# the happily married thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 15, 2000, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-happily-married-thread/12872 "2000-01-15T06:37:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2000, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-happily-married-thread/12872/1 "2000-01-15T06:37:00Z")
over in Satan’s Divorce Thread (man, that sounds weird), psycat90 said: > [@](#): > > Somebody start a Happily married thread in MPSIMS. so I will. My beloved and I have been married 5 years, 3 months, 15 days, and are still going strong. Hooray!! * * * and the stars o’erhead were dancing heel to toe ---
**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:** [January 15, 2000, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-happily-married-thread/12872/2 "2000-01-15T06:44:00Z")
My parents were married for 47 years until my father’s death in March. In that time, I never heard one angry word from either side. Growing up, we were more likely to get in trouble for having upset the other parent (“Do you know how worried your mother was? I never want you to put her through that agin!”) than for whatever our misdeeds were. At the end, when my father was dying of lung cancer and didn’t even have the strength to roll over, my mother slept with a ribbon tied to his wrist and hers, so he didn’t try to get out of bed by himself. She knew he didn’t have the strength, but she couldn’t give up that lifeline. I would give anything to have what they had. StG ---
**Author:** ![ChrisCTP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@ChrisCTP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChrisCTP)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2000, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-happily-married-thread/12872/3 "2000-01-15T06:45:00Z")
Byron (Neobican) and I have been married for 3 years, 7 months, and 14 days and we haven’t killed, maimed or permanently scarred each other yet. (Unless you count these unsightly stretch marks from the pregnancy that he caused…) * * * “…being normal is not necessarily a virtue. It rather denotes a lack of courage.” ---
**Author:** ![pluto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f08c70/32.png) [@pluto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pluto)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2000, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-happily-married-thread/12872/4 "2000-01-15T08:07:00Z")
What a bunch of neophytes. Sue and I will have been married twenty-two years in February. I’m buying her a bonsai tree for our anniversary and we’re taking a trip to Utah to visit our eldest (in college). It hasn’t always been perfectly smooth sailing (with four kids, three dogs, and, at one point, a Dodge K-car) but there _has_ always been a core of commitment and devotion and, dare I say it, love which has sustained us through the rough patches. * * * “To do her justice, I can’t see that she could have found anything nastier to say if she’d thought it out with both hands for a fortnight.” Dorothy L. Sayers _Busman’s Honeymoon_ ---
**Author:** ![Lemmon2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lemmon2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemmon2000)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2000, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-happily-married-thread/12872/5 "2000-01-15T11:29:00Z")
I have been married for almost 8 years. It isn’t always blissful but I wouldn’t trade my life for anything. Two kids ages 5 and 4 make life so interesting! ---
**Author:** ![Krispy\_Original](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ec9cab/32.png) [@Krispy\_Original](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Krispy_Original)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2000, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-happily-married-thread/12872/6 "2000-01-15T12:14:00Z")
My situation is very similar pluto. Lived together out of wedlock for 2.5 years, married 18.5 years…total of 21 years together so far. Four kids (two of which will start college next fall), 1 dog and 2 cats…we also regrettably owned a Dodge K-car at one point… * * * Krispy Original – voted SDMB’s 19th most popular poster (1999) ---
**Author:** ![Mullinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2000, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-happily-married-thread/12872/7 "2000-01-15T12:30:00Z")
Well, looks like I am the newest to the marriage seen, but for the past 1 year and 4 months we couldn’t be happier. * * * Well, shut my mouth. It’s also illegal to put squirrels down your pants for the purposes of gambling. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2000, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-happily-married-thread/12872/8 "2000-01-15T16:16:00Z")
10 years of marriage and counting. Not to mention the 2 kids who I love more than life itself, and the beagle who I give more than his fair share of the bed to… 🙂 🙂 🙂 Marriage is great when it works! 🙂 🙂 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2000, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-happily-married-thread/12872/9 "2000-01-15T16:22:00Z")
I’ve actually done some similar threads, wondering if I’m the only person in the world who has love and respect in my marriage. I’m happy to see others who feel the same. We don’t bicker or yell. When we disagree, we discuss things like adults. Best of all, we adore each other and trust one another. Marriage is great! Zette together 7 years, married 2 years in March * * * Love is like popsicles…you get too much you get too high. Not enough and you’re gonna die… [Click here for some GOOD news for a change](http://www.binghamtonpress.com/binghamtonnews/local/Sanews5.html)[Zettecity](http://www.angelfire.com/ny3/zettecity/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![psycat90](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@psycat90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psycat90)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2000, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-happily-married-thread/12872/10 "2000-01-15T17:50:00Z")
