Skip to comments.
Couple explains their 80-year marriage
The Examiner ^
| November 25, 2011
| Margaret Minnicks
Posted on 11/26/2011 8:42:27 PM PST by Altariel
Some people are married for only 72 days. Some people are married for only a few weeks. Some people are married for a few years. However, according to a news report, on Thanksgiving day a Los Angeles couple celebrated their 80th anniversary.
Harold Owings, 100, and his wife wife, 99, got married on Thanksgiving Day in 1931.
"We've had a wonderful life," says Edna Owings. "We've had a storybook life, really."
So what is the secret to their happy marriage?
Harold Owings says:
"I never remember having and argument with her and it last overnight. Never once, because I always believed that I had a right to my opinion, and she had a right to hers. And if we couldn't settle it that way we just let it go and eventually it settled itself."
(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...
TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: 80years; marriage
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-40, 41 next last
1
posted on
11/26/2011 8:42:29 PM PST
by
Altariel
To: Altariel
...they both went deaf early on...?????
2
posted on
11/26/2011 8:44:12 PM PST
by
Doogle
((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: Doogle
Mayhap it was love and respect.
3
posted on
11/26/2011 8:48:48 PM PST
by
doc1019
(Romney will never get my vote)
To: Doogle
No, they were and still are each other’s best friend. That’s the way true friends are with each other.
4
posted on
11/26/2011 8:49:24 PM PST
by
SatinDoll
(NO FOREIGN NATIONALS AS U.S.A. PRESIDENT)
To: Altariel
My grandparents were also married on Thanksgiving Day, but they didn’t make it 80 years—my grandfather passed away in the 64th year of their marriage. One secret to being able to celebrate an 80th anniversary is to get married young.
To: Altariel
I think basically comes down to pick well and treat nice.
6
posted on
11/26/2011 8:52:56 PM PST
by
Jonty30
(If a person won't learn under the best of times, than he must learn under the worst of times.)
To: Altariel
The first requirement for being married eighty years is to live to be at least 100.
7
posted on
11/26/2011 9:01:40 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("The very idea of a community organizer is to stir up a mob for some political purpose." Ann Coulter)
To: Jonty30
I agree somewhat. The “pick well” part of your comment leaves much to the imagination. How do you pick well? All couples think they are picking well, otherwise they wouldn’t get married. The “treat nice” part I can’t disagree with.
8
posted on
11/26/2011 9:04:15 PM PST
by
doc1019
(Romney will never get my vote)
To: All
“Harold Owings, 100, and his wife wife, 99, got married on Thanksgiving Day in 1931.”
Nice editing. Nice. Excellent, in fact.
9
posted on
11/26/2011 9:07:08 PM PST
by
Celerity
To: Doogle
“...they both went deaf early on...?????”
ROFL!
10
posted on
11/26/2011 9:11:03 PM PST
by
CodeToad
(Islam needs to be banned in the US and treated as a criminal enterprise.)
To: Altariel
Hard to let it go when you’re both mucking with the thermistat.
11
posted on
11/26/2011 9:13:50 PM PST
by
Secret Agent Man
(I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
To: Altariel
Not every couple can afford separate houses for 80 years. ;)
12
posted on
11/26/2011 9:14:58 PM PST
by
Secret Agent Man
(I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
To: Altariel
I bet he wants to go over the wall.
13
posted on
11/26/2011 9:20:47 PM PST
by
trumandogz
(In Rick Perry's Nanny State, the state will drive your kids to the dentist at tax payer expense)
To: Altariel
Too many of us have hot tempers and hold grudges too long...........
To: Altariel
Too many couples expect each other to conform to their wishes.
To: doc1019
Most people use the wrong criteria when trying to pick mates. The only criteria they use is little more than how nice that person is to them.
They don’t have a clue as to how to pick somebody with good character.
16
posted on
11/26/2011 9:43:42 PM PST
by
Jonty30
(If a person won't learn under the best of times, than he must learn under the worst of times.)
To: Jonty30
Decide divorce and misery isn’t an option and work things out in humility.
To: CodeToad
18
posted on
11/26/2011 9:59:58 PM PST
by
Private_Sector_Does_It_Better
(If you like the employees at the DMV, post office, SS office... you'll love government health care)
To: Altariel
Edna sees God in their marriage: "I feel like God must have put us together because I think we just belong together.There's the reason...
19
posted on
11/26/2011 10:00:14 PM PST
by
Outlaw Woman
(Hello, Hello...Remember me... I'm everything you can't control...)
To: Celerity
Nice editing. Nice. Excellent, in fact. You've got me totally puzzled. What do you mean?
20
posted on
11/26/2011 10:24:16 PM PST
by
Mmmike
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-40, 41 next last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson