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It's times like this that I wish WB had a "LIKE" button. I'd press it like a zillion times. That's the cutest thing I've ever seen. And I've never seen The Notebook (OHHH I KNOW, THE HORROR!). LIKE.
Awh what a sweet story and photo! I love reading stories like this, mostly because I don't know any couples like that and love knowing that forever love is real. My own grandparents have been married 55 years as well, but they have grown to despise each other and it's blatantly obvious. Makes for very awkward family get-togethers.
They haven't been together to ages and ages but my dad and his girlfriend. They are partners in everything and supportive of each other and they still act like they are 17 having a summer fling (sometimes its gross but still cute). They respect each other and share their lives. They love to take adventures together and challenge each other to be better and do more. One of my favorite things is that they work opposite schedules ( one works days and the other nights) and they make each other lunch while the other gets ready to go to work. I just think its such a sweet small gesture of support that warms my heart.
I hope I have a marriage of support, respect, affection and still challenge each other to be better.
@7SEVENJ9: I haven't seen it either!
Thanks for posting this, it's super sweet to hear there are couples like this. Every once in awhile I'll see an elderly couple at the mall holding hands and it's just so adorable :). My grandparents still love each other, but they're not very affectionate.
Your grandparents are adorable - my heart gets all mushy when I read that!
I would like to have a love like DHs grandparents, Bennie and Edith (RIP).
Bennie and Edith met and he proposed to her the first day, she said no. He continued to propose and finally after 6 weeks they were engaged. They were married for over 50 years....
10 years before Edith passed away, she started to show signs of Alzheimers disease. The disease progressed and she got worse, but Bennie was by her side the entire time. In her final months, she did not recognize Bennie at all and he would cry (and was severely depressed) because he didnt have his girl. She passed away in March of 2009 and Bennie was a mess. His health worsened and he was even more depressed than before. HE was 94 at this point. He said he just did not want to live without his Edith. He passed away in May - 1 month before his 95th birthday party that we had planned for him.
They loved each other with all their hearts, no matter what, through everything. We will be naming our first son (if we have one) Benjamin after Bennie.
Awww I totally agree with you OP! My grandparents have been married for 57 years! They brought their wedding album over on my Papa's 80th birthday. *sigh* I'm posting the poor-quality picture I have because I want to.... :)
It's blurry, but it's a "picture of a picture." This in 1954 at a church in England. :)
Anddddd now:
*sigh*
I want a love like my grandparents. They met when they were 13, started dating when they were 14, and are now going on 60 years of marriage. He still calls her "darling" after all these years. They're just adorable and I hope our marriage is just as long-lasting and full of love as theirs!
@PitBulLover: ohhh, that story gave me the chills. I do believe that once a spouse passes away the other can literally die of a broken heart because they miss that person so much. Wow.
@JennBug89: Very cute!
My grandparents were actually just like the Notebook! My grandfather passed away from alzheimers in 2006 and him and my grandmother had been married for over 50 years. The last few months of his life his alzheimers got worse and worse and he didn't remember any of us, including my grandmother. The last few days of his life he was at home, on hospice, basically in a coma. His entire family-kids and grandkids basically stayed around his bed side 24/7 so we could be with him when he passed. One night, we all went to the family room to eat pizza and look at old family pictures. It was the first time in days my grandmother had been alone with him in the room. As we all talked about old times and laughed my grandfather opened his eyes (remember...he had been in a coma for several days at this point) and looked at my grandmother and said "I love you Jean", and then he passed.
My grandmother screamed and we all ran in the room. But I will never forget that. I believe he heard all of us talking and laughing and knew it was ok for him to go but he wanted to say goodbye to my grandmother. Makes me tear up even writing this.
@Bostongrl25: Oh my. Your story also gave me the chills. Wow. Incredible, incredible, incredible.
i love this thread! i have no one like that to look up to so hearing stories like these make me so so so happy :)
My maternal grandparents were married for over 60 years. They eloped - my mom only found this out when she helped them move into a retirement home and found their actual marriage cert, which had an earlier date on it than their "wedding." They'd written on the envelope it was in, "Ellen - surprise!" When they were both in their early 90s and had to live in a nursing home, they were put in a room with two single beds. They had the staff push the beds together so that they would never have to sleep apart. My grandmother's wedding ring will be my wedding ring, and I feel so lucky for all the history and love it symbolizes.
Aww, everyone's stories made me tear up ;) I feel very lucky to have 3 of my 4 grandparents still with me at age 21.
Oh my heart just melts! I seriously just put the Notebook in the DVD player! My mom's parents were married over seventy years when my grandma passed away. Grandpa is 93 (almost 94!) and still carries the same picture in his wallet of her from the 1930's of her on the beach in a bikini. He asks my dear hub every time we visit "Wanna see a picture of my girlfriend?" and pulls that picture out :)
The first time he did that to him it totally freaked him out though b/c he knew my gma was passed away and thought "damn, your gpa gets out and he's 90?!" haha!
My grandparents still call each other "babe" and it makes me smile! FI and I are both always going to be kids at heart, so I'm pretty sure we'll end up being that sassy old couple someday! ;-)
Oooh my gosh that story is precious!!!
On my grandparent's 50th wedding anniversary a few years ago, my grandpa looked over at my grandma and said, Well, Darlene. These last 50 years have been long- But they would've felt longer if I didn't have you." --And coming from my Grandpa, that is quite the statement! He's a simple guy when it comes to words. So cute :)
This is a wonderful thread! I hope we can all have enduring love/romance like you guys described here. And please, for the love of all that is holy, go watch "The Notebook" if you've never seen it!!!!!
