# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![Fir\_na\_tine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Fir\_na\_tine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fir_na_tine)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2019, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/81 "2019-02-19T14:33:18Z")
It was 49 years mid January. Good times… ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2019, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/82 "2019-02-19T14:41:12Z")
Together 30 years, will celebrate 28th anniversary in May. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![PoppaSan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/poppasan/32/189_2.png) [@PoppaSan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoppaSan)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2019, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/83 "2019-02-20T02:34:48Z")
> [@commasense](#): > > Met my wife-to-be in college sometime in 1980-81, but we were slightly more than acquaintances and she was with the guy she would be married to for _ **13 years** _. Another _ **13-year** _ relationship followed that. Meanwhile, I had no marriages or even serious relationships. > > In October 2009 we reconnected, things clicked, I proposed nine months later, and we were married nine months after that, in April 2011. So we’re coming up on eight years of wedded bliss (seriously). Hope you enjoy your next 3-5 years together. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Pithily\_Effusive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pithily_effusive/32/252_2.png) [@Pithily\_Effusive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pithily_Effusive)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2019, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/84 "2019-02-20T09:24:59Z")
Which time? Or, total? ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2019, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/85 "2019-02-20T11:27:37Z")
_Officially_ married, 28 although I usually round up to 30 for convenience and because we were a couple that long. Alas, he died in 2017. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2019, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/86 "2019-02-21T14:18:18Z")
> [@PoppaSan](#): > > Hope you enjoy your next 3-5 years together. 🆒 [Hey! I resemble that remark!](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21489886&postcount=101) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2019, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/87 "2019-02-21T15:31:30Z")
> [@InsomniaMama](#): > > Smartest thing we ever did was get married in 2000. Makes the math so easy. We were married in 2001, I keep getting the math wrong. We’ve been married [del]18 and a half[/del] 17 and a half years. This may, we’ll have been together twenty years. Our first movie we saw together was Phantom Menace. Luckily, she still liked me. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2019, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/88 "2019-02-21T15:34:53Z")
My wife and I spend a weekend in Kos, Greece last June to celebrate our 20th anniversary. ---
**Author:** ![Daylate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9dc877/32.png) [@Daylate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daylate)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2019, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/89 "2019-02-21T20:53:33Z")
D-Day (makes it easy to remember) of 2019 will make it 60 years. Always remember the story about a couple who had been married for 75 years, and were being interviewed by the local newspaper. Finally the reporter asked the wife if she had ever, at any time, contemplated divorce. Her emphatic answer was “Never divorce!. Murder a couple of times, but never divorce”. ---
**Author:** ![sunstone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunstone/32/3372_2.png) [@sunstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunstone)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2019, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/90 "2019-02-22T02:33:08Z")
54 years married, but 58 together as a couple. And she is still wonderful! ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2019, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/91 "2019-02-22T20:20:14Z")
Married for 26 years in total. Dated the first one for 10 years, stayed married to her for another 15. Dated the second one for 5 months, been happily married to her for 10 years. I had lots of theories about “why” when the first marriage was failing, but it has only been the amazingness of the second marriage that has clued me in to why the first didn’t work out. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2019, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/92 "2019-02-23T02:10:20Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > We celebrated 30 years in January. Us too! ---
**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:** [June 1, 2019, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/93 "2019-06-01T17:06:16Z")
i will answer this one day ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2019, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/94 "2019-06-01T20:33:59Z")
Not married, but happily living in sin for eleven years. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2019, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/95 "2019-06-01T20:41:01Z")
6 years this October. ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2019, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/96 "2019-06-01T21:02:51Z")
Married February 29,1988…you figure it out:D ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_McQwark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@Steve\_McQwark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_McQwark)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2019, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/97 "2019-06-02T00:13:13Z")
My wife and I have been married 21 years, together 23. A guy I went to school with had his 36th year anniversary last fall and people were congratulating him and his wife on Facebook for being successfully married for so long. He pointed out that his parents had been married for 74 years, so his marriage wasn’t even to the halfway point yet. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2019, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/98 "2019-06-02T09:26:54Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > 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: You rushed things!!! I waited a whole week! We were also an April wedding. 2006, so 13 years. I had been married for 16 years before, but separated for three years. My ex wouldn’t agree to a divorce for the longest time, and under Japanese law, it was very hard to force the issue until she agreed. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2019, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/99 "2019-06-02T15:14:33Z")
7 years this July, first for her, it was my 3-1/3 marriage\*. - 1st marriage lasted 3 years, 2nd for 2 weeks then we had it annulled, that’s the 1/2. 2nd lasted 17 years, it shouldn’t have lasted that long. I wanted out after about 4. The 3rd and current will be my last. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2019, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513/100 "2019-06-02T15:33:10Z")
> [@eenerms](#): > > Married February 29,1988…you figure it out:D So you’ve only had seven anniversaries. So have I, and I got married in 2011! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-married/829513.md?page=6)