Are you satisfied with your spouse?

[Jimturner]

I have been married to my wife for 45 years and I am truly happier every year. I hit the jackpot and am so thankful she has tolerated me and allowed me to love her all these years. Happy 45 years Honey.

[graciegirl]

I have been married to my wife for 45 years and I am truly happier every year. I hit the jackpot and am so thankful she has tolerated me and allowed me to love her all these years. Happy 45 years Honey.



How are you both enjoying your new puppy?

[golfing eagles]

I have been married to my wife for 45 years and I am truly happier every year. I hit the jackpot and am so thankful she has tolerated me and allowed me to love her all these years. Happy 45 years Honey.

Happy Anniversary. What a wonderful thought you expressed and shared with the rest of us. Here's to the next 45 years!
PS--the title of the thread might generate some comments that aren't as wonderful:1rotfl:

[jnieman]

Happy Anniversary. What a wonderful thought you expressed and shared with the rest of us. Here's to the next 45 years!
PS--the title of the thread might generate some comments that aren't as wonderful:1rotfl:

Time to get out the popcorn. :popcorn:

[jebartle]

He spoils me rotten, I'm not sure I deserve it, but I'm loving it for 40 years.
Jimturner you have me beat by 5 years.

[dewilson58]

CONGRATS.

It's amazing how we find the perfect fit.

[Jimturner]

How are you both enjoying your new puppy?

What puppy? We have two Siamese cats.

[Jimturner]

He spoils me rotten, I'm not sure I deserve it, but I'm loving it for 40 years.
Jimturner you have me beat by 5 years.

Keep up the good work and remember, as we age men lose testosterone and women gain it so things gets even better for the women. My lady tolerated me through my jerk years so I give her more love an tenderness now than before. We both laugh about the transformation and how it has affected our feelings for each other. As we men age we recognize how special our wives are. I love you honey.

[Villager Joyce]

I'm married to a male chauvinist pig, but he's my male chauvinist pig and I love him. Besides, who else would put up with me for 33 years?

[Jimturner]

I'm married to a male chauvinist pig, but he's my male chauvinist pig and I love him. Besides, who else would put up with me for 33 years?

Most men are chauvinist pigs. I sure was, but count on the drop in testosterone as he ages to make him a sensitive and caring husband.

[rubicon]

My wife and I have been together since the age of 14. So we literally grew up together. We have been told repeatedly that our relationship had been forged in heaven. My daughter commented once that we made marriage look easy upon which I apologized.

We like so many here have gone through more significant life events then we care to remember and it is within these challenges that you test a marriage and the person you have chosen.

And I can say with all honesty that she is the only woman I ever loved...she was my first love, my greatest love, and she will be my last love

[TheVillageChicken]

I married a 17 year old girl...........49 years ago. There is no way I could have done better, and luck had a lot to do with it.

I was three weeks from finishing my USAF technical training when two official looking guys came into our classroom to run a scam on the nine of us in that class. They said that we were all going either Turkey or Pakistan and if we had a preference between those two places, we needed to go volunteer for the one we wanted. After some uninformed thought, I chose Turkey and proceeded to assignments to volunteer. As I was filling in a form to start a security clearance investigation, an NCO grabbed the form and exclaimed, "You've been arrested?" I told him that I had been arrested four times and placed on probation twice. He wadded up the form and told me to get lost....that these assignments required a clearance one level higher than Top Secret and I had no chance of getting that clearance. About a week later, the assignments came down. Eight guys went to Turkey and Pakistan and I went to England. When I got there, they told me that I needed the same clearance that the NCO said I would never get. I took two months, but I got the TS/SCI anyway. While stationed in England, I met my wife who had Polish parents and had been born in a refugee camp near Cambridge.

If I hadn't been a juvenile delinquent and if Hitler hadn't invaded Poland, we would not have met and would not have had all these wonderful years raising a family together.

[Barefoot]

My wife and I have been together since the age of 14. So we literally grew up together. And I can say with all honesty that she is the only woman I ever loved...she was my first love, my greatest love, and she will be my last love

Wow, that is such a romantic and beautiful story. I love to hear Rubicon talk about his wife.

[Jimturner]

Well, it's never too late to meet your sole mate, I thank my lucky stars every day, I met mine when we were both young allowing us all these years to share. Rubicon, my love was seventeen also and we were told so many times by so many that it would never work as I was 21. We are still holding hands and smiling 45 years later.

[Gerald]

My wife told me to say we are happy.

[jebartle]

Happy wife, happy life!





My wife told me to say we are happy.

[ConnieNonnie]

Hi. I love reading the happy stories. And Gerald - thank you for
The smile. I am happily married for 41 yrs to my HS sweetheart.
My parents just celebrated 70 yrs.

[Ecuadog]

The last time we talked about this happiness stuff, my wife told me that she has given me the best years of her life. I asked her, "If that was the best, what do I have to look forward to?"

She now introduces me to everyone as her first husband and I have to sleep facing the wall.

[Callaway Guy]

My wife and I have been together for 18 years; they all haven't been wonderful because I was at such a low point in my life that the first few years were, well, I'd like to have those years as a mulligan. She is the love of my life, my soulmate and my rest of my life partner. I can honestly say I wouldn't be "here" (not just The Villages) if it wasn't for her.

