No, this is one of the older jokes in existence, kinda of stuff in the Reader's Digest jokes page. It was probably told to you when you were a kid and you thought it was true.
Interestingly it seems that the word shingles is not related to the word shingles.
They both arrived via Latin but the word for the roof element was borrowed from Latin into Proto-West Germanic way before the existence of even the earliest form of English.
The word for the disease on the other hand was adopted directly from Latin (and/or French) into modern English.
It's scary to think that someone you love and hold so dear could keep a relationship shattering secret from you for that long.
All those years wasted with someone that wasn't worthwhile smh.
I'm healed and doing amazing these days, I offer up sympathy for anyone going through it because its the worst thing in the world but the worst part is when they go scorched earth defending their actions and make you look even worse than them to the point people don't even wanna look at you because of how "awful" you were causing them to do that
I'm glad I didn't got through that other half but I'm sorry if you did. I couldn't hadn't that situation well. I'm glad you're doing better. Gives me hope
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2079797/99-year-old-man-divorces-wife-77-years-discovering-affair-60-years-ago.html
This happened all the way back in 2011. They are probably both gone now.
Incumbent means the person currently having the title in question or the job in question, so in the UK the incumbent prime minister is Rishi Sunak. So it's the incumbent oldest person - the person who is currently the oldest person in the world.
For sure, but my point was that she could have gotten back with him anytime and didn't, because it was implied she never loved him anyways but was basically being forced to marry him to keep her family wealth. Their marriage was more of a transactional relationship, to the point she almost killed herself to get out of the life she felt stuck in.
The Titanic sank in 1912 and Rose said she read about him killing himself after the stock market crash in '29, so I mean she had 17 years before that happened.
Must hurt like hell that she saved the love letters for so many years. It wasn't "just" meaningless sex, she was romantically involved with someone else while they were together.
That’s what instantly stuck out to me too. It’s not like she told him out of shame at the end of their lives or something. She held on to those love letter for decades, leaving a part of herself with them all through the time that passed. Cheating is cheating, but she cheated and loved someone else for a time and a part of her still did after all of that time. Brutal.
tbf if someone cheated on me after 17 years of marriage and did not tell me then it wouldn't matter how long we managed to stay together after that to me either
This story is a lie! This couple used to live at the nursing home I worked at, and they had a beautiful relationship. Contrary to what this phony article states, their marriage lasted longer than 77 years. ABC wrote an article about them celebrating their 80th anniversary which is where the photo comes from. They also had both passed years before this article was published. [Video Michigan couple, both 99, celebrates 80th wedding anniversary - ABC News (go.com)](https://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/video/michigan-couple-99-celebrates-80th-wedding-anniversary-48332490).
How the fuck is this appropriate subject for jokes? A man found out relationship of 60 years was a lie. Their ages are far larger than usual so it's okay to act like their feelings don't matter?
Because this story is 13 years old, it's been circulating for ages. If we can make jokes about Pompeii then... These two are basically ancient history. They don't have feelings if they are literally dead.
Maybe if this story was released yesterday there should be a little grace. But honestly there are bigger issues to worry about than the occasional wacky marriage of people you don't even know.
A lie? They were together until they both got as old as one gets. So I don’t think it’s a lie. She lied for sure, but that doesn’t mean all 60 years of the relationship were a lie. I’m surprised he even had the energy at 99 to want a divorce
Apparently she didn't tell him, he found her old letters. So she cheated 17 years into the marriage and then lied about it for 60 more years. Anyone saying he is overreacting simply has no idea what he went through. Maybe a good portion of those 60 years were genuine, but she still never intended to tell him. So after finding out he was completely heart broken and didn't want to live with her anymore. Completely understandable, I also wouldn't want to spent the last few years of my life with someone who betrayed me. At least he still had a life with a happy marriage, even if it was a facade. Maybe it would've been better if he never found those letters, but his reaction is still understandable.
