For most long-married couples, "happily ever after" does not just happen.

And when one fell, the other fell soon thereafter, in the manner of long-married couples.

We laughed in the way long-married couples do, intimate laughter, expressing more than what we said.

Paul intercepted a look the long-married couple shared.

A recent study of long-married couples supports an old belief.

They have the easy, humorous tenderness of a long-married couple.

Many years later, Jack and Madylyn return home from church for what appears to be a quiet afternoon in the life of a long-married couple.

They also behave, with each other, like a long-married couple who find themselves bored, dissatisfied and on the rocks.

He knew the stories about old, long-married couples where, when one spouse died, the other followed soon after, as if finding life alone not worth living.

So the two long-married couples in the film yearn for adventure, no matter what the cost.