Originally Posted by
Tammy
We too are married since a young age (19 and 21) and it’s been 37 years. In the beginning we were joined at the hip. Then we had 25 years of kids in the house. Since the kids all moved out it’s a completely different dynamic. We are happily parallel as Gardner described. Some evenings we barely speak. Sometimes we have long talks. We go to bed at different times quite often. We go to social things alone about half the time. No need to do everything together. We have even vacationed separately a few times when it worked out better for our personal schedules and interests.