Celebrate Your Anniversary! 19th & Beyond

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The thread revolves around personal experiences and anecdotes related to celebrating wedding anniversaries, with participants sharing their own milestones, plans, and reflections on relationships. The scope includes informal discussions about anniversaries, relationship dynamics, and humorous exchanges.

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  • One participant shares their plans for their 19th wedding anniversary, humorously mentioning gifts and dining choices.
  • Another participant reflects on their lack of a formal anniversary due to not being legally married, considering alternative ways to mark the occasion.
  • Several participants discuss their own anniversary experiences, including ideas for celebrations like revisiting significant locations or enjoying simple meals together.
  • There are humorous exchanges about divorce anniversaries and the nature of relationships, with some participants making light-hearted comments about past marriages.
  • Some participants express curiosity about the bonds that keep couples together over long periods, leading to a discussion about relationship dynamics.
  • A participant humorously suggests a dramatic way to celebrate a divorce anniversary, indicating the playful tone of the discussion.
  • There are references to age and relationship history, with some participants joking about the implications of age in relation to marriage and divorce.

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Participants share personal stories and ideas about anniversaries, but there is no consensus on how to celebrate or the nature of relationships. The discussion includes both light-hearted banter and more serious reflections, indicating a mix of agreement on the importance of anniversaries but disagreement on the specifics of relationships.

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Some statements reflect personal anecdotes that may involve assumptions about relationship norms and dynamics. The humor and sarcasm present in the exchanges may obscure deeper sentiments about marriage and commitment.

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Readers interested in personal stories about relationships, anniversary celebrations, and the dynamics of long-term partnerships may find this discussion engaging.

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Today is my 19th wedding anniversary. And just by coincidence, it is also my wife's. It's our first 19th anniversary, so I'm getting her paper. She says no problem as long as she can spend it. Then we head out to gurgitate some fancy chow. I told her that for our 100th anniversary I would get her a diamond and a microscope. She said that if I want to make it past 19 I'll get her a diamond and a wheelbarrow. How will you celebrate your anniversary?
 
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Happy Anniversary, Jimmy and Mrs. Snyder.
W and I don't have an anniversary, since we're not legally married. I've been thinking about asking our landlady what date I put my name on the lease and using that, but I have enough trouble trying to keep track of birthdays...
 
Happy Anniversary...

In a month I come up on 18 years, and this month is 21 years we been together.

How about taking her to the place you first went on a date...We will just go and have a decent dinner, movie and maybe a cup of coffee at Starbucks on the way home.
 
November will be the 25th anniversary of my first divorce.
 
Evo said:
November will be the 25th anniversary of my first divorce.

So your were... what... -30 when you got married? :confused:
That's taking embryonic stem cell research a little too far... :rolleyes:
 
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Danger said:
So your were... what... -30 when you got married? :confused:

don't use negatives around women----they never forget
 
Danger said:
So your were... what... -30 when you got married? :confused:
That's taking embryonic stem cell research a little too far... :rolleyes:
I was a child bride.
 
rewebster said:
don't use negatives around women----they never forget

No, you twit... that was a compliment. She's obviously not old enough to have been divorced fotr 25 years. :rolleyes:
 
Dr Transport said:
Happy Anniversary...

In a month I come up on 18 years, and this month is 21 years we been together.

How about taking her to the place you first went on a date...We will just go and have a decent dinner, movie and maybe a cup of coffee at Starbucks on the way home.
These are good ideas. Have a happy one.

We were friends for a long time before we got married, so I can't pinpoint when our going places together turned into going on dates. Besides, we met in Tokyo so it's difficult to go back to the old haunts. If I could, I would take her back to the botanical gardens there. We did have some great times.

We did go out for dinner though. I asked her to pick her favorite place to eat and she went for Vietnamese noodles, very cheap by 'anniversary' standards, but she always was a cheap date. When we got to the noodle house, she changed her mind and we ended up in a Thai restaurant which we both panned. Good, says she, we won't ever have to go back there. We didn't see a movie, but my daughter just started working at the local multiplex so we get a discount. We decided to take advantage in order to see Indiana Jones when it comes out in a couple of weeks. I don't drink coffee, but my wife does and we did indeed stop at Dunkin' Donuts, to get her favorite coffee. I can't wait til next year.
 
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Evo said:
November will be the 25th anniversary of my first divorce.
How will you celebrate? I suggest dinner at an intimate hot-dog stand. You can throw a cup of soda in his face for dramatic effect.
 
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jimmysnyder said:
Today is my 19th wedding anniversary. And just by coincidence, it is also my wife's. It's our first 19th anniversary, so I'm getting her paper. She says no problem as long as she can spend it. Then we head out to gurgitate some fancy chow. I told her that for our 100th anniversary I would get her a diamond and a microscope. She said that if I want to make it past 19 I'll get her a diamond and a wheelbarrow. How will you celebrate your anniversary?
Congrats js.

Um - the 75th is the diamond anniversary. For the 100th, you'll have to get something more exotic, like Dark Matter.
 
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Astronuc said:
Congrats js.

Um - the 75th is the diamond anniversary. For the 100th, you'll have to get something more exotic, like Dark Matter.
We are dark matter. Given your profession though, perhaps you are not. Thanks for the suggestion, I'll see what I can get away with.
 
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Well done jimmysnyder, i do not know how you guys do it, i can only imagine there is some kind of special bond that keeps a man tied to a wo man for so long.
 
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jimmysnyder said:
...but she always was a cheap date...

So is mine, when the kids were little and needed a sitter, we'd go get Mexican, then stop at the bowling alley for a couple of frames and still be back before 9. Matter a fact, the last sitter we used would sit for free because we were home so early and she could go out after...
 
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wolram said:
there is some kind of special bond that keeps a man tied to a wo man for so long.

I'm starting to suspect that I know why you're alone. If you consider a relationship as being 'tied to a woman', there's something wrong. There are mutual ties, of course, but you make it sound as if she's an anvil around your neck.
 
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Danger said:
No, you twit... that was a compliment. She's obviously not old enough to have been divorced fotr 25 years. :rolleyes:

During chat Evo told us she was 5 when she gave birth to her now 23 yo daughter, that makes her 28. It just means she had no children with her first housband and she divorced first at 3 :smile:

Congrats js.

We will celebrate 24th in November, but we already have 25th celebrated. About 10 years ago we summed marriage times of three couples and we gave a combined 25th anniversary party :smile:



 
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Borek said:
During chat Evo told us she was 5 when she gave birth to her now 23 yo daughter, that makes her 28. It just means she had no children with her first housband and she divorced first at 3 :smile:

Have you looked at her photos? Any 28-year-old that I know would kill to look that good.
 

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