Don and Lorrie Davidson celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary on May 21
The couple revealed their best advice for a long-lasting marriage to Los Alamos Daily Post
They both agreed to “not to go to bed angry with each other” and to “talk out your disagreements”
One couple celebrating their 70th wedding anniversary is revealing the key to a long-lasting marriage.
Don and Lorrie Davidson of White Rock, New Mexico, marked 70 years of marriage on Wednesday, May 21. The pair told Carol A. Clark of Los Alamos Daily Post what their advice is for younger couples hoping to reach seven decades together too.
“We believed our wedding vows never tarnished, they are as bright and shiny as they were 70 years ago!” Don said. “My advice would be not to go to bed angry with each other, work out the differences that arise. Most differences are not important in the grand scheme of life.”
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Don and Lorrie Davidson
He continued, “Give over 50% of everything. The reason I fell in love with her is that I felt she was the missing piece to the jigsaw puzzle of my life; without her, I am incomplete.”
Lorrie agreed with her husband’s words of wisdom.
“If there are differences of opinion, don’t let them fester,” she said. “Talk out your disagreements and don’t go to bed angry at each other.”
The duo met at the Illinois Insurance Bureau office and were close friends before they entered a romantic relationship with each other. Don and Lorrie dated for a few years before tying the knot in 1955 at the Trinity Episcopal Church in Wheaton, Illinois, when they were 26 and 23 years old, respectively.
Before settling in White Rock in 1973, the pair moved 14 times within their marriage for Don’s job in the military and insurance business. Once in New Mexico, Don became a fire protection and safety engineer at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Meanwhile, Lorrie ran The Shop on the Corner in the Episcopal church for 24 years.
Over the years, the couple welcomed five children and gained 9 grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild. They have also been highly involved with Order of the Eastern Star, the Scottish Rite and Shriners, York Rite and are devout members of Trinity on the Hill Episcopal Church.
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Don and Lorrie Davidson
Earlier this year, England-based couple Derek and Brenda Dodge, another couple who celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary, told the BBC in March that the key to a good marriage is “love, respect for one another, patience, being truthful and to understand you don’t always have to agree.”
Back in January, centenarian couple Betty and Elton Denner reflected on the success behind their long-lasting marriage, just three months after celebrating their 82nd wedding anniversary.
“Their advice for a loving relationship is simple: patience, don’t win an argument, do things together, with each other and the Lord,” the couple’s daughter, Christie Regan, told PEOPLE.
She continued, “They credit their faith in Jesus as the strength in their marriage, guiding them each and every day. The love of their Lord has blessed and sustained them.”
In February, the longest-living married couple at the time, Manoel Angelim Dino and Maria de Sousa Dino, said their answer to their 84-year union is simple: love.
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