Due to her career, she never was married or had kids before she met me. The day we married, she became a wife, step-mom and grandmother all in one day and she has embraced my kids like her own ever since. Wave to her if you see her in her cart or on the course, she's the one that will have angel wings on.

[KeepingItReal]

I have been married to my wife for 45 years and I am truly happier every year. I hit the jackpot and am so thankful she has tolerated me and allowed me to love her all these years. Happy 45 years Honey.

Great life, 47 years here, she was 17 and I had just turned 19, in the Air Force at Biloxi MS......Wouldn't change a thing...

Song starts at 1:29, it's worth the wait... Happy To Be Stuck With You

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J08ZwySCoJ8

[dbussone]

Well, it's never too late to meet your sole mate, I thank my lucky stars every day, I met mine when we were both young allowing us all these years to share. Rubicon, my love was seventeen also and we were told so many times by so many that it would never work as I was 21. We are still holding hands and smiling 45 years later.


When we married, 46 years ago this past August, my wife was 20 and I was 22. The years get better as we age and I assure you I am the lucky one.

[SouthOfTheBorder]

I have been married to my wife for 45 years and I am truly happier every year. I hit the jackpot and am so thankful she has tolerated me and allowed me to love her all these years. Happy 45 years Honey.

Congratulations!

Judi and I are celebrating our 54th Anniversary today 9/30/2015. We grew up in a very small town. Graduated together from HS and married 4 years later.

It just keeps getting better.

Don

[dbussone]

Congratulations!



Judi and I are celebrating our 54th Anniversary today 9/30/2015. We grew up in a very small town. Graduated together from HS and married 4 years later.



It just keeps getting better.



Don


And congratulations to the 2 of you. How wonderful.

[Jimturner]

My wife and I have been together for 18 years; they all haven't been wonderful because I was at such a low point in my life that the first few years were, well, I'd like to have those years as a mulligan. She is the love of my life, my soulmate and my rest of my life partner. I can honestly say I wouldn't be "here" (not just The Villages) if it wasn't for her.

Due to her career, she never was married or had kids before she met me. The day we married, she became a wife, step-mom and grandmother all in one day and she has embraced my kids like her own ever since. Wave to her if you see her in her cart or on the course, she's the one that will have angel wings on.

Never give up. Wonderful story Caloway Guy.

[tomwed]

I find it interesting how lovey dovey all these men are now that they found out their wives are packing heat.

[Lovey2]

I find it interesting how lovey dovey all these men are now that they found out their wives are packing heat.

You kill me!!:1rotfl:

[golfing eagles]

I find it interesting how lovey dovey all these men are now that they found out their wives are packing heat.

Somehow I knew you were going to post something like that! I'm just miffed I didn't think of it first

[tomwed]

Yes--it inspired me to write a new love song for my upcoming hit musical "Grannie Get Your Gun".
The title: "Because I'm Uzi"

[golfing eagles]

Yes--it inspired me to write a new love song for my upcoming hit musical "Grannie Get Your Gun".
The title: "Because I'm Uzi"

and I'll add, from Phantom, "The power of the magnum of the night"

[Taltarzac725]

There seem to be a lot of successful long term relationships among men and women here in the Villages as well as women and women. I do run across couples who just recently got together too. One of these you always or almost always see holding hands. Someone asked them about their hotel bills and they just responded that there are always holding hands as they need one another to hold themselves up.


I also know of a few Brady Bunch situations where a man and a woman who were married before end up having around 16+ children and dozens of grandkids and great grandchildren because they found a new love late in life but have had a lot of practice with getting it right.

My own high school experiences at Earl Wooster High School in Reno, Nevada had a very profound effect on me, so I never met someone who could handle all that baggage. Maybe if I had moved to Iowa back in 1990 or so with Jennifer from Minneapolis things would be different but I kind of doubt it given my propensity to keep on fighting battles that to others seem unwinnable. Jennifer seems to be doing very well as do some of my past crushes or romances who I do try to keep track of as best I can. Jennifer got married while practicing law in a small Iowa town and trying to become an elected judge. She and I had gone to the University of Minnesota Law School and were Classes of 1989 and 1990. She had been one of my students when I was a Student Director of Legal Assistance to Minnesota Prisoners. She became a Student Director for Legal Assistance to Minnesota Prisoners at Minnesota Correctional Facility--Stillwater after I graduated from the U of MN Law School in 1989.

Jennifer was from the Wisconsin town of Oconomowoc which is close to Menomonee Falls, WI.

I hung out with the girl who lived next door to me in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin in the 1960s after she had moved to a suburb of Denver in 1982 or so. I went to the University of Denver Graduate School of Librarianship and Information Management in 1983 and looked up Jean soon after arriving there in the Summer of 1983. Jean was working at a department store not two miles or so from the University of Denver and planned to get a MA in Librarianship and Information Management. We had fun for a while but she was still wary of relationships because of a divorce. She went on to get a MA in Librarianship at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and married a lawyer in the Boston area. I knew Jean from infancy. She was around two years older than me. I had graduated from the University of Denver in May of 1984 and helped my parents move from Reno, Nevada to Scottsdale, AZ in June of 1984 before starting work as an Indexer/Abstractor at Information Access Company in Belmont, CA from 1984-1986.

It is nice to hear stories of long term successful relationships here in the Villages.