It's so wonderful that you have that family history. *)

I have it too, on my mother's side, but it seems to have skipped a generation; my grandparents had a fabulous fifty-year romance (and that short only because of my grandmother's untimely death) and I fully expect to have the same with sinboy. My mother, on the other hand, has spent much of her life alternately claiming she wants no such thing and hunting desperately for it. I keep hoping she finds some semblance of it soon, while she still has enough time and energy to really revel in it.