Trust, Honest, lots of give & take. Do any of us here have what it takes??? (2)
They wed on May 2, 1930, after only a few months of dating. The groom was 21 and bride was 16. There were four guests at the wedding.
"My mother actually went to the skating rink with my father's brother and when she was standing around in the arena with some of the girls, my dad came in and my mom thought he was going to ask her out," Menzies says.
"He skated right up to my mom and asked her to skate and she went home with him and she never went out with his brother again."
Jessie blushes when asked about what she thought when she first saw Vital.
"He's a hockey player and you know how girls go for hockey players," she says. "It was more or less of a bet. Two other girls said he's coming to skate with them and I said, 'No, he's coming to skate with me.'"
That skate lasted eight decades. They have four children, eight grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.
The world's longest marriage still belongs to Herbert and Zelmyra Fisher of New Bern, N.C. They've been married over 86 years since May 13, 1924. He just turned 105 on June 10 and she's 102.
Vital was a soldier in the Second World War, but was sent home from Scotland after he injured his knee and ended up working at the Hollinger Mine in Timmins. In 1965, the couple moved to Oshawa, where he became the head custodian at Courtice Secondary School. He retired 37 years ago.
The couple has been living at the Port Perry Community Nursing Home since last winter but Jessie is looking for her own private room because she needs a break from her husband's snoring. "You give a little and take a lot," she jokes. "I don't know if I can take another 80 years ... honesty and trust are important in a relationship, too."
"The most romantic thing I remember my father doing was only a few years ago. He used to love going to the dollar store and he came out with a teddy bear holding a heart that said, 'I love you' on it and gave it to my mom," Menzies says. "I thought it was so cute because he had to be in his 90s then."
( To those that do not like a copied story from the news ... here is a great story worth sharing with great lessons to be learned by all of us.) Maybe some of us on here can learn from this and get the relationship we say we are looking for.
"My mother actually went to the skating rink with my father's brother and when she was standing around in the arena with some of the girls, my dad came in and my mom thought he was going to ask her out," Menzies says.
"He skated right up to my mom and asked her to skate and she went home with him and she never went out with his brother again."
Jessie blushes when asked about what she thought when she first saw Vital.
"He's a hockey player and you know how girls go for hockey players," she says. "It was more or less of a bet. Two other girls said he's coming to skate with them and I said, 'No, he's coming to skate with me.'"
That skate lasted eight decades. They have four children, eight grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.
The world's longest marriage still belongs to Herbert and Zelmyra Fisher of New Bern, N.C. They've been married over 86 years since May 13, 1924. He just turned 105 on June 10 and she's 102.
Vital was a soldier in the Second World War, but was sent home from Scotland after he injured his knee and ended up working at the Hollinger Mine in Timmins. In 1965, the couple moved to Oshawa, where he became the head custodian at Courtice Secondary School. He retired 37 years ago.
The couple has been living at the Port Perry Community Nursing Home since last winter but Jessie is looking for her own private room because she needs a break from her husband's snoring. "You give a little and take a lot," she jokes. "I don't know if I can take another 80 years ... honesty and trust are important in a relationship, too."
"The most romantic thing I remember my father doing was only a few years ago. He used to love going to the dollar store and he came out with a teddy bear holding a heart that said, 'I love you' on it and gave it to my mom," Menzies says. "I thought it was so cute because he had to be in his 90s then."
( To those that do not like a copied story from the news ... here is a great story worth sharing with great lessons to be learned by all of us.) Maybe some of us on here can learn from this and get the relationship we say we are looking for.
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PORT PERRY, Ont. - If love means never having to say you're sorry, then most couples probably won't last as long as Jessie and Vital Emard's 80-year marriage.
The couple -- believed to share the longest marriage in Canada -- always talk about their day before going to sleep and both vow never to go to bed angry.
"That's his philosophy -- he told me that many times," says Ron Emard, 77, the couple's second-oldest son. "And if you have an argument, you make up before you go to bed. And you don't worry. That's another thing. Everyone knows stress is the worst thing in your life."
When Vital, now 102, speaks about his loving wife, he always smiles.
"She doesn't look 97," he says to her.
People often say that those in love have to spend every waking moment with each other -- but Vital and Jessie exude their affection towards each other without that.
"She's always worked hard at her marriage and my father still loves her after all these years," says daughter Valerie Menzies, 63.
"He'll just sit and look at her. He won't go to dinner unless my mom is there."
He points up to the ceiling when asked what his secret to a successful marriage is. "God," says Emard. "He thanks God. He's very religious."
In fact, religion caused a rift between their families, but their love has marched on.
"He was Catholic and she was Protestant and the priest said, 'Why don't you find yourself a nice French girl?' " says Emard's wife, Leona. "He didn't want to marry one, so he got married by the minister. He was an altar boy at one point, but he gave it up for her."
The couple met during a hockey game in the winter of 1930. Vital played on a Timmins junior hockey team and when he spotted Jessie Perry in the stands with her vibrant red hair, he skated over to her.
"I thought she was beautiful," Vital says.