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Thread started 06/30/15 1:03pm

PurpleJedi

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Fairy Tale love stories...impossible in today's society?

I came across this story today;

San Diego Couple's Final ...f Marriage

Jeannette and Alexander Toczko spent their lives in love.

So it was only fitting that after nearly 75 years of marriage, they died within a day of each other, their final wish fulfilled.

They were both born in Stamford, Connecticut, in 1919, the children of Polish immigrants, both coming from large families. The couple began dating when they were 8 years old, according to their children Richard and Aimee.

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Alexander went first, on June 17, with his wife by his side.

"And he died in her arms, which is exactly what he wanted. I went in there and told my mother he was gone; she hugged him and she said, 'See, this is what you wanted. You died in my arms and I love you. I love you, wait for me, I'll be there soon,'" Toczko-Cushman said.

Jeannette died a day later.

The couple was buried Monday, with relatives holding a funeral mass and joint 75th anniversary ceremony.



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So...they had been "together" since the age of 8 until the age of 96 & 95.

Is this sort of thing even possible nowadays? Has our society/culture gotten to a point where relationships are EXPECTED to end prematurely?

hmmm

What say you?



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Reply #1 posted 06/30/15 1:22pm

morningsong

Honestly, I think one never knows what went on between them in that time. Sometimes I wonder if people of that era expected they should tolerate or overlook things in their partner that few would overlook today. They weren't that in love all the time and they went through many phases that just ended up with acceptance, reliance and comfort. Then there's the concept I've heard from a lot of older women about maintaining their "mystery", their husbands only know certain things about them.

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Reply #2 posted 06/30/15 1:25pm

RodeoSchro

Of course not. The most important thing in any relationship is communication. You can bet they had great communication.

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Reply #3 posted 06/30/15 1:35pm

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I have seen many of these stories on the net where spouses die shortly after the other spouse. Broken heart maybe or just wanting to be with them.

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Reply #4 posted 06/30/15 10:08pm

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RodeoSchro said:

Of course not. The most important thing in any relationship is communication. You can bet they had great communication.


From your past posts, it seems you might have this kind of love story too! So I think it's still possible.
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Reply #5 posted 07/03/15 7:11pm

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I think this is cuter than cute I'd like to think it's still possible. Don't forget that some cultures still arrange marriages, right or wrong.

A coworker whose been married more than 30 years told me once that there was a time when he and his wife went through a stage when they both praaaayed the other would die in their sleep, LOL, but they worked through it.

You never know.
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Reply #6 posted 07/04/15 5:39am

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It's like this for my grandparents who are 85 and 89 and have been married for 68 years. They still argue like nobody's business but at the end of the day still support each other. It's amazing to witness.
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Reply #7 posted 07/04/15 9:07am

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That's the way it used to be back in the day. Couples didn't use divorce like an easy "get out of jail free" card. They made sacrifices to keep the marriage together, and often put their spouse's needs before their own. Today's society is very different, very self centered.

Impossible in today's society? No, there are some people that still have old fashioned values. The hard part is finding someone else who grew up with the same values.

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Reply #8 posted 07/06/15 5:53am

PurpleJedi

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Pokeno4Money said:

That's the way it used to be back in the day. Couples didn't use divorce like an easy "get out of jail free" card. They made sacrifices to keep the marriage together, and often put their spouse's needs before their own. Today's society is very different, very self centered.

Impossible in today's society? No, there are some people that still have old fashioned values. The hard part is finding someone else who grew up with the same values.


"Needle-in-the-haystack" type of HARD, or "Prince-gets-new-top40hit" type HARD?

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Reply #9 posted 07/06/15 9:09am

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I think in today's society it's nearly impossible. We live in a microwave society: quickie marriages, quickie divorces. We want instant gratification. We put ourselves first and our own happiness first. If we're unhappy, we blame someone else. We've lost the art of communication. It's all textese and sound bites. We multi-task, rather than focusing on any one thing for more than a few moments, even when we are in the same room with someone else. The older generation grew up in a time when they were focused on family, supporting that family, and weathering the storm together. Today, people always think that when the going gets tough, they don't need to weather it out together and this is evident to them they didn't belong together to begin with. We're always thinking the grass is greener on the other side, and it's okay to jump the fence instead of watering the lawn on our side. Marriage is no longer held sacred the way it was in the '50s and prior. Social media, instant news, chat programs, etc., have not helped us to learn how to be together, it's taught how to not be together. IMHO.

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Reply #10 posted 07/06/15 9:45am

morningsong

Thought the picture of their last time together in bed was in poor taste. But their story was nice, the bond that grew between them. It still happens I think even though divorce rates are high not everyone gets divorced and even those that do there are still those that find their soulmate the next go-around. I see a lot of very committed people just not as many as I would like there to be.
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Reply #11 posted 07/06/15 10:21am

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Most couples didn't divorce "back in the day" because of the lack of opportunity for women so that they could make it on their own. Typically it was the woman who put everyone's needs before her own and that's just what marriage was. Did that make it a happy, successful marriage? No way, not for many women. And of course, many marriages were miserable for men too. Not putting up with infidelity, abuse and incompatibility is hardly self centered.

The problem with marriage isn't the divorce, it's people with unrealistic expectations and demands getting married in the first place.

Marriage has never been sacred for most people, if it was there never would be any cheating or any kind of abuse and we all know that's been going on for...well, forever.

Fairy tales don't exist, but of course loving, long term, successful marriages do. Of course it's possible.

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