Marrying your high-school sweetheart was nothing uncommon back in the 70s.

But being in the spotlight for almost fifty years, and suffering losses within the marriage, can definitely ruin it if it’s not based on true and unconditional love.
Thankfully, George Strait and his wife Norma have never stopped loving each other, whether they were facing their happiest moments or living their nightmares.

George and Norma are about the same age, and they come from the same town, which means they got to see each other a lot when they were still children, but they kind of never thought there could be something romantic between them.
As the King of Country Music once told Houston radio station 100.3 The Bull, they once went out on a date, and then they didn’t see each other for quite some time.

At some point, he caught himself thinking that he might be losing something important, so he decided to try to win Norma’s heart again.
In fact, the famous singer has admitted that she was the first woman he ever loved.
The couple eloped in Mexico in 1971, and they got married in a small church ceremony in Pearsall, Texas, before he enlisted in the U.S. Army and shipped off to Hawaii.