This month one of our favorite couples celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. It takes a large amount of patience and tolerance to live with the same person for 50 years! A good portion of the younger generation will never reach such a milestone because they have a different mindset. Couples from our era married for life, no matter what. Of course, there were financial difficulties, illnesses, arguments and disappointments but we accepted them and worked through each challenge; the words "for better or for worse" meant exactly that. Nowadays, too many couples bail out when the going gets rough, only to start over with a new partner and a new set of problems. It takes a multitude of love and respect to endure a long marriage and oh, yes, you both have to stay alive!
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