I think my divorce after 17 years of hell was my biggest blessing. After that came the biggest romance , I am so lucky for the last 40 years.

Once was enough to learn the lesson to never marry again. Living together is just fine. I can say get out whenever I feel like it with no legalities attatched.

After ending my 10 year Marriage from Hell, I had 29 years of being single. Now I’ve had 11 years of a very happy marriage. The years I was single allowed me to grow and achieve in ways I never could have if I had stayed married. Fortunately, my present husband doesn’t resent my achievements the way the first one did.

I divorced my husband after I found him cheating. He was very abusive also.So getting out of that marriage was GREAT! Now I have been married with my current Husband come this July for 20 years and it is wonderful. The first 10 years I was healthy and and unfortunate the other ten I have been very sick. But he just takes it in stride. He does every thing, and believes that I will be able to do all the things that we have planned in our retirement When we went to my G.I. at 7:45 a.m. yesterday the doctor said that mt Husband was the best champion that he has ever seen. I love him very much.

When we met at 18, we couldn’t stand each other. When I dated his roommate 3 years later, we became friends again. When I broke up with his roommate, he moved in with me, a month later (I swear, we NEVER cheated on the roommate). When we married at 22, everyone said we were too young, and it wouldn’t last. 19 years and 3 kids later, here we are, just as happy as we were then!

None, yet!

I was divorced once. I married young 22 and of course pregnant..with TWINS! I had never lived on my own. I was still in school, living with my parents etc… I had a quick SLAM into reality. My ex husband was a few years older than I and just not right for me at all! We did last 7 and 1/2 years but wow the divorce itself took 2 1/2 to complete! That was awful! Speed to present…. I met a wonderful man and we were married last year in Maui- May 25th(1 year here very soon!) “Mauid so to speak” we have a wonderful life and I entered into the relationship really knowing who I am and he as well. It just feels warm and HEALTHY not fast and dramatic like other relationships… We communicate and make sure to have a vast group of friends and interests and hobbies that keep us loving being together!

I am divorced after 35 years however, we still live together and say we are married. Why did I divorce him to begin with? I wanted to date and be able to say I was divorced. Plus I was seeing someone for six years and I wanted to be authentic. I have since broke up with the boyfriend, lost my job, and am back to square one looking for work. I now see very clear who really loves and cares for me, my husband who has put up with my many character defects, and I with his.

I have been married 32 1/2 years. Not always happy, but we have worked things out. I come from a long line of non-divorced people. My parents had been married 52 years when my mother passed away. My father’s parents had been married 70 years when my granddad passed away and my mother’s parents had been married 60 years when my grandpa passed away. On the other hand all my children have divorced, one twice. One is happily remarried, one is happily single and the one who has divorced twice thinks she has to find another man to marry to be complete. I don’t understand her—she keeps finding crazy people and thinking that she can “fix” them. I just worry about her children. Oh, well. I’m just a mom and what do I know?

Just had our 24th anniversary … !

Married young, divorced young, re-married young, still married, over thirty-five years.

I’ve been married for 33 years. My sisters have been married for similar lengths of time. My parents and my in-laws were married for 50 years each. No divorces on either side of our family until you get out to cousins. Don’t know what we’ve done right but we were able to choose the right soul mates early and find a way to make it work. None of those hell-like marriages in the bunch. All our kids love getting together even though the ages span from 35 to 10. We all live fairly near each other. We’ve done something right.

47 years to the same man! Wow — we both can’t believe it. It’s been an incredible ride!!!!!