Nice! Just really nice!

My theory on a long marriage-been married 35 years in December-is that it's really so much easier to get along and build a life of love , children and memories than to have to start all over again! It's sheer laziness that's kept us together! Who has the time or the inclination to screw it all up for...what?! Same thing, different face. It's a wonderful thing to grow old together.

I disliked the movie intensely...and all I saw while watching Heath Ledger's Joker was Al Franken, who is now my senator. Aaargh.

And Obama has the abilities you mention?! HAR DE HAR.

Good God he's funny looking. What a pimp.

Good post...my husband and I will have our 35th anniversary this coming December.

There is something to be said about being by yourself...either sometimes or forever. My mother was widowed in her 50's and is just fine being alone-she is now 74...she loved my dad but doesn't want some other old guy hanging around vying for the remote! She has always been independent-drives herself all over (too fast) and manages as an adult should. My mother-in-law on the other hand, can't imagine that a person isn't totally dependent on someone else...(she's 85). Even before she got older she couldn't think of driving herself anywhere...or going to a restaurant alone...NOTHING. She thinks of two of her bachelor Norwegian brothers and just feels so bad that they never married...well, maybe they didn't want to..it is OK!! Although, there's something about a happy, cozy marriage and, in the words of a Dar Williams' song (I'll Miss you Til I Meet You):

"..But there are days I think of you
Saying, 'hey, that's beautiful,
Yeah, I see it too.'

It's just kind of nice to have someone to share life and memories with.

I think you made a very good point...and it also kind of hits on what someone else mentioned...easy to have a baby...somehow that iS NOT a commitment, but getting married...whoo...that takes LOTS of thought. So many people I hear of nowadays postpone a wedding long after having a kid or kids because they need to save up for "the wedding"...or what's also known as "the party". Period. It's all show, it's all juvenile....it's all pathetic. I think there used to be some Hollywood couples that were normal married people (Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward) but that's because they were 'grown-ups' and those are in very short supply in all of society now.