# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/41 "2019-02-14T16:41:32Z")
37 years in May. We dated for about two and a half years before that. My mom says the first thirty years are the hardest. In September she and my dad will have been married 70 years. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/42 "2019-02-14T16:42:44Z")
Started dating in May, 1977 (he was a senior, I was a sophomore). We were married on April 17, 1982. So we’ll be married 37 and together 42 this year. Our 6th grandchild was born on our 30th anniversary! There have been a lot of ups and a lot of downs, but we persevered. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/43 "2019-02-14T16:44:27Z")
Thirteen years. Big whoop, I’ve been posting here longer! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/44 "2019-02-14T16:46:38Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Thirteen years. Big whoop, I’ve been posting here longer! 🙂 8 1/2 years. Also been posting here longer. But we’ve been together almost 20 years. (had to wait unusually long time to get divorce finalized) ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/45 "2019-02-14T17:10:33Z")
Just passed 5 years. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/46 "2019-02-14T18:18:38Z")
> [@snowthx](#): > > 25 years in April. > > Twenty-five years. > > T.W.E.N.T.Y. F.I.V.E years. > > 😃 If you mean April 2018, same here, right down to the month. I was married to my first wife for 23 years, and since there were zero days between the divorce settlement and my remarriage, I’ve been married for 48 consecutive years. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![EscAlaMike](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/escalamike/32/4177_2.png) [@EscAlaMike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EscAlaMike)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/47 "2019-02-14T18:41:02Z")
Married for 12, together for 17. Since I’m 34, we’ve officially been together for half of my life 😃 ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/48 "2019-02-14T18:41:35Z")
44 years. It will be 45 on 30 June 2019. It’s been a helluva ride! ~VOW ---
**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, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/49 "2019-02-14T18:51:57Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > … since there were zero days between the divorce settlement and my remarriage… You’re clearly not one to waste time. ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/50 "2019-02-14T19:05:50Z")
13 years, last week. ---
**Author:** ![Mikemike2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikemike2/32/305_2.png) [@Mikemike2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikemike2)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/51 "2019-02-14T19:11:36Z")
20 years married, 23 years together ---
**Author:** ![PackerMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@PackerMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PackerMan)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/52 "2019-02-14T19:36:27Z")
21 years as of a week ago. I said “our marriage is old enough to drink!” ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/53 "2019-02-14T20:54:41Z")
> [@Bear\_Nenno](#): > > 13 years, last week. Same number of years, my anniversary was just a few days ago. We were like, unsuspecting wedding buddies or something. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Shinna\_Minna\_Ma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f08c70/32.png) [@Shinna\_Minna\_Ma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shinna_Minna_Ma)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/54 "2019-02-14T21:14:04Z")
June will be our 29th anniversary. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/55 "2019-02-14T21:30:57Z")
We celebrated 30 years in January. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/56 "2019-02-14T22:34:59Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > You’re clearly not one to waste time. Really had no choice, as I was leaving for an overseas posting three days later and she wouldn’t be joining me for another couple of months. It made a difference on the size of the apartment the embassy would provide. ---
**Author:** ![MacCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maccat/32/216_2.png) [@MacCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacCat)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/57 "2019-02-14T23:17:37Z")
> [@LH75](#): > > 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. We were married May 19, 1974, about three months after our first date on Valentine’s Day. So 44 years, 45 in three months. ---
**Author:** ![Jungian\_Camisole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8baadc/32.png) [@Jungian\_Camisole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jungian_Camisole)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2019, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/58 "2019-02-15T01:15:24Z")
28 years this Saturday, together 29, and it seems to be sticking. He doesn’t know that I’ve called his boss and cleared his work schedule next week. Las Vegas, here we come! ---
**Author:** ![janis\_and\_c0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janis_and_c0/32/21_2.png) [@janis\_and\_c0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janis_and_c0)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2019, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/59 "2019-02-15T01:33:08Z")
Been together almost 9 1/2 years, and married 7 years… next Monday. ---
**Author:** ![Patx2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/73ab20/32.png) [@Patx2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patx2)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2019, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/60 "2019-02-15T01:36:16Z")
Married 23 years, together 25. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513.md?page=4)