Congrats on 23 years of marriage! A good marriage will stand the strains, a shaky one has a tough time. I can't imagine how hard it is. Well, I can ... but I don't think my imagination gets close to the real thing.

Congrats on 23 years, how wonderful!! And thank you for sharing this news blurp, doubt it will get any real media coverage, unless they only pull the negatives out! UGH!!!

Congratulations on your 23rd. My husband and I will celebrate 44 next March. He was a SSgt in the AF and the VN war was raging. He retired after 30 years a CMS and I know how difficult some of those years can be but real love just gets stronger and better with the years. Thank you both for your service and may God continue to bless you and our wonderful country.

Greyhawk and Mrs. Greyhawk - Congratulations on 23 years of marriage. That is absolutely wonderful. Sadly, I have had no good models of marriage in my life as everyone in my family is divorced or currently living in bad marriages (or both, having divorced and remarried and now their 2nd marriage is lousy as well). My parents divorced, every one of my aunts and uncles are divorced save one - and that marriage is going to end as soon as my cousin graduates from high school. I could go on, but you get the idea.

This is why I so enjoy reading about successful marriages and am so glad to see married couples so strong in their bond and companionship. From just reading your posts here on Mudville Gazette the last few years, I can understand why you two have a good marriage, what with being two strong, deep people with great heads on your shoulders and knowing what is really important in life. And you seem like people who work every day to improve yourselves and always looking to learn something new and tackle new challenges and make not only your lives better, but the lives of others around you better. I know I am a better person just for knowing you both through your writings here at Mudville Gazette on military and war matters. You both are an inspiration in many ways through your writing. I hope you know how much you are appreciated.

So thank you and congratulations and I wish you both much more happiness in your marriage in the years to come.

Dang! I was gonna comment, but MiMI said all the good stuff. Congrats anyway, and ditto on the thanks!

G,

I think a lot of military marriages are based on convenience. And as long as the military continues to discriminate against single servicemembers, this will continue.

Did the study segregate marriages with children from marriages without? That would be an interesting data point.

-- Uber Pig

Oh yeah, and happy anniversary to you and Mrs. G!

-- Uber Pig

G, that makes me feel old. Come to think about it, I guess I am. (23 year?) Mrs G must have been about 13 when you married.

Now mom, that would be illegal, I only looked 13 ;P.

Yep, it must have been the chewing gum ;)

I'll never live that down. Must burn that video.

Smog? In Iraq? Was there this much smog before we got there to ruin a perfectly decent country? This is another example of capitalist/democratic indifference to the suffering of the people. Jesus, what next? Dirty sewers? No polar bears? Fucking Americans.