[jebartle]

Happy wife, happy life!

Originally Posted by Gerald

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.

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]

Originally Posted by 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.

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]

Originally Posted by 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.

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]

Originally Posted by 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.

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]

Originally Posted by SouthOfTheBorder

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]

Originally Posted by 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.

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]

Originally Posted by tomwed

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

You kill me!!

[golfing eagles]

Originally Posted by tomwed

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]

Originally Posted by 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"

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.