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What is the longest marriage that ended in divorce?
Oldest couple to divorce: Bertie and Jessie Wood hold the Guinness Book of World Records title for oldest couple to divorce. The couple ended their 36-year marriage when they were 98 years old, and just a few years away from their 100th birthdays. The reason for the split is not known.
What is the world’s shortest marriage?
Glynn Wolfe, also known as Scotty Wolfe (July 25, 1908 – June 10, 1997), was a Baptist minister who resided in Blythe, California. He was famous for holding the record for the largest number of monogamous marriages (29). His shortest marriage lasted 19 days, and his longest lasted eleven years.
Why did our grandparents’ marriages end in death?
Our grandparents’ unions ended in widowhood, marriages shortened by tuberculosis and heart attacks. Our parents’ generation stayed married because they were supposed to. My own parents’ marriage almost made it to 50 years, until my father’s death cut it short.
Did you have a long marriage as an 18 year old?
Yes we had, and still were. It’s impossible to explain the evolution of a long marriage to an 18-year-old. I vowed to never turn into the marriage of my parents. I remember the shock when my mother told me, “Daddy and I still make love.” She was in her seventies.
How would you describe your grandparents in one sentence?
To me, my grandparents were unbreakable. They’d been through every stage of life together. They fought loud and often when we had family events but at the end of the day, I believed in their love. Without the two of them many of our family vacations and parties wouldn’t have happened.
What did we evolve into after our parents died?
We evolved into soccer parents and chefs de cuisine, nursemaids cleaning up vomit, neurotic parents surviving an overnight hospitalization when our 3-year-old became dehydrated. All the while managing my mother’s care as she disappeared into Lewy body dementia. Watching a parent die adds no romance to a marriage.