Reaching wedding anniversary milestone takes real work
My wife Lynne and I are celebrating our 33 rd wedding anniversary today --- not a milestone number such as the 25 th or 40 th or 50 th , but a number worth marking nonetheless --- especially in this day and age. To mark the occasion, I’m posting this column, which I wrote for the January 2018 edition of Jewish Rhode Island of Providence, R.I., in which I shared some of what I learned from being married, at that time, for almost 30 years. The advice remains sound. This column was originally published in the January 2018 edition of Jewish Rhode Island of Providence, R.I. Thirty years ago this Valentine’s Day, I proposed to my wife Lynne in my column in the newspaper where I was working. We were married later that year, and in October we will celebrate our 30 th anniversary. Thirty years certainly pales in comparison to being married 50, 60 or 75 years, but all of those milestones have one thing in common: Staying married for the long haul requires much more than the roma...