Awww! I work with this lovely elderly couple, I asked the other day how long they've been married...64 years! Every morning when they wake up they take each other's hand and say "I love you", and just the way they look at each other...awww so cute!
Dh's grandparents! They are so freakin cute. They have been married for 68 years. They got married during WWII when he was in the Army. Both of them still dodder around the house and bicker with each other. They are the stereotypical "old married couple". We did an anniversary dance at our wedding, knowing that they were going to win it. They were too adorable dancing with his walker.
PS. Thats my parents behind them (my mom is in the blue lace bolero). Theyve been married for 35, almost 36 years. My dad was about to join the Army and he and his friend went out to eat at this steakhouse the night before he was going to sign the papers. Well, my dad never enlisted. When I asked him why he didnt, all he said was, "Well, I met this waitress."
...Johnny and June.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6-4irHfExI
I want a love like FI and I have right now. I hope we never lose how much we love and genuniely enjoy each other.
I saw this old couple at work today. The man was buying something at my register when his wife came up. They finished the purchase then he said, "My love, where to now?" It was so sweet.
My Papa and Nana were married almost 50 years when she passed away. He used to ride his bike everyday to see her and joined the church just so she would marry him. They were so cute.
These are all such cute couples.
I want to be like my aunt and uncle in alaska. They lost their farm in the farm crisis in the early 80's. They walked away and set up lives in Alaska. They lived with 6 kids in a 2 bedroom trailer, while he went crab fishing and she stayed home with the kids. She left behind everything and everyone to start a new life, they worked hard side by side. Now he owns a ton of companies and treats her like a queen, because he understands the life he put her through to get to where they are today. They still laugh together, smack each others butts, and are as in love as the day they got married. I could go on and on about how great they are. I tell my FH all the time that he is just like my uncle and he knows that is the greatest compliment in the world.
this makes me smile my grandparents would have been married 60 years in April, My pop pop passed away last year due to heat failure and my nana hasnt been the same since, she keeps saying 60 years with one man her best friend she says she is lonley and she misses him so much, I try to keep her busy but I think she wants to be with him its sad, I dont want to lose my nana. Sorry didnt mean to bring the board down.
But I want a love that long lasting like them. They kissed each other everymorning and eveynight
My maternal grandparents--they were married almost 60 years when my grandpa died. They eloped right before my grandpa left to serve in WWII. Soon after he left, my grandma discovered she was pregnant. Then, my grandfather's plane (he was a navigator) was shot down over Austria, and he was taken prisoner by the Nazis and spent the rest of the war in a POW camp in Poland. My grandma gave birth to my uncle while he was there and the only contact they had was infrequent letters. We still have those letters and they are the most beautiful love letters I've ever read. When he finally came home, his son was almost two years old. Somehow, they made it through that, had two more children, and led a beautiful life together. They were completely in love for the rest of their lives. I miss them, but they still inspire me.
oh wow. my heart is so full at these pictures and stories. thanks ladies. My family has alot of dysfunctional relationships so my hollywood symbol of a good marriage is Ozzie Davis and Ruby Dee.
My parents! Theyve been married for 30 years. They still flirt with eachother almost on a regular basis. They are each others rocks and my inspiration
AWW! I seriously just cried reading this. My family is also full of dysfunction so I just want stability and love. And i totally want to go watch The Notebook now.
Love these stories!!!
My grandparents met in June 1957. In October, they eloped shortly after he proposed to her with a ring he'd won while gambling--he couldn't afford to buy a ring outright, but he didn't want Grandma's parents or three brothers-in-law to think less of him. Grandma and Grandpa were married for 42 years. She died after a long illness. Even though Grandpa's remarried now, he firmly believes that when he dies, he'll get to hang out forever in heaven with Grandma. They bickered constantly and there were a few huge blowups, but those two were meant for each other. I have the ring Grandpa won for Grandma--it's my engagement ring.
I don't have my own story unfortuntely, both my grandfathers died quite young. In fact one died around 45 years ago, and my Nana still wears her wedding rings.
I love this story though:
http://storycorps.org/animation/danny-and-annie/
You may have heard it before, it's pretty well known. I don't know what it is about it, I'm not a big crier but it gets me evey time. Big time. Simple, pure, real love. So beautiful and so sad.
I actually just posted about this the other day - isn't it wonderful when we can look to our own families for examples of love?
My DH's grandparents met overseas. He was from Holland and she is 100% Austrian. They met at like 17 and fell in love and got married. He tells us now that he had multiple girlfriends while they were dating, just to get Oma all riled up and she'll say something like "You think you were so good looking! Then we came to America and I saw the American men! I wish I would have waited!" They've been married for like 60-70 years now. They argue about everything and have really thick austrian/german accents still. I think he teases her to start arguments and she takes it seriously and they bicker for HOURS. It's adorable. They will be lost without one another.
@Jaynee: I know, right! It's just so real! I've watched it so many times and have cried every time.
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I always hear people talking about the movie The Notebook, saying things like "I want a love like Noah and Allie." Well last night, I was visiting my grandparents and I thought (as I have many times before), if FI and I grow old together to be like this, I will be so happy. In May, they will have been married for 55 years. I swear, they still act like 2 silly teenagers in love most of the time. It makes my heart smile whenever I hear them talking. For example, yesterday they went to the doctor and my nanny later told me that the receptionist told her "You look at him (my grandaddy) like you're head over heels in love." Or my grandaddy told her last night "Well looks like I can love on you now without fear of giving you a bug" (because apparently he thought he was sick earlier in the week). I love them so much and just thought I'd share because they make me smile. Does anyone else have any stories about couples who still act so sweet and freakin adorable even after many years?