Tuesday
Feb142012
Lasting Love around the world
Tuesday, February 14, 2012 at 12:53PM Check out the Platinum Anniversary Couples. Great testaments to true love. Happy Valentines Day!!
George and Josephine of CA:
Tuesday, February 14, 2012 at 12:53PM
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Interesting but unfortunately, I remain skeptical whether people can sustain a marriage of this length in our generation. The truth is, it was just different for the elderly couples in these videos. Different time, different economy, different technology impacting work/home life, different "everything" for them. They didn't have the same pressures that today's couples have. Compounding this, we live in a society where divorce readily accepted. For older generations, you just didn't contemplate divorce so quickly. It was not socially acceptable and if a friend or family member came to you and said they were unhappy, one didn't immediately try to help them figure out a way to get divorced without getting taken to the cleaners. That wasn't the mindset. The mindset was, you married for life, through thick and thin. Nobody seems to think like that anymore. Everyone is expendable. It's disgusting actually. The moral decay in society.
I communicated with someone recently who's been divorced for some time now. This person went through a bitter divorce (and it was bitter largely because of "his" actions). I remember a time when he would refer to his ex in the most awful light, using the most ugly words. And this is the mother of his children. I remember thinking that there was something very wrong with this picture. This guy created life with someone else and yet, could speak so ill of her. He had absolutely no concern for her emotional or financial well being as he walked out the door. It was just unspeakable what he did not only to her but to his children. His ex didn't handle the disintegration of her family very well, understandably so, and wasn't very willing to make life easy for him either. The two of them engaged in a tit-for-tat, back and forth, tug-of-war that went affected everyone around them and lasted for a few years. Both were very immature and the last thing they did was put their children first. I've never personally known of two people going through a more bitter divorce or handling it so poorly. I couldn't imagine being romantically involved with someone in this situation. NO THANKS!!!! I'm sure many of us have heard nightmare stories like this. That seems to me to be more the reality than these elderly couples who lasted 50 or 70 years together. I wish those long lasting marriages were more the norm, but they're not. They're rare these days. If only more people REALLY meant it when they said for better or worse. What a lie.