20years, where has it gone.

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Originally Posted by p38arover

Congratulations. 50 years for us next month.

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Oh boy. Wow.

'Course, mum and dad make 82 this October. He won't be celebrating it, 'cos he's been dead 22, but mum might make it...

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Originally Posted by V8Ian

FIFO.

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Did that. Didn’t have any effect

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Originally Posted by johntins

Cherish each and every moment you have together, Nick. Be in love, not simply married. Get out and have FUN.

Sometimes tomorrow doesn't come.

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Agree completely - it is twenty years last September since my wife died. We had looked forward to growing old together, now I am just growing old.

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Originally Posted by JDNSW

Agree completely - it is twenty years last September since my wife died. We had looked forward to growing old together, now I am just growing old.

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It’s been two years for me. Does it get any easier?

I think it does, but not much easier. Grandchildren have helped me keep going.

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Originally Posted by loanrangie

Just clocked up my 20th wedding anniversary today, surprisingly i still have all my hair although the grey is taking over.
Still not sure if i like her or not, better give it a few more years to be sure [thumbsupbig].

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Did you perform the duty as required on birthdays, anniversary, Christmas.[bigwhistle]

52 Yrs for me , does not seem like 52 yrs, it just appears to go faster as the yrs go by . :twobeers: .

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Originally Posted by johntins

It’s been two years for me. Does it get any easier?

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It was 12 years last Sunday since our son (Lee aka Bucko as per my avatar) died. It gets easier but one still thinks of them.

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Originally Posted by p38arover

It was 12 years last Sunday since our son (Lee aka Bucko as per my avatar) died. It gets easier but one still thinks of them.

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Thanks Ron. Yours is worse. You aren't supposed to bury your kids. People have to sometimes, Mum has buried two, but it's still wrong?

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Originally Posted by johntins

Thanks Ron. Yours is worse. You aren't supposed to bury your kids. People have to sometimes, Mum has buried two, but it's still wrong?

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It is easy to forget that until around 100 years ago or less, about half of all Australian children died before they started school. And even in the last fifty years the death rate of young children has dropped by about 90%.

And even if you look at adult children, over the last hundred years there has been a big reduction in all death rates - not just for the elderly. Until the introduction of antibiotics and vaccinations, if you got old enough to have adult children there was no guarantee that you would die before them. This is why it was important to have half a dozen children, in the hope that at least one would still be alive to bury you (not to mention, support you in your old age!).

Not burying your children is a very modern concept. Of course, any death is something to regret, but it has always been part of life. Just as an example - I had a half sister (died a few months ago), not because my father divorced, but because his first wife died - while her parents were both alive.