What are the odds of a marriage lasting 65 years? Experts calculate that only 1 in 650,000 marriages will last 65 years. And in their 70 year relationship only 1 in a million will be virgins when they marry. There are 4.1 million divorces per year in America each year … 50% in the first year, I believe, due to cohabitation prior to marriage. That’s the reason for the poem up front regarding Virginity Begets and Regrets…. loyalty and being faithful are underlying in all our 12 Vows. We believe we are our reality, due to our lifestyle, and everyone we meet wants to know “what’s your secret for being married 65 years looking as good as you two look and how can we get what you’ve got”? With tongue in cheek, I get a laugh, when I say its ‘Sex, Kids and Rock-N-Roll.” But in essence, it’s a give and take loyal partnership and we have defied the conventional aging wisdom…which is to retire at 55, 60 or 65 and start the dying process. We, however, in our early seventies, acquired three nursing homes then sold them in our late seventies and started a new career…co-writing this book about how our vows formed a lasting happy relationship, and reformed them if needed, to stay happily married together forever after…