Married 40 years

[lightman]

Well, I came back from deer camp for our 40th anniversary and took Mrs Lightman out to eat. We had a great steak at a nice steakhouse. Now we are watching Mississippi State whoop up on Arkansas. I'll probably head back to camp in a day or two. Retired life ain't bad!

[1911sw45]

Congrats on y'all's 40th. Wish yall many more to come.

[jcwit]

Good Wishes on your 40th.

[Iron Whittler]

Congratulations! Been hitched for 47 yrs., and I'm retired also. I haven't figured out how I worked a full time job and got anything else done. Best wishes to you and your Mrs. and may you have many more years together.[smilie=w:

[richhodg66]

Congratulations! Getting to be a rarity nowadays.

Wife and I have been hitched 27 years now, not planning on going anywhere anytime soon.

[Hogtamer]

Lightman, I beat you by 6 months! Congratulations! You must have, like me, married an angel. For whatever reason just had the best talk I've had with my wife tonight in a long time. She's still the sweet, foxy (before there was hot) girl I married so long ago. The difference is that she knows me better than I know myself.

[HP9MM]

Hey, I've been married for 40 years to. Shot my 9MM and my .44 magnum with cast bullets this afternoon and being an MSU dog all I can say is "ain't it great" both the marriage and the football game!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Bzcraig]

A great milestone and congrats!

[WILCO]

Congrats on y'all's 40th. Wish yall many more to come.

Ditto for me!

[facetious]

Coming up on 28 years.

When I told some one that thy looked at me and said "bleep!" thy don't even send you to jail for that long.

[dg31872]

43 years and going strong. I got a good one!

[Hickory]

Congratulations, I'm within 6 months of 40 year mark myself.

[JeffinNZ]

I am fairly sure Mrs Jeff will shoot me before we hit 40 years. Only to wound of course. Just to remind me who the boss is. [smilie=s:

[NavyVet1959]

"Marriage is finding someone you want to annoy for the rest of your life."

[Hickory]

"Marriage is finding someone you want to annoy for the rest of your life."
I have a different definition of marriage.
"Marriage is the collision of opposites, that results in a fine and pleasant misery."

[Lloyd Smale]

congrats to all of you long time married people. My first one didn't go well and soured me for 15 years on doing it again. I met a good one though and will be with her till I die but theres just not enough time left to make 40 years unless I live to be a very old man and I lived a bit to tough of a life to expect that:bigsmyl2:

[lightman]

Thanks for the kind words everyone. Yeah, I got lucky and got a good one. We got married at 18, so the odds against making 40 were pretty high! My profession as a lineman had to make it a challenge sometimes, what with the long hours and around the clock call-outs. She's never complained about all of the missed dinner dates, birthdays or holidays that I missed due to a call or a storm. You'all have a good weekend!

[jsizemore]

At least you didn't ask her to go on the call-outs.

[clintsfolly]

Got in 37yrs with the best thing that ever happened to me. And hope for 37 more. Way to go to the both of you!

[lightman]

jsizemore, actually she did go on a few, and kind of enjoyed getting out. After the kids left home, she would ride with me sometime at night or on the weekend, or if I was really tired. At night or in bad weather, she would sit in the truck and play on her phone, or on the computer. That was probably against the rules then, and really is now. Sometimes, it might be the only time we saw each other during my call-out week!

[bedbugbilly]

Belated congrats to you both on your 40th! My wife and I are headed towards 44 next August. Glad you had a good steak dinner out to celebrate! Coming home from deer camp is truly dedicated and committed! Something some of the young folks could learn a lesson from. Ain't nothin' sweeter than spending a lifetime with the one you promised to love forever!

[bushwack]

Congratulations on your 40th wedding anniversary! Today is my 30th wedding anniversary. When I had been married for 25 years I had some guy tell me that he didn't think anybody had been married for that long anymore, its nice to prove him wrong.
bushwack

[Hickok]

Well, I came back from deer camp for our 40th anniversary and took Mrs Lightman out to eat. We had a great steak at a nice steakhouse. Now we are watching Mississippi State whoop up on Arkansas. I'll probably head back to camp in a day or two. Retired life ain't bad!"And we never have had a argument or a cross word in all those years!!!":kidding:

The Mrs. and I will hit the 40 mark on May 1.

I have my wife "just the way she likes me!" after all those years!:lol:

Congradulations, really good women are hard to find!

[Wayne Smith]

We made it to 40 back in June. Wonderful woman and we are still faithful.

[bangerjim]

Congrats!

Join the club! I've been in a same-sex marriage for 43 years.............the same sex with the same woman over and over and over and over................like the good Lord intended! :bigsmyl2:

banger

[captain-03]

Will make it to 45 come Jan 2nd!! Can not believe she has put up with me for that long ....

BTW --- just wait until next week -- State and Ol'Miss!!!!!!!!!!!!

[shooterg]

Congrats on a good round number ! I got 9 to go, then I want at least 10 more to get to 50 and see the grandboy grow !

[daniel lawecki]

Congrats I've made it 34 years its easy when you marry the right women.

[eveready]

On this coming Thanksgiving my bride and I will celebrate our 57th. It has been a very good ride.

[Mtnfolk75]

Congratulations on the 40th, SWMBO & I passed the 40 year mark on the 1st. We spent 3 days at Pismo Beach, had a Grand time also. Being married to your Best Friend for 40 years, being Retired and living your dreams in a Cabin in the Mountains, ain't nuthin' better. God is good and life is great ... [smilie=s:

[lightman]

Thanks for the kind words guys. It looks like a lot of us out punted or coverage!

[DoubleAdobe]

Congrats are in order, you and the Mrs. are doing something right.

[Freightman]

Way to go! both of you. Been 56 for my wife and I.

[Blackwater]

Well happy anniversary, and many happy returns. A buddy just celebrated his 50th, and had to leave deer camp for it, too. He's a very lucky guy, and got a truly wonderful woman. I gave her my deepest sympathy, and she just laughed. Good folks. Yours must be mighty good too for yours to last 40 years in this day and time. Good on ya' both! My next will be my 47th. It sure doesn't seem like it could have been that long!

[shoot-n-lead]

CONGRATS on the milestone!

[buckwheatpaul]

lightman, you and your bride are one year ahead of me....I can assure you that we are happy for you and yours....I would marry my bride again! Congrats from your East Texas Booliter! buckwheatpaul and mrs. buckwheatpaul

[Iowa Fox]

Congrats to everyone here. We are sneaking up on number 47, I sure hope we have a long way to go yet.

[Doggonekid]

In todays world husbands and wives are disposable. It is good to see so many people enjoying their wives for so many years. Congrats Lightman. I just gave my wife a Rugar Bear Cat for our 35th. She is now a gun owner.

[NavyVet1959]

In todays world husbands and wives are disposable. It is good to see so many people enjoying their wives for so many years. Congrats Lightman. I just gave my wife a Rugar Bear Cat for our 35th. She is now a gun owner.

Well, we didn't exactly say that we "enjoyed" them... :) More like "put up with"... Better the evil that you know than the evil that you don't know... Or something like that, I guess...

[dolfinwriter]

Congrats on your 40th. We just hit 19 years on November 30th.

[bear67]

Congrats! Forty is a mile mark in today's society. It takes two, but it has been an amazing 48 year ride for Mama Bear and I. God has blessed us and I thank him for her and the family she birthed for me and the suffering of putting up with me all these years.

I tell everyone that when she leaves me, I am going with her.