Onetime for me. Won't be a second, can't top the best. 31 years and counting, Best Friend, confidant, listener, Assistant coach, mother, you name it. It's hard being married to me so she has to be special.

My wife and I was married 51 years. She passed June 1st, 2015. Best friend, best partner and she took care of me like I was a king . She was my Queen. I would give one bit of advice for a good marriage. Listen to each other and be willing to give your spouse all the room they need to be happy. Always live and let live in a reasonable fashion. I will never get married again.

Something I learned: Don’t take advice from people who are eager to give it. People who think they’re the smartest, aren’t. If you want advice, look for the quiet people who are humbly successful at whatever you want to succeed at. This goes for marriage, trapping and about everything.

Same here. Forty-three years to the same woman.

Jim

Married and faithful 38 years here. The only person who I would take advice from that's been divorced is a person who went the distance in their second marriage. That means they figured out what they did wrong the first time.

Unfortunately most people just get divorced instead of fixing the first one, so they just take the same issues into the second, and often the third. Fix it the fist time and reap the rewards. Yeah, the fist five years were pretty rough. But we are stronger for it.

Only 32 years to the same Wifey for me...it's a struggle, but who wants to go out trolling now? Just kidding- we argue some still but Love eachother to the core.I should say 32+ Tax.half way to 33.

I have met a few divorced or repeatedly divorced people that had very good advice on where they went wrong and what not to do

Tweed, the first 5-10 years were great, just like the years before and after. We grew together and enjoyed doing it. The tough times were economic challenges not relationship issues. They only lasted a few years and we got through them by helping each other.

I don't mean to sound harsh here, but a Catholic priest giving marital advice, really?
A friend of mine who lives to fish met the girl of his dreams. She cared as much for him as he did for her. He warned her that he was a fishing fool and would never stop fishing even after he married her. She said that wasn't a problem and the last thing she wanted to do was stop him from doing something he loved like fishing.

After several pre-martial counseling with a priest, the priest convinced her that he was being selfish by allowing fishing to rule their marriage. The priest said until he changed his attitude, their marriage would never work. They broke off the engagement and to this day, he's still single and fishes several times a week.

Maybe the priest called it right, lol.

A lot of women will “not mind” something that later they “despise”, especially when it is an obsession. I love fishing, but I have to put that well below my marriage and kids. Sitting here typing with the youngest asleep on my shoulder. Wife and I will be celebrating fifteen years next month. Dated close to five years (through college). Will be twenty years together this fall. Not always easy. Life hasn’t always been easy, but I’m not about to quit the wonderful family that God gave me, no matter how tough it is sometimes.

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Ok guys, take it easy I too have some years on this relationship treadmill too. We dated exclusively for 4 years and then got married. So we have been together almost 35 years and married almost 31 years. Our motto is that we are saving two other really nice people from a lot of misery! After 50 years, I may have some good advice.

Ok guys. You want advice, ask away. Its pretty clear I have by far the most experience...

Been married for a solid five months now so I guess that qualifies me right???

25 for me and my bride.please and thank you goes a long way.

That makes you an expert in this site!

The first 25 we're the hardest...LOL!

I have no advice to give on marriage, every day is something new whether it is something petty and stupid or grand and life-altering but what I do know for sure (after 7 years of marriage) it is darn hard work most of the time and sometimes it hardly seems worth it but then there are times it seems worth all the hassles and then some.

Bahahaha
Thanks. I'm only on 9 years of marriage and 10 together.

Marriage and raising kids the hardest job and responsibility one can ever have.
You get home from work your day is just starting.

It was always good for me. Oh, we went through some rough times financially, which can be hard on a marriage, but we always found a way, together. My inlaws told me that I can't afford the house I built. But we did it.
As Vince Gill would say, Look at US!!!!