Ok, lets say how many years of "happy togetherness" couples have had together....

[a kennedy]

gay and straight couples..... let's hear the years you've been happily or not, been together...... I'll start..... 34 years of, well, at least half of them were happy, so half of 34 years of happy. Next???

[OriginalGeek]

1. Married for 28 years next month

30 years together. Happy for all of them.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

2. About 30 years. Where their moments? Of course.

But at this stage of the game, who else would want us?

[question everything]

3. Married May 1978

So that is, hold it, need my calculator: 36 years.

I think by now we realize that we have been through so much losing jobs, several times, moving across the country, twice. Being there in "sickness and in health," losing parents that by now we just feel that we belong together, being there for each other for the next medical problem, finishing each other sentence, even sometimes wearing the same color combinations.. Just feeling comfortable around each other doing our own but also to each his and her interests.

One secret? We were not young wide eyes and we got married. We've known each other for many years - grad school - so when we made it official we've already matured and more or less set in our ways.

[onehandle]

4. 23 years next week. nt

[mysuzuki2]

5. My ex-wife and I had over 20 happy years.

Then we met and got married.

[femmocrat]

14. LOL

[Hangingon]

6. Married in February 1965

It has been wonderful!

[pscot]

7. 50 years

in 2015. It's been good.

[woodsprite]

8. 28.5 yrs so far, and all of them have been pretty darned happy,

Even the year I had to deal with a cancer diagnosis and the few years we were going through miscarriages. There were moments of being afraid or of heartbreak, but I've never thought of us as being unhappy.

[politicat]

9. 14 years.

15 in December.

2 disagreements, total. Neither lasted more than a couple hours.

[countryjake]

10. It'll be 21 yrs living together this fall...

no marriage involved. We've been happy with one another ever since the day we first met.

[csziggy]

11. It will be 37 years of marriage in a couple of weeks

And close to two years more we've been together.

[mnhtnbb]

12. We've been married 29 years

and known each other for 30 years.

There have been a lot of challenges along the way...but we are still together.

[femmocrat]

13. Almost 48 years since we met.

Married for 46 of them! We were so young!

[LWolf]

15. Well, let's see...

10 years of unhappy marriage the first time around.

10 years of happy, one year of unhappy marriage the second time around.

Currently 13 years of single: one ground zero horrific year, the rest...not so great, but have had their moments of content.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

16. We just celebrated 49 years of marriage.........wow.

I cannot imagine being married to anyone but him...

We complete each other.

[mokawanis]

17. Married for 32 years this August

Three kids and two grandchildren.

[cyberswede]

18. 27 years together, married for almost 19

Wow that seems a lot longer when I type it out! Seems like yesterday when we met.

[auntAgonist]

19. 14.5 years. Happily married to my best friend. n/t

[rurallib]

20. we sped by 40 in May

[Earth_First]

21. 1 year wed this August!

Of course two weeks later (in August...) we are celebrating our ten year anniversary as a couple...

[winter is coming]

22. 15 years, some of them tough for other reasons, but our marriage has always been happy.

Marry for kindness, folks. You won't regret it.