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Topic: Has anyone ever forgotten your anniversary?

Topic Posted by: Roxie
Date Posted: Fri Nov 13 23:36:25 2009
Additional Comments: I hate to get off the political topics... NOT! LOL! But I have to ask if I'm the only woman who has ever forgotten their own anniversary. I expect it from Mr. Roxie, but I totally forgot our anniversary until I had to write the date down late that afternoon. We laughed about it and ran out to get each other a crappy card saying how much we love each other, but I think it was a little late for the sentiment at that point! It was our 17th, if that matters any.

Posted by: maggimae
Date posted: Sun Nov 15 21:28:11 2009
Message:
Roxie, this has been a really fun topic. Thanks for posting it. I have to tell you about my parents. Just before their 40th anniversary, my mother divorced my dad. Then they got together again and I had the honor of being Matron of Honor when she remarried him. We certainly are a screwed up family.

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Wow, mm. LOL! I bet there's not many people who have been MOH at their parent's wedding! That is wonderful...Roxie

Posted by: Carima
Date posted: Sun Nov 15 18:13:33 2009
Message:
I forgot the anniversary of the day we met, and hubby remembered! I felt terrible, but also felt really good that he remembered it. He can't forget our anniversary because it is engraved on his ring. I am the one who has to write it on the calendar. And we are going to celebrate our 5th next year.
My parents are married 61 years and my father never forgets because they got married on his birthday!

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Carima, my daughter had a lot of napkins left over from her wedding. They had the date on them. Every year she would start using the napkins just before their anniversary. BTW, congrats on 5 years. It gets easier the longer you are married./mm

Posted by: Katnim
Date posted: Sun Nov 15 14:36:03 2009
Message:
I never forgot my anniversary but my husband forgot our 25th anniversary until my sister-in-law and her husband came around with a gift. He thought it was the sixth which was actually our middle son's birthdate.

Posted by: dolphina
Date posted: Sun Nov 15 12:07:58 2009
Message:
Congratulations to all of you who've posted about your long marriages! I don't have an anniversary that I have to remember (although I do usually still remember it) but I'm getting to the point where I'd rather forget my birthdays.

Posted by: Sammie
Date posted: Sat Nov 14 21:23:56 2009
Message:
Our Grandson was born three days before our anniversary. Our daughter called us three weeks before her due date and said they were leaving for the hospital. We immediately packed our bags and left for Chicago. When we got there he was already three hrs. old. With all the excitement and helping take care of the baby, we didn't realize we had forgotten our anniversary until a week later. That's how excited we were to have a Grandson. We have enjoyed him for seventeen years and he has been a blessing to us. We have been married 48 years and that was the only anniversary we forgot.

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Well Sammie, at least you had a very good excuse for forgetting that one! That is understandable. Having a new grandbaby would definitely take priority over an anniversary. We had a new grandson Sept. 28 and we're still on that 'new grandbaby high'! He's actually my step-grandson, but no difference. There's nothing like it. If that's the only one that slipped your mind in 48 years, you are doing good! Roxie

Roxie, I'm with you on grandchildren. I dated my husband for 6 1/2 years. Then I found out his daughter was pregnant. We were married a month before he was born. Hubby jokes that we didn't want him to be illigetimate. LOL. We now have ten grandchildren./mm

Roxie, this is such a fun time for you and your husband. Watching them grow and change and learn. I also loved buying the cute clothes and fun toys. I miss that. We only have one daughter and two grandchildren. Enjoy them while you can. /Sammie

Posted by: Suellen
Date posted: Sat Nov 14 16:07:12 2009
Message:
Our kids forget but didn't last yr when we celebrated our 50th with a Cancun trip. Tomorrow is our 51st so no big deal this year. Darn, the longer we are together the harder it will be to be apart!!

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Congratulations, Suellen! Quite an accomplishment to be married 51 years to the same man!/mm

Congrats Suellen and Happy 51st Anniversary! Roxie

Happy Anniversary, Suellen! / Sammie

Posted by: Mrs. B. Harris
Date posted: Sat Nov 14 15:37:36 2009
Message:

Both my parents forgot their 35th anniversary. I know this because I called to wish them a happy anniversary and my mother started laughing and asked my daddy "is today the third?"

I guess after so many years it wasn't that big a deal to either of them. Sadly, my father died a few months before their 50th anniversary.

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So sorry about your father, Mrs BH. But it's wonderful that your parents had 50 years together and celebrated their golden anniversary! Roxie

Thanks Roxie! Actually they dated for about three years before they got married. They had a long and happy life together. (Mrs. B. H.)

Posted by: maggimae
Date posted: Sat Nov 14 13:43:22 2009
Message:
Nope, never have. My husband damn well better not as he married me on the same date as he married his first wife. LOL. We don't exchange gifts, but he always plans something special for the day.

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mm, that's funny. Our anniversary is the same day as my first marriage, too. I thought I was the only one who would get married twice on the same date! I didn't tell hubby this until after we got married. My 1st husband was also hubby's best friend. And NO, it's not like that, lol. There was 22 years between marriages and I'd been divorced from 1st husband for 17 years. Roxie

Posted by: silver
Date posted: Sat Nov 14 11:53:32 2009
Message:
Yes, husband and I each forgot our anniversary a couple of years ago. Didn't bother me a bit. I don't care if he forgets important dates because he always remembers to come directly home with a check in hand. LOL That's the important thing. He sometimes remembers my birthday because/if someone reminds him. He remembers Xmas because Santa mugs him at the mall. But one thing he never forgets is Valentine's day.

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LOL silver. So right! I can overlook hubby forgetting anything as long as he remembers to hand those checks over. Roxie