It's not easy to keep a marriage going for any amount of time, but staying together happily for more than 50 years is a feat to truly be proud of.
INSIDER asked real couples and their family members for photos of them back when they first fell in love and them today. What we discovered is that love keeps you looking good.
Tim and Allana O'Shea
Tim, 71, and Allana, 70, will have been married for 51 years on March 16, 2019, but their first date was almost a disaster, their daughter Kelly told INSIDER.
"My mother was not very impressed at first," Kelly wrote. "She spent hours getting ready for the date only to find out that my dad's idea of a date was taking a 6-pack of beer to the beach."
But things looked up later when Allana needed a date to a school dance and called Tim. They fell in love and decided to elope on March 16, 1968. Kelly said they are best friends and couldn't imagine life without the other. They recently bought a house at the Jersey Shore.
Judy and Richard Columbus
Columbus, Ohio, is a special place for Judy, 78, and Richard, 79. Not only is it part of their namesake, but the couple met as students at Ohio State University. They've been married for almost 59 years and reside part of the year in New York and part in Palm Desert, California.
Ben Bryant and Elizabeth Hepburn
Ben Bryant and Elizabeth Hepburn met each other on July 26, 1967 at Summer stock, and were so enamored with each other that they married on November 25 of that year.
They were married for about 30 years when they eventually separated, then divorced in 1999. But this story has a happy ending, as they eventually reconciled and remarried in 2010, a process that Ben wrote about in one of his memoirs: "Waiting For Elizabeth (A Love Story)."
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