Welcome to the final installment of the responses to my informal survey about long and successful marriage/relationships. These responses were collected over the summer and fall of 2022, after being inspired by an invitation to a 70th wedding anniversary celebration and our own 40th. I am so grateful for those to took the time […]
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Welcome back to my blog series about successful marriages/partnerships. Today’s article is about how raising children impacted the couples’ relationships. I am very grateful for the candid responses; it couldn’t have been easy to share negative experiences. I chose the featured photo of an elephant and her babies because elephants are known to have
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Welcome back to my series on the secrets to long and successful marriages and relationships! Todays results are responses to the question “Was it Love at first sight?” Were there immediate sparks, giddiness, or even fireworks? There were two (2) definitive “No” responses. The rest were grouped into Yes, Mutual Attraction, and Friendship.
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In June, 2022, we were invited to attend a 70th wedding anniversary! It is an event so rare, I only found one article that included a statistic. It was about one of the world’s most famous couple – the late Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip, who celebrated their Platinum Wedding anniversary in 2017. In the
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This is wedding season, and I know of 3 weddings in the past month among our friends and extended family. We also attended a 70th wedding anniversary celebration! We are honoured to be among over 100 couples we know who have been together and/or married for 25 years or more. Those folks are doing
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