Married at 20, in April we will celebrate 44 years. I'm blessed, she found me, and has stuck by me, way more than I deserve.
On #3 going on 15 yrs- #1 was a good gal- I was a couple years older- we meet in high school and dated after she asked me to take her to her prom- got married after she was out of high school and going to college at Weatherford. I burned I-40 up running out to see her when I had a day off the and we decided to marry even though she had a scholarship there. She got a job and kept going to school. She worked for the phone company, so they centralized in OKC and she started going to OCU. She wouldn't get home till 10 most nights. She finally graduated after about 8 years of that and I'm supposed to just forget anything I was into and pay all my attention to her now. I guess I was bitter about that cause I bailed. Oil bust/saving in loan failures like crazy made it tough in the mid 80's. Humpty bellied up and real estate was dead. Got work with a drug company remodeling mom/pop drug stores all around the country. I would leave Sunday and get home Friday. Had to wash clothes and be ready to head out Sunday again. Got home one Friday and went down to the Elks and there was a new gal waiting tables. We hit it off and as long as I was gone for a week, we did fine. If I worked where I went home every night, it took some adjustment. I got transferred to other places 3 times and she got transferred once with her job, which I was able to get moved with mine and we wound up in the DFW area. I hated living in that mess and we had a lot of trouble with her teenage daughter moving around. Then she got downsized and we moved back to El Reno and lived in my mom's house with my brother on some family land, while we built a new home on the other part of the property. Then my job with the drug co came to an end after 20 years. Cashed in company stock and paid the house off. Renewed my real estate license and was going places like the Elks and Masons again and getting to know people. She didn't understand that I had to get my name back out there to get business. I couldn't get her to see I was doing the same thing I did for the drug company, only I was at home and not on the road and somewhere else like I was with them. She just couldn't see how I was going to make the same money I did with the drug co and just filled for D one day. 18 years wasted as far as I'm concerned and then had to give her the house I paid for on my family's land. stayed single about 5 years and just when I'm pretty good with that, here comes a gal I knew from the early 80's who did the loans for us when I was doing real estate in the early 80's. I always thought she was hot and all here kids were grown and gone. We been at it for 15 years now. As long as I let her little 5' Banty rooster butt think she's the boss, things are good. I have to tell here sometimes that I'm not one of her kids, which she replies, don't act like one then.
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Got married at 21, lasted less than 2 years. Single for a couple years, then met wife #2 while up here working in western OK. She seemed pretty cool, so made the move from Louisiana and moved in with her in Sayre. That was 20 years ago, we've been married for 16 years of that, think she might keep me yet.
Married 3 times. Only have kids with the last one. Sometimes it gets lonely, but I'm better off without her. Kids are getting older now and starting to understand why things didn't work. If I find someone great, if I don't, also great.
Married 45 years, one wife. It's been close more than once but we've made it
I knew I was going to marry my future wife on our very first date. Been married now since 1991.
Married in '74, still married
Me too! I said it was love at first sight. She said I was full of sh!t.
Met my wife right after I graduated high school. We were both working at Little Caesar's. I was working the cook line, she was working the cash register. So, I got to stare at her b8tt all the time. I was hooked. We officially got together on her 17th birthday when I had a birthday party for her at my apartment (I was 19). We've been together ever since. Married for 23 years, been together for 32 years. We both know that no one else could possibly put up with either of us, so we are in it for the long haul. 
Us good ones are hard to please.
