World’s longest-married couple reveals key to a lasting relationship: ‘We love each other’

A Miami husband and wife who recently attained the title of world’s longest-married couple say they managed that feat just by loving one another.

“We love each other,” Eleanor Gittens, 107, said to LongeviQuest when the website specializing on people who are in their second century of life asked what was the secret to her 83 years of marriage to her husband, Lyle.

Meanwhile, 108-year-old Lyle Gittens’s reply to that question was: “I love my wife.”

The Gittenses’ heartwarming remarks about each other came as LongeviQuest’s global validation commission used the pair’s 1942 marriage certificate, US census entries and cross-referenced archival material spanning decades to confirm they are the longest-married couple in the world.

A 4 November news article from LongeviQuest said the Gitt