Have you ever both been too busy to celebrate your wedding anniversary?

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Just wondered how common this is versus celebrating every year. My husband works very long hours in stressful job, I run my own business and we have young DC so it’s not been possible to organise anything - no other family to come and babysit. We are both kind of resigned to it but a part of me worries that we should try harder to make it happen.

Has anyone else not really celebrated but still happily married?

🤣🤣 Now that is sweet!

Well I booked a half marathon on our anniversary! I feel like we celebrate being married every day, we don't particularly feel the need to go away or do anything big. We'll probably have a takeaway at home or something like that.

Its a mixture tbh. 25 years married we fecked off on hols for ourselves and very nice it was too. But we dont have small kids now.
20 years ago, 16 years ago, who knows what we did. I dont think we went our for dinner or anything major but I know even if we were ships that passed in the night over the years, there would always be a moment where one of us would stop and say ' its our anniversary honey" and we would have a hug or a kiss and remember our lovely day. And go back about the chaos.
Celebrating the day doesnt have to be a big thing, it cn be a quiet moment between 2 people who know what their marriage means to them and only them.

We don’t really celebrate ours beyond a card. My parents also never have and they’ve been married for 54 years and still going strong.

Is your anniversary soon OP? I always think it’s harder to celebrate things at this time of year(my birthday is in Christmas week).

I’d be surprised if my DH remembers the date. We’ve never celebrated an anniversary I don’t think, married for 9 years.

We never celebrate our wedding anniversary. Occasionally we give a card, but if the other one has forgotten it’s no big deal.

Interesting thread. My DH and I never celebrated ours, nor much else.

We are divorcing now and that’s one of the lessons I’m taking with me: celebrate each other, even the little things, or the habit never gets established and you lose that fundamental feeling of ‘this marriage is worth cherishing’.

We are happily married but since having children (they are still young) our wedding anniversary is not something we have actively celebrated beyond mentioning it to each other. We’re happy with this and have a great relationship day to day.

We always celebrate but not always on the actual day. Last year we took a week holiday (no children thanks to my parents) 4 weeks later. Next year we are going away for 3 days (again thank to my parents having the kids) 3 weeks early in the Easter holidays.

I was asked to confirm ID with my wedding anniversary by DWP recently. I didnt know it !
Never celebrated it, not interested

We rarely remember. I had to think hard just now to recall the date.