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Stories like these always bring a smile to my face and fill me with great hope that one day I'll find the same type of Love one that lasts forever.
My parents were together till there 41st wedding anniversay until my dad passed away. Married in a literally bombed out Catholic Church in Bavaria Germany at the end of World War II.
My grand parents made it until their 62st. Married the year my grand father returned from the front lines of World War I "The War to End All Wars."
Interestingly enough my Grandparents Adam and Martha gave the same exact advice as Frank Milford (in the story belowl)
Adam "If you think its going to be story book marriage happliy ever after your dead wrong. She's going to argue with you, disagree with you and times boil your blood pressure with her stubborness to see things your way. But thats the beauty of it. For in her challenging you and going up against your male ego She makes you a better person for it fore you begin to see the world therw new eyes 'her eyes' (the femine) and you see Her in a whole new light and Love. A Love stronger then that when you first saw her young and vibrent and were so taken away with her in love (and in lust. he'd used to giggle) and tripped over you feet in the open air market to ask her out to a dance."
Martha will completely agree saying the same about him but would add. "An trip he did to point nearly knocking himself out on the edge of the fruit stand. I felt a bit sorry for him and agreed to his request. But my your grandfather looked handsome in his uniform."
Said to say people today are so conditioned to the modern 'disposable and replacement' culture we live in. When your television stops working instead of having it repaired we get a new one, if your car stops working, instead of generally repairing it we get a new one. On top of this we live in a age of 'fast food' and 'instent gratification. We expect satisfaction instantly; including relationships and when we don't get it we simply call it quits and move on to next, and the next and next, and the next.
Is it any wonder that in today's world that 50% to 60% of all marriages end in divorce in the first 3- 7 years and that 70% of people today are on their 3-4th marriage??
Our modern generation has lost something, something important that generation of our the Milfords or our Grandparents and Parents had in spades. That is a willingness to see the world their (and prespective) threw the eyes of their loved ones and the greatest sacrfice of the Self in a willingness to compromise for the happiness of both!
Devlinn
Couple Celebrate 81st Anniversary
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(May 27) - A British husband and wife who say a little arguing and a "happy outlook" keep them together just celebrated their 81st wedding anniversary.
Frank Milford, 101, and his wife, Anita, 100, were married on May 26, 1928. They are currently the longest-married couple in the United Kingdom, the Daily Mail said.
Frank and Anita Milford celebrated their 81st wedding anniversary Tuesday. Frank, 101, and Anita, 100, live together at a nursing home in Plymouth, England. They are currently the longest-married couple in the United Kingdom.
The couple, who met at a YMCA dance in 1926, celebrated their anniversary Tuesday at the nursing home where they live in Plymouth, southwestern England.
"We're always here for each other. It is all about give and take on both sides," Frank Milford said last year. "You need a happy outlook and to just get on with it. I don't know where the years have gone to. It's marvelous really."
The couple also credited "a little argument every day" for their long union.
"They are happy," their 74-year-old son, Frank.Jr., told the Mail. "They spend most of their time together, with dad being almost completely deaf and blind, so it's very difficult for him. Mum is a chatterbox and nothing has changed there."
In addition to their son, the Milfords have a 79-year-old daughter, Marie, as well as six grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
