{"id":549712,"date":"2026-04-25T08:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T08:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/549712\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T08:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T08:29:08","slug":"what-ive-learned-in-50-years-of-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/549712\/","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019ve learned in 50 years of marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p role=\"text\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"is_Paragraph font_caslonIonic _dsp-inline _bxs-border-box _ww-break-word _mt-0px _mr-0px _mb-0px _ml-0px _ff-f-family _fw-f-weight-3048 _fs-f-size-18 _lh-f-lineHeigh3500605 _col-grey_600 _select-auto _ws-normal\">I just told her this magazine wanted to know more about our relationship for its relaunch issue, and asked her to describe it. \u201cCombative,\u201d she said, a little too promptly. Maybe, but it\u2019s been a long old ceasefire, mostly. There are many things to celebrate about our shared life. Economic stability, eventually, after endless remortgages, downsizing, overdrafts. Four uniquely miraculous grandchildren. The fact we\u2019re still both here \u2013 not nothing given we\u2019re both cancer survivors with plenty of ill-health side quests. Like the noble pair in Larkin\u2019s An Arundel Tomb, we too have suffered decades of soundless damage. And, sorry kids, what will survive of us too will be love, as any inheritance will probably be gobbled up by privatised care.\u00a0Happy anniversary, baby!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I just told her this magazine wanted to know more about our relationship for its relaunch issue, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2973,96,242,59,2415,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-549712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-comedy","tag-entertainment","tag-features","tag-gb","tag-relationships","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}