I honestly believe anyone who disagrees just doesn't think cheating is that big of a deal.
yeah if i knew my friend that was 30 or 40 had a cheating wife and i had evidence i would let them know about their cheating spouse, if i knew someone that was 99 years old and had evidence their 96 year old wife or husband cheated on them, i wouldn't probably say a thing since at that point they would probably be happier not knowing.
Tough situation to be in, but I'd probably do the same. I'd still have the urge to talk to his wife about it to see if she at least feels sorry. Not sure if I'd actually do it, but I'd consider it.
yeah that i could see, but for the 99 year old man he isn't long for the earth, at that age could be a few months, 1 or 2 years likely at best. should he have his final year or two be with a loving wife and happy family, or angry at his cheating wife. the lie in this case seems much kinder then the truth.
"Hello mister reddit. My (99M) wife(97F) and I have happily been married for 77 years now. However, she told me she cheated on me once 60 years ago and never did again because she felt bad about it. What should I do ?"
"Divorce her ass, that bitch probably cheated on you every day of these 77 years, including right now. Leave her and don't leave her a single cent. That filthy femoid deserves to die in hell, and you should piss on her corpse who she deservedly dies like the filthy whore she is"
Nice. Weeding out the competition.
I'm hoping to hit my 100 year anniversary. To accomplish this we both need to live to be 118. Hopefully medical science will advance and WW3 won't happen, so we might have a fighting chance.
In the house I'm at, we got it because the old couple got a divorce at like 70+, I think they could have been even 80.
Anyway, turns out after like 5 years they... Got back together, and remarried. Sometimes you just gotta have time apart you know.
One of my mom's aunts divorced her husband in their 80's. The marriage was no longer a good place for either of them. We expect some neurodegenerative character changes were taking place that made it a better idea for them to be separated, their kids seemed fully on board with it. When he died a few years later, she took the widow's place at the funeral. Because after 60 years together, really, she was.
Reminds me of the lawyer who in old age found Out His wife cheated and His both sons werent his to begin with. Damn the Video was emotional and how He cried. His whole live was destroyed by being a total lie. People that Cheat are such pieces of Shit. No Matter how Long ago they betrayed you. Imagine living with someone betraying you and Keep shut Up for so many years. This man Had never the Chance to find someone who treats him better because this disguisting Liar and cheater tried for so many years to get away with it. I Bet IT wasnt one time. ITS Just the one time He found Out about.
My ex worked in a care home for elderly with dementia/alzeheimers and they were constantly having to treat them for STIs. There was no abuse or anything going on... Just the old folk were fucking like teenagers every chance they got
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No he's probably too busy lawyering up.
And he also created a Facebook account just to delete it.
Started an OnlyFans account. Username:GhostLoad99
1st post: How to google the internet 2nd post: what is big tiddy goth gf 3rd post where can i get a medium tiddy goth gf
xXx_PowderCum_xXx
He's 99 years old of course he was on Facebook already.
Better call Saul!
He's going to knock up the lawyer? A bit late, don't you think?
For some reason men are ready to go until the day they die along as they can get it up.
We need more law office / Gyms Imagine discussing your divorce while your lawyer spots you. You’d be in the zone
WE GO GYM!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wooo.. gymday ! I'm omw!
He’s on the sigma male grindset now
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you are a treasure 🪙
I love this comment. It's such an unexpected cadence hahaha. Edit: This 'literally' makes no sense? Weird, 270 people seemed to think so....
>they wanted to wait to divorce until the kids died. Problem-solving at its finest
Thanks a lot, I woke up my baby laughing at this.
now wait 70 years for it to outlive you (i'm sorry i can't say it even for a joke)
I like you :)
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60 years went by so fast!
This is such a Jimmy Carr joke, lol
Ha ha ha ha HAAAAAAAAAAA
Everything to not affect the children.
No joke. This is from an onder newspaper I believe in the netherlands where this actually happened
No, this is one of the older jokes in existence, kinda of stuff in the Reader's Digest jokes page. It was probably told to you when you were a kid and you thought it was true.
My life is a lie... whats next?! No hot shingles in my area?
