Today is my grandparents 60TH wedding anniversary! Isn't that just incredible?
They are both in their 80s. They were married pretty soon after my grandfather returned from WWII.
What I think is amazing is that although they fight and bicker all the time (they are really quite the 'old married couple') it's so clear that they still love each other very deeply. 2 children, 5 grandchildren, several wars, who knows how many presidents and senators and whatever else... and they are still together and going strong.
My grandfather is very ill, and we are praying that he lives to see their 61st anniversary, but for now we are honoring how beautiful it is to spend 60 years with the same person and still want countless more - if he passes, he will leave behind a wife who will miss him deeply. I don't think my grandmother would even know what to do without him.
ChiBaby
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That is truly beautiful...thanks for sharing your grandparents story...
CLMon7906
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aww!!!! yes, my great-grandparents were the epitomy of love. yet i hear stories from their younger days of bickering and fits...hard to imagine that from what i always saw, but i guess it reminds you that it's 'normal' to bicker some!
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May God bless them !!!!
SPITSBRIDE
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Awwww..that is a beautiful thing, God bless them!!!
frosty
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I think that is wonderful. My maternal grandparents were married for almost 62 years when my grandfather passed away.
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Tresure every day with them!!
My grandfather passed away when I was 17 and my grandmother when I was 24 (9 months before my wedding) and had they both lived they would have been married 60 years 22 days before DH and I got married. I wear my grandmother's wedding ring as my own and hope that DH and I share half of the amount of love that my grandparents had.
DH's grandparents were married 60 years a month before our wedding, they had their own dance at the reception and were the HIT of the party, I swear!!!
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Sara-that's really beautiful. You have great role models in your grandparents.