My wife and I and a group of our neighbors were chatting the other day, and it dawned on us that there are eight houses in a row on our block in which each of the couples has been married for more than 50 years! Well, not quite. My wife and I are the “newlyweds” on the street. We’ve only been married 48 years. But the other seven couples have all reached the half-century mark. That’s more than 400 years of wedded bliss on our block alone. (OK, let’s be honest. It was mostly bliss. There was no doubt a little bit of grief and sadness, or whatever is the opposite of bliss, in those 400-plus years.)
Anyway, it’s still a remarkable achievement. I think you'd be hard-pressed to find another block with that many adjacent homes of marital harmony. (Interestingly, the major crossing street to our neighborhood is called “Harmony Road!”)