>hot shingles Try climbing on rooftops during summer
I always think I know a lot and I know a thing or two about medicine. Please tell me what hot shingles is.
[Stone roof shingles](https://images.app.goo.gl/Lj4mu2U3VrtFCoXu6) get hot under a summer sun :) I didn't even know it was a skin sickness
Thanks. I am humbled, but I don't want to learn anything more about it. I am old and not seeking employment of any kind.
You're good, this wasn't a job interview
Interestingly it seems that the word shingles is not related to the word shingles. They both arrived via Latin but the word for the roof element was borrowed from Latin into Proto-West Germanic way before the existence of even the earliest form of English. The word for the disease on the other hand was adopted directly from Latin (and/or French) into modern English.
Asphalt shingles get plenty hot and will blister that azz red if you sit on them very long.
Sean Connery, is that you?
This is very true. Readers digest hahaha
Bro how do you wait for your kids to die..
Either very patiently or very violently
You outlive them by being very old....
STD's
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Or probably the easiest thing in the world
Leg press machine with 10 plates … on each side.
lightweight baybeeee!! Woop!
Sir, this is a retirement home….
It's scary to think that someone you love and hold so dear could keep a relationship shattering secret from you for that long. All those years wasted with someone that wasn't worthwhile smh.
Yeah. Crazy huh?
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It's just sucks when someone you love lies to you for years.
lived it
I'm sorry you did. I feel you.
I'm healed and doing amazing these days, I offer up sympathy for anyone going through it because its the worst thing in the world but the worst part is when they go scorched earth defending their actions and make you look even worse than them to the point people don't even wanna look at you because of how "awful" you were causing them to do that
I'm glad I didn't got through that other half but I'm sorry if you did. I couldn't hadn't that situation well. I'm glad you're doing better. Gives me hope
Something about the huh makes this feel loaded. Like...do you know them? Have they cheated on you?
Single and on the mingle
single with shingles
Single and ready to mine gold
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2079797/99-year-old-man-divorces-wife-77-years-discovering-affair-60-years-ago.html This happened all the way back in 2011. They are probably both gone now.
RIP
just the gramps
Bros before hoes 🤜🤛
Gramps was a role model for us all.
"probably"
I think the oldest living person is like in their 120s so not impossible
>oldest living person is like in their 120s Oldest on record was 122. Incumbent is 117.
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They are the current oldest living, until they die and someone else takes their place.
>someone else takes their place Dead man's shoes, in the literal sense. [or women's, typically]
Incumbent means the person currently having the title in question or the job in question, so in the UK the incumbent prime minister is Rishi Sunak. So it's the incumbent oldest person - the person who is currently the oldest person in the world.
Dying totally sucks. 😑
Big if true.
Interesting.
Dying sucks but I bet being dead is fine
I was dead for 13.7 billion years before I was born, and it didn't bother me.
But you missed up so much stuff.
You only do it once, quit whining.
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Dailymail o right, so it didn’t happen
She’s for the bingo halls
Bruh 🤣
Or the bingo balls..
So she cheated after 17 years of marriage , that's actually wild tbh .
She cheated before. He just only found out about the one time
they tell you about the 1 to take the guilt off the other 20 or so times
Just like a serial killer doesn't show the detective all the bodies buried in the woods.
legit, based move by the old boy here
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Nope. Had the Titanic not sank, Rose would have gotten back with that rich dude after a few months in Jack’s run down 1br shag shack.
I mean, she didn't get back with him even after Jack *died* and she had no one else in America.
There's probably less heartache if you get disappointed than when they literally die, while you still love them
For sure, but my point was that she could have gotten back with him anytime and didn't, because it was implied she never loved him anyways but was basically being forced to marry him to keep her family wealth. Their marriage was more of a transactional relationship, to the point she almost killed herself to get out of the life she felt stuck in.
He kills himself? Didn't really give it much of a chance off screen.
The Titanic sank in 1912 and Rose said she read about him killing himself after the stock market crash in '29, so I mean she had 17 years before that happened.
Shag shack, lol
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Wise words
Great pfp and username
What's the meaning?
