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- It has become less common for people to have long marriages.
- However, for these Chicago couples who gathered at the Holy Name Cathedral to celebrate their 50th anniversaries, love has carried them for decades.
- Some of the couples shared their secret to making a marriage last.
Wedding anniversaries are proof that marriages do last. Even though it may be a bumpy road at times, when two people decide to stay together and work through their issues, it works out. Fifty years is half a century and an entire lifetime for these couples who gathered in Chicago at the Holy Name Cathedral to celebrate 50 years of marriage with their partners.
It was a moment that signifies for better, for worse, in sickness and in health, until we are parted by death. NBC 12 interviewed some of the couples who were joined by their family members and others around Chicago to renew their vows.
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One couple, Barbara and Walter Didiw, said they met when Barbara first came to the cathedral at age 20. "We'd known each other for only two weeks," she says.
Another couple spoke to the news channel and expressed how time flies by so quickly. "It was very emotional. I hadn't thought about coming here, but when you're in there and you start thinking 50 years have gone by and all the experiences we've had together," Carl Meyer said.
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Some couples also took the time to share some serious and not so serious advice for a long-lasting marriage:
1. "Never go to bed angry." - Jim McLemore said.
2. "We may not be lucky at cards but we're always lucky in love." - Pat McLemore said.
3. "Be it negative or positive, you have to communicate. You can't read each other's minds, you have to communicate." - Cythia Morales said.
4. "A sense of humour is very important." - Adrienne Mitchell said.
6. "I learned one thing - She's always right." - Dino Mitchell added.
Sources: ABC 7 Chicago, Fox 8, CBS 7
