Marriage

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We celebrated our 52nd wedding anniversary yesterday. We certainly have no wise words about marriage, other than the simple fact that when you marry someone, you’re promising to share your LIVES with each other – in good times and bad. It’s a work in progress that involves thinking about the other person first, and nurturing your union each and every day.

Here are some quotes I like about marriage –

Don’t marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can’t live without. ~James C. Dobson

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility. ~George Levinger

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid. ~Harlan Miller

I figure that the degree of difficulty in combining two lives ranks somewhere between rerouting a hurricane and finding a parking place in downtown Manhattan. ~Claire Cloninger

A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year. ~Paul Sweeney

A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time. ~Anne Taylor Fleming

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. Katharine Hepburn

The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret. Henny Youngman

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Yesterday we celebrated the FIRST 52 years by sharing a seafood platter at The Dari. Today we begin the SECOND 52!

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16 responses to “Marriage

  1. Congratulations to the both of you!!!! That is so fabulous!!!!

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  2. Wow! So inspiring…this blessed me

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  3. Beautiful quotes. Congrats on your anniversary. That’s monumental!

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    • Thanks so much. It’s also amazing we haven’t killed each other yet. It helps to have nurture a really healthy sense of humor! :0) And now we’ve started the SECOND 52 years. Thanks for writing.

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  4. Congratulations, Linda on 52 years of marriage! My husband and I celebrated our 31st Anniversary on June 16th! I thoroughly enjoyed reading your blog and loved the marriage quotes.

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  5. Robert Partington

    or … “There is nothing more admirable than two people who see eye-to-eye, keeping house as man and wife, confounding their enemies, and delighting their friends.” (Homer, 9th century BC)

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