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Neasa and Joelle,

I think more young people need to talk with grandparents that have had a marriage lasting decades to learn what truly makes it work.

As far as 50 years, wow, that is persistence, I must say.  “Love would have to be patient…” 😉

But I think a more reasonable time frame is better.  I know a couple who dated for 10 years before marriage.  My wife and I met in person but fell in love through personal letters and long phone conversations.  I had waited and prayed for her all my life before God brought our two worlds together.

I think a romance like Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet in Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” seems more interesting and was not a “love at first sight” thing. (ha, ha)

I do have a particular image that appears in one of my online Blog posts that has the symbology of what a marriage is supposed to be. I have a couple in the story that are advanced in years, but not elderly, who were married under this symbolic canopy that represented the ideas of a God sanction marriage.
I believe it appears in Chapter 60 – The Covering of my WIP.
Here’s the link (if interested): Chapter 60 – The Covering [just scroll through and you can’t miss it]

My wife and I have been married since 2000, so we have twenty-one years of proof.

My age thing seems to come up again…[sheesh]…
Well, let’s just say I am old enough to have seen the original Star Wars (A New Hope) in theaters when it came out as a young kid. 😉