png) [@BobBitchin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobBitchin)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/21 "2019-02-14T04:45:53Z")
12 years :D:cool: ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/22 "2019-02-14T04:48:38Z")
33 1/3 years. (Wife didn’t understand why I bought her an LP four months after our anniversary…) ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/23 "2019-02-14T04:52:40Z")
25 years in April. Twenty-five years. T.W.E.N.T.Y. F.I.V.E years. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/24 "2019-02-14T04:53:01Z")
Married 12 years this June, together 14, have known each other for 21. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/25 "2019-02-14T06:28:24Z")
> [@svd678](#): > > 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. You have been married twice as long as I have been alive! You are indeed blessed. ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/26 "2019-02-14T06:56:39Z")
> [@snowthx](#): > > 25 years in April. April was a popular month. 28 years in April. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/27 "2019-02-14T07:19:39Z")
40 years, 41 in May. We met 47 years ago, but never lived closer than 600 miles apart until we got married. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/28 "2019-02-14T07:30:46Z")
We’ve been together over 31 years, but weren’t allowed to get married until 3.5 years ago (Thank you, SCOTUS). We got married on our shared birthday. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/29 "2019-02-14T09:26:26Z")
35 years, which is pretty amazing considering we dated only 4 weeks before eloping… ---
**Author:** ![pullin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@pullin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pullin)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/30 "2019-02-14T10:31:05Z")
> [@Ulfreida](#): > > Thirty nine years if you count shacking up the first two. Ditto. 39+ years, counting the year the gummint defined us as [POSSLQ’s](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSSLQ). ---
**Author:** ![FinsToTheLeft](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finstotheleft/32/2930_2.png) [@FinsToTheLeft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinsToTheLeft)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/31 "2019-02-14T10:36:52Z")
This summer will be 27 years together, 20 years married. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/32 "2019-02-14T12:04:32Z")
34 years together, 31 married ---
**Author:** ![Hermitian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hermitian/32/470_2.png) [@Hermitian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hermitian)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/33 "2019-02-14T14:40:15Z")
This makes me think of a certain event. I was married in August of 2003. My only other sibling, a sister, was getting married a few months later in December. So weddings and marriage were on our family’s mind. A few days after I and my wife returned home from our honeymoon my grandmother unexpectedly died. I remember leaving the funeral home and my grandfather put his arm around me and my sister as we walked out. He said that he and my grandmother had always talked about making to 50 years, and they were so close but didn’t make it. Even though he knew he would not be there to see it, he really hoped that we could make it to 50 for him. We are both going strong at 15 years. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/34 "2019-02-14T14:42:14Z")
Almost 10 years. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/35 "2019-02-14T14:47:28Z")
32 years last Aug. Got married \<9 mos after our first date. ---
**Author:** ![D.E.S.K.Top668](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@D.E.S.K.Top668](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D.E.S.K.Top668)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/36 "2019-02-14T14:51:30Z")
On 08-08-2019, it will be 21 years married, 23 years together. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/37 "2019-02-14T15:04:01Z")
Congrats, **LI**! The Heiress and I will hit the 28-year mark this August. I still smile when I remember that broiling hot Vermont day when we got married. Our three sons are almost all grown and we’re both in good health. Life is good. ---
**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:** [February 14, 2019, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/38 "2019-02-14T15:21:39Z")
Married June 13th, 1981. First date October 13th, 1973. First meeting sometime in the last week of August 1973, at the start of 11th grade. ---
**Author:** ![Jumpbass](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jumpbass/32/147_2.png) [@Jumpbass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jumpbass)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/39 "2019-02-14T15:47:02Z")
In September it will be 35 years. We got married on Labor Day weekend thinking that we’ll always have a long weekend for our anniversary. Then I became a professional musician and I always work on holiday weekends. At least sometimes it’s a nice out of town gig so she can come along. ---
**Author:** ![Buttercup\_Smith](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buttercup_smith/32/473_2.png) [@Buttercup\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buttercup_Smith)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/40 "2019-02-14T15:52:09Z")
35 years last December. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513.md?page=3)