The Boston Globe reports:
The secret to successfully celebrating 200 years of marriage is pretty simple: You just break it up into more manageable chunks.reports:
For four Swampscott couples who will soon celebrate that milestone, 50 years is about the right size.
This weekend, they will gather once again to celebrate long, happy marriages that are linked by a shared history that they discovered only after they became friends: All four couples were married on the same summer day: Aug. 15, 1965.
Many American marriages collapse under so many burdens — finances and fidelity and fate — but through 50 years of marriage, these four couples were never derailed.Because some people didn't meet on Tinder.
“I think our lives have been parallel. We were all married when we were quite young. We all had our kids when we were quite young. All our kids went off to school,” said Judy Remis. “The path has always been the same.”
