How we stay together: 'I always know it's going to be all right in the end'

John and Marjorie Barrett work well as a team – essential for a couple who’ve spent many months together on cross-country tandem bike trips

Names: John and Marjorie Barrett
Years together: 42
Occupations: Retired

It was July 1978 and they were in a massage class with “hardly any clothes on” but it was John’s kind eyes that Marjorie Barnett noticed. She was 35 with three kids and had escaped a difficult first marriage, while he was 22 and newly arrived in Melbourne from Queensland. “I learnt from the first marriage that I know a nice man when I see one,” she says of her now-husband.

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