This weekend marked the 60th wedding anniversary for one set of my grandparents... The other set has been married 66 years. Holy crap. That is a LONG time. Now it is unlikely that I will live long enough to have a 60th wedding anniversary because all my grandparents got married pretty young. That is if I get married of course :)
Anyway, it's just amazing to me... 60 years. They have been doing this for 60 years. They lived through the depression, wars, living on mere dollars a week, death, and new life, and everything in between... and they are still together, united, solid. Not always happy, not always healthy but after all, the vows never promised that. How many people do you know that have that kind of commitment? How often do we as people give up on something because it's hard or boring or not what we expected? Too often.
I LOVE this post. I pray I live long enough to be married 60 years. I've only been married for one year, and I can already tell you, it takes work and commitment and patience. I hope I'm lucky enough to be married for the next 60 years, and spend my whole life with my husband. How amazing that would be.
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