What's Love Got To Do With It? - the other perspective

[alice_loves_cats]

Well, 

how about our NEWEST relationships/weddings?

I have this brand-new wonderful and just... well, PERFECT boyfriend, 
since Monday, 29th September. 

Anyone with something fresher? :-)

Oh, it's gonna last forever, of course.

I hope. 

:-)

Love, Alice, aged 20, so not yet qualified to compete on the long-
term marriage thing




--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Tim Regan" 
<tim_regan82 at h...> wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter Cindy wrote: 
> > First, I started to wonder if I have the longest 
> > marriage of anyone on OTC 
> 
> There are lots of people on the list, so I bet we get some really 
> long marriages showing up. Anyway to chip in with mine, I married 
> Kate on the 21st of December 1990, so it's nearly 13 years ago for 
> us too. But we started walking out together some time before that, 
> 18th of March 1983, when I was just 17 and Kate was 18. When I see 
> 17 year olds now, I cannot believe that they would be capable of 
> making such a momentous decision as `choosing' the love of their 
> life. I guess that's me getting old and forgetting what it's like 
to 
> be young. As Dumbledore said:
> 
> "old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young "
> 
> > Second, I started to wonder if there is any common 
> > characteristic among those who are married for a 
> > long time.  I know my own views of what makes a 
> > good partner have changed dramatically since I was 
> > a blushing bride.  But I'm wondering what everyone 
> > else thinks about that -- what does love have to do 
> > with it?  And what else is involved?
> 
> I think love has loads to do with it; and shared interests, lust, 
> common visions, and commitment - you both need to believe in the 
> long term enough to persevere through bad patches. Not that I'm 
ever 
> the cause of bad patches you understand ;-)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Dumbledad.