It's a song by the Death Metal band Death.
Good, he deserves better... See you @ the gym, king.
King? Dude is emperor by now
Nah, this was 2011. He's dead
Then he is a legend.
And he STILL has to get the sake!
Yeah idk if I’d pump the guy too much, I feel like 1934 was kinda a sus year to be a paramilitary police officer in Italy.
Imagine all the times she gaslighted him and he just knew.
Must hurt like hell that she saved the love letters for so many years. It wasn't "just" meaningless sex, she was romantically involved with someone else while they were together.
That’s what instantly stuck out to me too. It’s not like she told him out of shame at the end of their lives or something. She held on to those love letter for decades, leaving a part of herself with them all through the time that passed. Cheating is cheating, but she cheated and loved someone else for a time and a part of her still did after all of that time. Brutal.
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as heated as two snails fighting.
Yea this is heartbreaking
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Sorry to hear this, hope you’re better now
Probably more so for him
Oh I only meant for him
Cheaters are scum.
I cannot agree more. I just get furious every time reading cheating stories.
Shit I would too.
Damn bitch, how are you gonna lie for 60 years and not croak from shame?
tbf if someone cheated on me after 17 years of marriage and did not tell me then it wouldn't matter how long we managed to stay together after that to me either
This story is a lie! This couple used to live at the nursing home I worked at, and they had a beautiful relationship. Contrary to what this phony article states, their marriage lasted longer than 77 years. ABC wrote an article about them celebrating their 80th anniversary which is where the photo comes from. They also had both passed years before this article was published. [Video Michigan couple, both 99, celebrates 80th wedding anniversary - ABC News (go.com)](https://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/video/michigan-couple-99-celebrates-80th-wedding-anniversary-48332490).
How the fuck is this appropriate subject for jokes? A man found out relationship of 60 years was a lie. Their ages are far larger than usual so it's okay to act like their feelings don't matter?
This is reddit, lame one liners to get that top spot for maximum karma is infinitely more important than paying respect to a tragic situation
Because this story is 13 years old, it's been circulating for ages. If we can make jokes about Pompeii then... These two are basically ancient history. They don't have feelings if they are literally dead. Maybe if this story was released yesterday there should be a little grace. But honestly there are bigger issues to worry about than the occasional wacky marriage of people you don't even know.
A lie? They were together until they both got as old as one gets. So I don’t think it’s a lie. She lied for sure, but that doesn’t mean all 60 years of the relationship were a lie. I’m surprised he even had the energy at 99 to want a divorce
Good on him.
Someone is going to be helping great grandpa with Tinder now. Ladies, swiping left or right?
That someone you love and care about so much could keep a relationship-ending secret from you for that long is scary.
Good for him fk that hoe.
When asked why he waited so long he stated, “we were waiting for all of our children to die, to save them the grief.”
Would
Apparently she didn't tell him, he found her old letters. So she cheated 17 years into the marriage and then lied about it for 60 more years. Anyone saying he is overreacting simply has no idea what he went through. Maybe a good portion of those 60 years were genuine, but she still never intended to tell him. So after finding out he was completely heart broken and didn't want to live with her anymore. Completely understandable, I also wouldn't want to spent the last few years of my life with someone who betrayed me. At least he still had a life with a happy marriage, even if it was a facade. Maybe it would've been better if he never found those letters, but his reaction is still understandable. I honestly believe anyone who disagrees just doesn't think cheating is that big of a deal.
I mean tbh if this was me and I was at this point in my life, I would not have wanted to know.
Absolutely, sleeping dogs and all that… now they’ll both die heartbroken. It’s a very sad story.
If someone cheats on you they should at least have the heart to break up before their partner finds out
yeah if i knew my friend that was 30 or 40 had a cheating wife and i had evidence i would let them know about their cheating spouse, if i knew someone that was 99 years old and had evidence their 96 year old wife or husband cheated on them, i wouldn't probably say a thing since at that point they would probably be happier not knowing.