Thanks guys. I feel much better now. I’m still searching though. Over in the ‘who would you date on this board’ thread, SaxFace suggested mixing personalities to make the perfect date. That seems to by my real life dilemma. I’ve dated some great guys, but haven’t found the “blend” I would consider spending the rest of my life with. Maybe I should return that “How to Find a Mate at Your Local Correctional Facility” book. 😃 * * * If your head is wax, don’t walk in the sun. -Benjamin Franklin ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2000, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-happily-married-thread/12872/11 "2000-01-16T06:05:00Z")
Yeah, I’m married too. Just a hair over four interesting years. Being married to a musician is not boring, that’s for sure. I’m sure he says the same thing about being married to me, though. 🙂 * * * “The quickest way to a man’s heart is through his ribcage.” --anonymous redhead ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2000, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-happily-married-thread/12872/12 "2000-01-16T06:36:00Z")
Together almost 6 years, married for 3. Still get sappy. “I love you.” “I love you more.” “There’s more of me to love you.” “There’s more of you to love.” You had to be there, maybe. ---
**Author:** ![Lucretia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@Lucretia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucretia)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2000, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-happily-married-thread/12872/13 "2000-01-16T06:57:00Z")
Got pregnant at age 20, within a month of meeting each other, got married six weeks before the baby was born, and everyone was taking bets that it wouldn’t last a year. We’ve been proving them all wrong for the past 13 years and 3 kids, and he’s still the only man I could ever see sharing my life with. Statistics don’t mean a thing! ---
**Author:** ![coosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@coosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coosa)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2000, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-happily-married-thread/12872/14 "2000-01-15T19:41:00Z")
Married 17 years and still going strong! My husband is the most wonderful man on earth and no, you can’t have him! * * * It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. - Aristotle ---
**Author:** ![WillGolfForFood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/82dd89/32.png) [@WillGolfForFood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WillGolfForFood)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2000, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-happily-married-thread/12872/15 "2000-01-15T19:42:00Z")
We celebrated our 20th wedding anniversary last summer. Two wonderful daughters, the oldest of which starts college in the fall. Only one dog, and no K-cars, so it looks like Pluto’s slightly ahead of us in every category… ---
**Author:** ![N\_oR\_jVIaL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce7236/32.png) [@N\_oR\_jVIaL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N_oR_jVIaL)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2000, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-happily-married-thread/12872/16 "2000-01-15T19:53:00Z")
My grandparents have been married for sixty years. They both claim that the only reason they married was because no one else lived close enough. (the same reason that his brother married her sister) Granddad says that it doesn’t really matter _who_ you marry. He says that a successful marriage is just a matter of keeping your word to someone for thirty or fourty years … until you get used to their aggravating ways. She says that you just have to learn to ignore some old contrary bastards … because you’re not likely to _ever_ grow very fond of them. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2000, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-happily-married-thread/12872/17 "2000-01-15T23:16:00Z")
It’ll be nine years in May, and getting better all the time. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![GraceTX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c4cdca/32.png) [@GraceTX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GraceTX)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2000, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-happily-married-thread/12872/18 "2000-01-16T04:18:00Z")
Hubby and I were friends 2 years before we ever dated. The things that made him a great friend were the things that made me fall in love with him. We dated for 6 years and have now been married 4 years, 4 months, and 7 days. * * * “Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be.” ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2000, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-happily-married-thread/12872/19 "2000-01-16T04:55:00Z")
UndeadDude and I have been married 8½ years and going strong 🙂 [http://opalcat.com/wedding.html](http://opalcat.com/wedding.html) * * * – Teeming Millions: [http://fathom.org/teemingmillions](http://fathom.org/teemingmillions) “Meat flaps, yellow!” - DrainBead, naked co-ed Twister chat O p a l C a t [www.opalcat.com](http://www.opalcat.com) ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2000, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-happily-married-thread/12872/20 "2000-01-16T05:22:00Z")
My wife and I were friends for 1 1/2 years before we started dating. We started dating after kissing on New Years '95. We were engaged in June, married in August '96, and we’ll have our first child in March '00. And every night as we settle in to sleep, I tell her I love her, and I mean it. * * * I looked in the mirror today/My eyes just didn’t seem so bright I’ve lost a few more hairs/I think I’m going bald - Rush [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-happily-married-thread/12872.md?page=2)