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RockaFowler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 09:07 PM
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Are your parents still married to each other??
Edited on Tue Dec-20-05 09:08 PM by RockaFowler
The reason I ask is that my parents have been divorced since I was 4, so that is all I know. Anyway, my whole life my mom and dad always talked bad about each other. Now, they like each other. I wish it was like that back in the 70's and they were still together. I don't know maybe I am getting melancholy because of the holidays
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YellowRubberDuckie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 09:08 PM
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1. Mine probably would have been, but my dad died.
:shrug:
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 09:08 PM
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2. Yep, 31 years last month
They fight like hell, but it works for them :)
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RockaFowler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 09:10 PM
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5. I wish they could have argued more
It was tough on my brother more because he was 10 years old and he didn't understand why they were no longer together
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supernova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 09:10 PM
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3. Mine were married for 48 years
They unfortunately passed away several years ago. But they looked after each other always.
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johnnie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 09:10 PM
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4. Yup
45 years. They like to argue, but it is funny to me.
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NNadir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 09:11 PM
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6. No, my parents are dead.
My father stayed married to my mother until she died. He married my stepmother and they stayed married until he died.

My stepmother says she's too old to marry a third time. (Her first husband died.) She's a young and quite beautiful 75 though, and she still has time to change her mind. No dates though.

I was a very lucky man in the parents department. None of my three parents ever said a bad word about one another.
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Fenris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 09:11 PM
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7. Yep.
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Duncan Grant Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 09:12 PM
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8. 46 years and counting...
I don't think they've ever spent more than 3 days apart and that was only twice during the 70's. They're fiercely devoted to one another. :)
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RockaFowler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 09:13 PM
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I'd Love That
That was really sweet. I have 40 years to go to catch up to your parents
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elshiva Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 09:13 PM
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9. YES! 27 years.
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miss_american_pie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 09:13 PM
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10. No
I was in kindie when they separated. TBH I have no idea how they stayed married as long as they did.
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Burma Jones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 09:14 PM
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11. Nope, they conceived me, got married and 16 years
and two additional sons later, they split. Dad stuck around, assumed custody and kept us going, rare in the late 1970s.
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RockaFowler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 09:15 PM
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12. My Dad raised us as well
My mom had issues in the 70's and my dad got custody. He was the original Mr Mom
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RevCheesehead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 09:15 PM
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13. 46 years, yesterday.
I am very fortunate. :loveya:
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RockaFowler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 09:17 PM
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15. Tell them Congrats
I feel like I missed something because they divorced when I was so young.
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eeyore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 09:15 PM
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14. My parents will celebrate their 50th next summer!
Pretty amazing, and they really are perfect together.

I'm one of the lucky few, I guess. :)
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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 09:37 PM
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16. Yes and have been for.... about 26, 27 years.
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 09:38 PM
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17. Yes. They have been married since 1959.
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greatauntoftriplets Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 09:39 PM
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18. Mine were married 58 years when my father died.
My mother is still alive and will be 94 next month.

They were older when I was born.
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AwakeAtLast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 09:45 PM
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19. Will be 39 years for my parents on Christmas Eve
Edited on Tue Dec-20-05 09:45 PM by WakeMeUp
My cousing sang Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer at their wedding!

Two sets of great-grandparents were married Dec. 24th, too.

I did NOT follow suit! :)

:hi:
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MissMillie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 09:52 PM
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20. 55 years and they still hold hands
To be married that long, I have to marry a 20 year old man tomorrow, and I have to live to be 96.

My mother met my father when she was 12 years old (he was 15). They dated for 4 years before she became preggers, and they got married.
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Straight Shooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 10:07 PM
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21. My parents have been married 57 years. Absolute devotion.
Among their 4 kids, though:

child #1 - married once, still married
child #2 - married 3 times, divorced 3 (probably 4 by now, LOL)
child #3 - married twice, divorced once
child #4 - married twice, divorced twice

Parents can set a good example of love and devotion, but sometimes it's just not in the cards for their children to have a lasting relationship with someone whom they can respect, love, and also have the hoochie-hots for over many many years.
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MountainLaurel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 10:13 PM
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22. Unfortunately, yes
We all would have been a lot better off if they weren't.
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 10:15 PM
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23. No, they divorced in 1985.
I forgot to give them anything for the 20th anniversary of the happiest day of thier lives. Bad daughter. ;)
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Lavender Brown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 10:16 PM
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24. Yes - 35 years
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CatBoreal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 10:20 PM
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25. Yup...
...37 bloody years.

I wish they'd divorce.
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