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45+
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Married, less than 5 years
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Poll: How long have you been married (current marriage)?
12-23-2014, 07:53 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: NC
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Poll: How long have you been married (current marriage)?
Current marriage only please - not sum of multiple marriages, not adding years living together before marriage, not former marriages. Current marriage.
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12-23-2014, 07:57 AM
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Northern Illinois
Posts: 16,600
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Nearing 33 years.
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12-23-2014, 08:00 AM
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Administrator
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Chicagoland
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38 for us.  Even my parents didn't put up with me for that much time.
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12-23-2014, 08:02 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: New Orleans
Posts: 47,500
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Thanks for including "single" as one of your poll options.
If I had not divorced my ex in 1998, we would have been married 40 years last October. But that's OK; I'm ever so happily divorced and enjoying life. 
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Happily retired since 2009, at age 61. Best years of my life by far!
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12-23-2014, 08:15 AM
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Moderator
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: San Diego
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I miss the 15+ mark by just over a week.
I didn't get married till I was 38. Had the first kid at 39, and the second at 41. Needless to say - this is later than most folks. But I waited for the *right* guy...
Jan 1st I'll be married 15 years.
I know that's a short amount compared to most folks here....
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12-23-2014, 08:35 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jul 2002
Posts: 1,587
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20 years, married at 44, retired at 50, still have a 16 and a 18 year old at home (priceless), hence my username/handle.
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12-23-2014, 08:40 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: Cincinnati, OH
Posts: 4,373
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21 years for me
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12-23-2014, 08:51 AM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Southern Maine
Posts: 672
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Never married... but I have been with my SO for over 13 years.
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12-23-2014, 08:57 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Collin County, TX
Posts: 9,296
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37 years.
Guess I can't try to convince people I'm 39 years old. 
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12-23-2014, 08:59 AM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: Western Maryland
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Sometimes people ask about the secret to our long marriage. DW and I say that there are 2 factors: 1) You have to marry young, and 2) you have to be too stubborn to leave. She's just kidding about #2, I think.
35 years this past August.
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12-23-2014, 09:01 AM
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Gone but not forgotten
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Peru
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12-23-2014, 09:02 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: Williston, FL
Posts: 3,925
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Never married, no kids. Same GF for 24+ years.
Marriage is a thing created by governments. It is tax oppressive and obsolete.
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12-23-2014, 09:05 AM
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 Quote:
Originally Posted by jjquantz
Sometimes people ask about the secret to our long marriage. DW and I say that there are 2 factors: 1) You have to marry young, and 2) you have to be too stubborn to leave. She's just kidding about #2, I think. 35 years this past August.
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When I was a bartender, one older couple said something like this. He was about 90. He said she was always welcome to leave, and if she wanted to come back, she would have to stand in line.
Without seeing the couple it may not sound as humorous, but it was definitely funny at the time.
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12-23-2014, 09:05 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by bbbamI
37 years.
Guess I can't try to convince people I'm 39 years old. |
Likewise, closing in on 37 years. And it is tough to explain because my DW is only 51 on Facebook.
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12-23-2014, 09:08 AM
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Location: Flyover country
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We always joke that our marriage was a good thing for society, because it "got two of 'em off the streets."
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12-23-2014, 09:15 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2014
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Married in 2002, so that's about 58 years by my count. (Kidding, of course, best thing that ever happened to me)
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12-23-2014, 09:16 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: San Diego
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Senator
Marriage is a thing created by governments. It is tax oppressive and obsolete.
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The tax penalty was a factor in the date of our wedding. My husband suggested 1/1 - and I popped back with - Yay- that works for taxes. He thought I was nuts till I explained that two working people with decent income can be pushed into a higher tax bracket if married.
There is no tax penalty if your combined income is less than around 72k.
There is a tax BENEFIT if one spouse is SAHM or has lower income and the other has higher income.
In other words... one flat statement does not apply to every married or single couple.
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12-23-2014, 09:19 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Location: Charleston, SC
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12-23-2014, 09:24 AM
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Location: Philadelphia
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jjquantz
2) you have to be too stubborn to leave. She's just kidding about #2, I think.
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My wife and I substitute "lazy" for stubborn. When we were still dating we made a for-fun list of why we'd wind up married. Near the top of the list was
"Too lazy to find someone better."
Still true 20 years later!
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12-23-2014, 09:25 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Senator
When I was a bartender, one older couple said something like this. He was about 90. He said she was always welcome to leave, and if she wanted to come back, she would have to stand in line.
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At 90 that is probably very true. IIRC, women outnumber men about two or three to one from the mid 80's on.
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