Kicker - Advice for married couples

NICK EICHER, HOST: A married couple from Ohio has some advice for other married couples and with 79 years of experience being married, I’d say we would do well to listen up.

Hubert Malicote told television station WLWT, the love story starts in the teenage years in church.

HUBERT: Right in front of us was a pew full of young girls, and she looked around at me and smiled.

She would be June, now June Malicote. Hubert and June have three children, seven grandchildren, and eleven great-grandchildren. Their marriage has endured the Great Depression, Hubert’s service in World War II, and now, a pandemic. June says in all those years, the couple never had a single major fight.

JUNE: We’ve never had a quarrel. We’ve never had one quarrel.

Well, nothing too serious. And here’s why. Here’s the advice. Hubert believes in the power of a simple time-out. He says, “If there’s controversy, you might have to walk away for a couple minutes. Then you come back in and change the subject or you work it out.”

Advice that’s certainly stood the test of time: June turns 100 years old today and later this month, so does Hubert!

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