Monday Memories
We don’t remember the exact date, but I think it was in the fall of 1965. We’d been married five years and I was in graduate school. A local television station in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois was planning to run a marriage advice news story with a test for viewers after the evening news. Somehow we became part of the control group. I believe “experts” at the university prepared the test. We in the control group were to take the test first, then the people watching at home would have a basis of comparison. We’re both a bit fuzzy on the details forty years later. It doesn’t seem like very sound methods to me now because all the control group was part of a young couples group at a local church in Champaign which means we were either students or employees of the university.
After taking the test, my husband and I waited for the results, feeling quite good about our answers and pleased that we’d been invited to participate. Imagine our surprise when we discovered we’d both scored in the 60% range! Almost everyone else got 90% or better. My husband, who rarely gets riled about anything, hissed, “They lied.” In fact, when I asked him about his recollections at dinner last night, he responded, “They all lied.”
To soothe our disappointment that we were
As the anniversaries piled up--10, 20, 30, 40, and moving on to 50, we’ve had some good laughs about the day we flunked the marriage test. And we've wondered about what became of the top scorers.
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Interesting! It would be great to have some follow-up and hear how many of the other participating couples are still together, wouldn't it?
Good Morning Norma. I'm with Joan! Wonder if those couples are coming up on a 50th anniversary. Congratulations!
My MM is up.
That's so funny! You sure showed those "experts" - I wonder how many of them are still married, ha ha. Too bad you don't have a copy of the test with your answers to look at after all these years.
Oh, what do experts know???? You have defied them all.
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hahaha! I just tagged you too.
Just show's you never can trust what the "expert's" say! ;)
Great MM!! Thanks for visiting mine!
Tests like that always make me laugh. You can't tell who is going to last in a marriage. Marriages are (well, should be) about two people facing life together and growing with each new experience. How can you tell with a test what people will be facing?
And 90%?! I agree with your husband - they definitely lied!
At this point, I'm guessing there's a problem with the test and not with anything in your marriage :)
Happy Anniversaries, all of them!
That's priceless. So the lesson here is, fail the marriage test, succeed at marriage...
Congrats on beating the odds (I bet all those other couples are divorced now!).
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