Wednesday, June 01, 2005

And the secret to a long marriage?

Hello ma famille,

Just watched a lovely story on our local TV news about a couple who have been married for 80 years today . Percy & Florence Arrowsmith (aged 105 and 100 respectively) have been recognised as having the world's longest marriage ever recorded. They were married on June 1, 1925.

And the secret to a long marriage? Never letting arguments fester. Or, as Percy put it more succinctly, the regular use of two words: "Yes, dear".

"We don't argue much these days, only when I want to watch the soaps (soap operas) on television, which he hates."

Nice.

G xxxx

1 comment:

Pete Merrow-Smith said...

Seems like the secret to a long marriage is to stay alive a long time. Question is, what's the secret to a happy marriage? (Actually, I know this already but I'm just testing to see if you will say the same thing).

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