50th Wedding Anniversary GAW-ENDED

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I'm in and Congrats!!!! 50 years, That's awesome.
I have been married for 22 years. She's my best friend..I guess the secret is to treat each other with mutual respect and kindness.
 
Mr. MIKE-My youngest is having minor surgery this morning and my wife and I are both here. On the drive I asked her what has been the key to our marriage lasting 10 years. We realize that we are very different people, but our relationship works. We r too busy for romantic rendezvous, and we both work full time. What she came back with was it works because we choose to make it work. In today's day and time, people seem to do what they want for themselves first, and we see higher divorce rates. My wife and I choose to make it work as opposed to the alternative. Anyway it works for us ;-).
 
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Congrats on a huge milestone! A lot of work goes into making a long term marriage work. Thanx for the chance on the GAW.--KV
 
I'm in, and congratulations on 50 years of matrimony!

My wife and I will celebrate our 25th anniversary two weeks from today. Secrets to happy marriage? Well, for us, a major component is sharing a mutual faith in God and participating together in the life of the Church. In spite of that, we've had our ups and downs. When the "downs" happen, we've found that the way out of them is to listen to each other carefully! REALLY listen and try to understand each others' points of view on the matter at hand. This goes a long way toward ironing out misunderstandings, soothing hurt feelings, and opening the way to forgiveness.

Again, congrats to you, EyeDog, and thank you for the incredibly generous giveaway of a beautiful knife.
 
Congrats on 50 years! That's quite something. I've been married 26. And we still look at each other and wonder how we managed that, but we have some great memories. She's always said "don't go to bed mad" and it took me a while to understand why, but she's right.
 
Congrats Mike. Count me in for the GAW. I've been divorced twice so obviously I don't have a clue on how to make marriage work for a long period of time.
 
Wow, I am in for the consolation prize! Congrats on 50yrs. Its been 5yrs for me so far and 50 just seems amazing! It is also interesting to see the amount of 10+yrs marriages on this thread.
Thanks,
Bruce
 
I'm in.

Judy and Mike congratulations on the 50th.
My wife and I are headed to 33 years. And we will continue on to 50 too...Best Friends First!!!
 
I'm in. A wonderful giveaway celebrating a major milestone. I am almost to 32 years. Always treat your significant other with respect and manners count for a lot.
 
Wow! Great giveaway!
I have between married for (almost) 10 years now and it's been great. I can't imagine what 50 must be like, that's really awesome.

I don't have a ton of experience to be giving advice, but one thing I've found is to do for your spouse without any expectation of ever getting anything in return. If she loves you, there is no need to keep track of anything anyone has done :)
 
Mike, I've already been blessed by your generosity, so not an entry here. Speaking of being blessed, you truly have been. Happy 50th to you and the Mrs. Enjoy your travels.
I'm on 38 years myself and also feel blessed. My wife takes very good care of me. :D :thumbup:
 
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Congrats to Mike and Judy. Wow. Fifty years is a long time. :thumbup: :thumbup: Happy 50th Anniversary!
Canoeing with a couple bottles of nice wine and panera bread on the weekend makes for a great date. I am in, thanks for your generous gesture.
 
Not an entry, but thanks for your VERY generous GAW, Mike! :thumbup::thumbup:

Happy 50th Anniversary to Mike and Judy!! :thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:
Current photo and wedding photo indicate that you're both "hot", a really attractive couple! :D:D
My wife and I celebrated our 30th anniversary June 1, but I don't know if I have any wise advice; I mostly feel lucky and blessed that we've made it this far. I think a bad memory is very helpful. ;)
In the Bible, Colossians 3:12-14 has some words to live by:
"Clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity."

Good advice for a married couple, but also in any human interactions. Actually, I think people around here generally do a pretty good job of following these suggestions! :thumbup::cool::)

Good luck to all the entrants! :D:D

- GT
 
Happy 50th Anniversary, Mike and Judy! What a fantastic couple. Here's wishing you many more years of bitter-sweet togetherness. As someone said above, for a marriage to work, it requires efforts and understanding from both ends - two people with diverse set of interests and different upbringing to spend so many years together.
 
I'm in! I'm not married but basically am common law, been living together 4 years now. The secret, you hit the nail on the head, listening, understanding, and empathy.
 
Congratulations on the half century!! I hope my wife let's me live that long!
 
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