Heres To Long Marriages

In her Simple Mind blog post today, Cis tells of reading about all the long marriages — 60, 70 years worth — that are described in Cindy’s book, “War Bonds, Love Stories from the Greatest Generation.” Cis writes:

I am not here to make judgment. After all I got a divorce once. And widow once. It lasted 17 years and it was a good marriage with its own bumps and joys. And there is some good reasons why to get out of  a marriage — abuse being a major one, for sure.  Some find that they have nothing in common anymore with the exception of their kids. Some have different paths to walk and the marriage isn’t a happy place any more. But some of us look at marriage as disposable. Thankfully mine is not.

We are in it for the duration. But we did go into it in our later years. He at 47 and never been married and me at 59.  So maybe we are more settled down than the ones in their 20’s with stars in their eyes, and great hopes, thinking it is going to be easy. Which it isn’t. It is a work of love, that some times you have to give 70% and some times you get 70%. But it is worth every minute of it. And we meet all of life together. Which makes life a lot easier to deal with, when you are stand side-by-side partners.” Full post here.

Question: What are the keys to a long marriage?