Women married over 25 years and still married - only  please?
608046
Yes I would. The memories and the family we created together have been priceless and if by some awful chance we would divorce or be seperated due to death I don't think I could live alone again. I think I would be very picky tho and it would have to be with someone who respected my feelings and my time with my family. I know I don't have the only good one out there.
20214
If you are refering to being married for 20 years, and you are middle aged (ie you got married around 20 to 25 years of age), nope, that's not a long time.  In fact, that's a farily short amount of time.\n\nThe average long term marriage usualy ends after 30 to 40 years, rare if it ever makes it past 40.\n\nSo, if that's not what your asking, you need to be a bit more specific :)\n\n******Addition*********\nSunflower below brought up a good point, however the connotation states that they don't exactly beleive that it happens; however, the concept of time does change when we get older.  \n\nTime moves much more differently for 20 year olds than it does for 40 year olds, at least in regards to perception.  For most people of advanced age, time is of course a constant, however it can drag on without end.  Defining who we are based on acheivements or milestones, isn't eactly how one can properly percieve time.  \n\nWhat we do with our lives, and what we do with our time in regards to ourselves, dictactes how we can properly percieve time.\n\n**********End Addition************\n**********Information based on additions by asker******\n\nAs your question has nothing to do with marriage, and middle aged means betweeen 35 and 45, i would surmies that 20 years is indeed a long stretch of time for such a person.  However, if you really consider what your asking, 35 years - 20 is 15 years old; the perception of time between a 15 year old and a 35 year old is vast.\n\n45 - 20 is 25 years old; the same holds true that the perception of time for a 25 y ear old person is much different than that of a 45 year old person.\n\n25-15 is simply a 10 year difference.  Because of this, we can surmies that man acheives several distinctions and refinements throughout the ages of 15-20, 25-35, and 35-45 with regards to how time is percieved.\n\nI supose this also has to deal with how we wish to see time.  If we lead a stagnet life, where nothing changes, that time itself isn't seen much different than when the stagnation began to show itself.\n\nHowever, if what we have been doing has drastically changed from age 15-35, then i would surmise that our perception also changes; one, for example, is the perception of time moving fast in highschool, and dragging in college.\n\nThe same premise holds true when you consider the ages of 35-45; if one's life has become stable, and predictable, then the perception of time from 35-45 would only changed when that life became stable, and anything thus after would be constant.\n\nI would also assume, however, that from the ages of 46 to old age, that time is also percieved differently.\n\nIf the routine changes, it is not impossbile that our perception of such a time will change.\n\nDo i blieve that 20 years is a long time for a middle aged man; that depends, is the question in relation to 20 years of monotony, or 20 years of constant change; either way it can be long time if it is taxing on the person.  However, monotony is percieved as a long stretch of time; and challenge or excietment is percieved as a fast movement of time.\n\nSo this really is subjective to the experiences, ect, of the person who is asking the question.
1064777
No..  I just wonder how long their marriage would last..  Now days, they last less than 10 years..  Very few are still married more than 10 years...  HMMM  What's wrong with this picture..  Do they understand what their VOWS means????  When they say the VOWS, I guess they took some of the words out or change the wording...  It would not be "Until death do us part"..  It would be "Until we find someone else do us part"...
243140
My hippie, liberal,peace loving, tree hugging, new age, pagan, mystic, self  has been happily married for 26 years to a conservative, Christian, Hawk, Policeman, rationalist etc.\nWe do well together, makes for some interesting conversations.\n\nMy first spouse shared my politics and religion but the marriage was hell. Nope  mixed marriages in that sense are not inheirantly more prone to failure.
866501
I've been married 28 years ,and it's still in doubt .It seems the spirit and the flesh are somewhat incompatible .You can do what you want, it seems to quench the spirit tho for a time .
635886
yes, married mine 20 years ago
50206
My husband and I have been married for 29 and one half years.  Some years were great some not so great.  But we hung in there and are more in love today than when we married.  Best wishes.
433470
Married 38 years and never have.  Trust is part of marriage.
207308
My wife of over 8 years.
907256
How about people like Bob & Doris Hope, married for 50+ years....Paul Newman & Joann Woodward, still married after 50 some years...Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman...ask them what the secret of their marital success is. I don't think it's about celebrity as much as it is about love, respect and communication.
513377
My uncle has married a woman who is 4 years older than him\nthey have a 15 years old daugthet now and nothing seems wrong they are still in love
393724
I'm married to one!  :)  \n\nHe's 10 years older than me.  Many of my friends are married to men who are 10 or 20 years older.  I'd say that between 10 to 20 year age difference isn't as much when we are more mature.  So a woman 30 years old would seriously consider a 50 year old man.  Especially if he's financially secure (not wealthy but stable) and willing to have a family---ready made (e.g., she already has children) or kids together.
599764
I would have arranged to meet my current wife(my 3rd) when I met my first wife. Then she would have had my children. First wife lasted 6 years, current wife has been with me for 27 and still going strong. It took me three tries to find true caring and love.(Oh yes, #2 lasted for three months!)
520204
15 !!!  You're getting to be an old maid !!!  I was married when I was 14. We are still married and having fun 31 years later.
190005
Yes, very much so.  Not a complex situation here.  Have such types married and lived a long life together.  Yes.  But let's look at quality of life here.  You do best in your comfort zone.
577388
mostly lust today, thats why the divorce rate is so high, 40 years ago it was love and people stayed married 50 and 60 years.
294085
I've been married 26 years:  average 3-4