24 The world’s longest marriage lasted for 86 years.
The next time one of your friends tries to tell you that true love doesn’t exist, just tell them to look up Herbert and Zelmyra Fisher. According to the Guiness World Records, the late couple broke the record for the longest marriage in history back in February 2011, having been married at that point for a staggering 86 years and 290 days. As for the secret to their success, the couple once said that “there’s no secret to our marriage—we just did what was needed for each other and our family.”