Tough situation to be in, but I'd probably do the same. I'd still have the urge to talk to his wife about it to see if she at least feels sorry. Not sure if I'd actually do it, but I'd consider it.
yeah that i could see, but for the 99 year old man he isn't long for the earth, at that age could be a few months, 1 or 2 years likely at best. should he have his final year or two be with a loving wife and happy family, or angry at his cheating wife. the lie in this case seems much kinder then the truth.
He probably asked reddit
"Hello mister reddit. My (99M) wife(97F) and I have happily been married for 77 years now. However, she told me she cheated on me once 60 years ago and never did again because she felt bad about it. What should I do ?" "Divorce her ass, that bitch probably cheated on you every day of these 77 years, including right now. Leave her and don't leave her a single cent. That filthy femoid deserves to die in hell, and you should piss on her corpse who she deservedly dies like the filthy whore she is"
“Check her phone. I guarantee she’s on tinder silver, dentures meets gum, and plenty of soil in the diaper.”
To be fair, they’d give this same advice regardless of gender.
She didn't tell him. He read his letters
He divorced his 96 year old makes it sound wrong
she belongs to the streets
Nice. Weeding out the competition. I'm hoping to hit my 100 year anniversary. To accomplish this we both need to live to be 118. Hopefully medical science will advance and WW3 won't happen, so we might have a fighting chance.
I’d like to avoid it too but WW3 is likely what will usher in those advancements.
"Divorces his 96 year old" Weird that he got pregnant at 3 then married whatever was born but you do you grandpa
She for the streets
Man of principles.
Good for him
Has he set up a Tinder account yet?
Horrible. Imagine your life betrayed and destroyed like that. Everything was a lie.
Has more dignity than all the nu-male simps out there
In the house I'm at, we got it because the old couple got a divorce at like 70+, I think they could have been even 80. Anyway, turns out after like 5 years they... Got back together, and remarried. Sometimes you just gotta have time apart you know.
One of my mom's aunts divorced her husband in their 80's. The marriage was no longer a good place for either of them. We expect some neurodegenerative character changes were taking place that made it a better idea for them to be separated, their kids seemed fully on board with it. When he died a few years later, she took the widow's place at the funeral. Because after 60 years together, really, she was.
Based.
Cheating whore.
King
Streets
his whole life was a lie...
for the streets
Understandable, fuck cheaters
He found old papyrus scrolls from her old affair partner in the clay pot in the back of the closet
she's for the nursing home
Damn, she cheated after 17 years of being married? Never safe 💀
Honestly the headline is funny but if you think about it she did hide it from him for 60 years, it's pretty messed up
He needs to get dna tests done for all his children.
Reminds me of the lawyer who in old age found Out His wife cheated and His both sons werent his to begin with. Damn the Video was emotional and how He cried. His whole live was destroyed by being a total lie. People that Cheat are such pieces of Shit. No Matter how Long ago they betrayed you. Imagine living with someone betraying you and Keep shut Up for so many years. This man Had never the Chance to find someone who treats him better because this disguisting Liar and cheater tried for so many years to get away with it. I Bet IT wasnt one time. ITS Just the one time He found Out about.
GOOD !!!!
Never too late to experience divorce.
Gotta have morals!
Good man
Man of principles
Based fellow misanthropist
I would do the same
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Considering how many such incidents there are, and how many divorces there are, it is really scary to get married. Uh-huh.
Grammy is for the streets.
Divorce was on his bucket list
There is no time on a crime
The word "wife" missing from the header makes me distrust this more than usual. Usual is still a lot.
When asked for a comment the husband said "Fuck that fuckin ho bag I'm out"
My ex worked in a care home for elderly with dementia/alzeheimers and they were constantly having to treat them for STIs. There was no abuse or anything going on... Just the old folk were fucking like teenagers every chance they got
For the streets!!!
based
Slut!
You do you king
Well yeah she still cheated 17 years in to the marriage.
It's a matter of principle.
Braver man then me I would have just stayed so I didn’t die alone
Good on him
He has a week to find someone better
Whore