Congratulations on the 20 years. Keep going, and congrats to all the rest but so far Artful Dodger and I have all of you beat. 45 years this past July.
sara Dale

Well Sara, we would have had 2.5 more years,
if I had not kept saying
NOOOOOOOOOOO why ruin
a great relationship/friendship by gettin married ?
I was ascared.
I kept sayin NOooooooooooo to marrying him *or anyone*
for 2 and half darn yrs. till FINALLY
I...got tired of him buggin me to marry, and said ok.
I even turned into a quivering mess
night before our Aug. wedding,
and said noooooooooooooo
this is serious stuff,
I was panicing
AGAIN &
I about walked away in paranoia, and phear *again* !
I turned to my father for help and comfort,
but he BETRAYED me sayin to my fiance,
'she's your problem now ... [as he drug me over to hubby to be],
ya best figure out how to fix her panicstricken mood
or ya not getting her for a wife, tomorrow morning.'
I was soo mad at my dad that night, I felt like I was some fricken
torch he was passing on to hubby to be, instead of being *daddy's lil girl* !
Needless to say, hubby to be was that night & still is quite adept,
at pickin up the torch to keep me happy
or keepin me convinced stayin with him, all these yrs. still is a good thing !
We are both fiesty blockheaded strongwilled individuals
miracle it lasted this long, haha
and we joke, that we each keep failing to 'tame' the other one, of us.
WELL GETTIN MARIED IS A SERIOUS DECISION to make. *Shudder*
I was the scaredy cat, CHICKEN !!
Or we would've/could've been wed 42.5 yrs by now. lol
But yall still got us beat on yrs.