Secrets of Staying (Happily) Married

Gillian Laub

“There’s nothing so nice as a new marriage,” the screenwriter Ben Hecht once wrote. The seven couples here would beg to differ. More than fifty years in, they share their most unforgettable moments in videos by Gillian Laub.

Married 51 Years: Stella & Ben SonnenscheinOne week after meeting on a blind date, the Holocaust survivors wed―and they haven’t regretted a day of their union.
Married 53 Years: Ayako Kawakami & Harold “Pete” PetersenA chance meeting in a Japan mess hall between an army staff sergeant and a teenaged visitor turned into a lifelong romance.
Married 54 Years: Barbara & Morgan BarokasThe high school sweethearts attribute their success to giving each other space.
Married 60 Years: Betty & Louis ChernoffThe Franklin, Michigan couple met at a junior-high-school dance and still jitterbug every day.