What's your number?

15 year wedding anniversary today. I’m guessing with the number of grouchy old guys on this site there are some pretty impressive numbers?

25 in May… and I am not grouchy or old. I’m crabby and middle aged.

38 years for us last October. I definitely qualify as old and grouchy, I have no idea how she still puts up with me.

24 in February. Grouchy???????????? Depends who you ask.

2nd marriage and 27 years into it……………and i’m still the apple in my brides eyes!!!!!!!!! NO she’s not blind!!!!!!!!

39 years and going strong. Hoping for many more.

44 in March .Wow that’s along time. But it does seem like yesterday. Of course when your fw is your fishing partner it’s been great.

50 exciting years last October, to the same Gal! Keep up the Good Work!

#1-Agree to Disagree with compassion
#2-treat each other as equals with respect
#3-Undrstand we both have imperfections
#4-Hold hands

It took me 30 years to figure that out.

Just proposed to my now fiancée last Saturday…I may have to rethink this if you’re saying I’m gonna get grumpy…

My wife has tolerated my life style for 31 years and she’s given me two incredible daughters. The price…..A hell of a lot of gray hair, lots of stress, and an intolerance for stupidity. I get to wake up every morning just anxious to find out how she is going to make my life more interesting

If the good Lord is gracious to us, its gonna be a long ride. My grandfather passed just after their 73rd. My mentor, Walter Rosenlof and his wife Dorothy were married just under 80 years before he passed. My parents are nearing 60 years. Good examples for me. Hopefully, I’ve passed enough on to my girls. Tried to teach them to work hard, play hard, and tolerate no crap from anyone.

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42 and counting

Coming up on 30 this June… married WAY over my pay grade..

Can you believe she’s a Lesnar, related to Brock??

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24, second time around.

I am a happily married man also,I am married,and she is happy.
second time around,fifteen years in.
if I had done what I threatened to do,I would of gotten out three years ago……

just kidding guys,she likes to hunt and fish as much as I do and that can keep things fun,well,that is until she out fishes me.
on the days I finally out do her and we come home,she is sure to point to her thirty inch walleye on the wall,sigh.

34 years and counting with my favorite fishing partner.

Those are some impressive numbers! Sure makes my four years with my wife look amateur. I couldn’t have asked for a better partner to share my life with.

Any advice for a young man on how to keep his wife happy for all those years?

Hudson8907 wrote:

Those are some impressive numbers! Sure makes my four years with my wife look amateur. I couldn’t have asked for a better partner to share my life with.

Any advice for a young man on how to keep his wife happy for all those years?

cant tell you how to keep them happy for a lot of years,but,I can tell you the fastest way to end an argument is to say:
honey,I think you are right.

Be 42 in February. Seems like yesterday in some ways.

40 years on October 28th and leaving for a Pheasant hunt on the 29th. She don’t know yet.

Hudson8907 wrote:

Those are some impressive numbers! Sure makes my four years with my wife look amateur. I couldn’t have asked for a better partner to share my life with.

Any advice for a young man on how to keep his wife happy for all those years?

Took me about 20 years to fully understand that I can not MAKE my wife happy. Happiness just happens when you always remember your a team, and your focused on the same goals. Fights come on the details on how we get there. When I asked the two men I respect most in life how they handled being so pissed off, yet so calm towards there wives, I got very similar answers.

“Fur to skin in the shed, and tools to put away in the garage. Let it go, go get a cup of coffee, then stick you face in hers and just tell her you love her”. If that doesn’t work, your in deep crap.
Kind of ironic…..im sorting lures in the garage tonight

First marriage. Seven fantastic years and counting.

48 years next May. One of us must be crazy, and I don’t think it’s me. Please don’t tell her I said that.

My number was 15…that’s when the clicker counter stopped counting. 20 years later still not re-married but not because I did not look and keep hoping. Past that now, life has different surprises. 2 daughters have now blessed me with 6 grandsons.

Looking back, the mistakes made become so much more obvious. Hindsight…20/20, eh?

Can’t go back now, life is still good and thankful for everything I have been blessed with. Que Sera Sera…

Hudson8907 wrote:

Any advice for a young man on how to keep his wife happy for all those years?

Compromise Hudson!

We made an agreement on cooking responsibilities. We would take turns cooking.
On my nights to cook I generally used the grill. Steak, chops, chicken wings as such.
On her nights to cook, we ate out.

Been working well for 37 years.

26 years plus 4 to test the “waters”! Hopefully 30 more.

Was a miserable 4 years! Then Happily divorced 19 years. Now married 3 wonderful years!

aleb wrote:

44 in March .Wow that’s along time. But it does seem like yesterday. Of course when your fw is your fishing partner it’s been great.

That’s awesome! And quite true!

I love hearing all these fun numbers! Billy and I have been married 10 years, and next month we’ll be celebrating 18 years together. Time really does fly.

27 years and counting.

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My wife is the best by the way…..

Cool post!

24, been together since we were fourteen, how the heck does that happen? Best friends and she’s taught me a lot. Plus she laughs at and puts up with a very unhealthy boat and cylinder index fetish she thinks I have. Or as a neighbor calls boat’s, floaters.

Only advice I’d ever give is watch older couple’s who’ve been together forever, most have either a great sense of humor or a great ability to ignore faults, or both. Learn to laugh at and accept everything about yourself and your spouse.