A couple with a 40 year-age gap have explained how they defied the odds – and a serious health scare – to reach their 17th anniversary together.
Edna Martin, 87, and Simon Martin, 47, met when she was 68 and he was 28, and quickly fell in love despite their difference in age.
In fact, the couple still enjoy a healthy romantic life, and have admitted to cheeky bum pinching and kissing in the street.
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And, having just celebrated their 17th wedding anniversary, the couple had a surprising response when they were asked if they were well on ITV’s This Morning programme.
“I’m still in one piece, it’s a miracle,” Simon replied, before the pair explained that he had a kidney transplant nearly six years ago after an illness left him seriously ill.
“It didn’t look like it might be [fine] at first, because I had to go on dialysis and I didn’t realise at the time that I was dying, I was going downhill fast.”
Edna picked up the story, adding: “My son and I could see that he wasn’t going to make Christmas, and that was Easter.
“But he seemed blissfully unaware of all that, so we left him unaware of that and he fell asleep more and more, he was drowning.”
Thankfully, the 87 year-old then recalled how one night she had been upstairs watching murder mystery films when she had finally received the good news that the hospital had found a kidney donor match for her beloved partner.
Having overcome the dramatic scenario, the defiant couple reflected on their journey together and suggested that they’d done better than a lot of marriages.
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“At the time I believe the British average was 28 months, so if you count that against 17 years, we’re pretty damned good,” Edna acknowledged.
Presenting the show, Rylan Clark was clearly impressed with the elderly ladies’ attitude, and even joked about breaking up the relationship to steal her for himself.
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