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COUPLE: FAYE AND PAUL BLATT

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Children: Spencer, 9; Alana, 5.

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Back story: Met through BBYO when
she was 14 and he was 17. She thought
he was nice "for a long time" before
an eight-year courtship began, with
their first official outing on July 30,
1987. They got engaged 6 years later on
July 30 and married 2 years after that
on July 30. Paul never loses track of
anniversaries.
Three years older than Faye, the
two stayed in touch while he was off at
college by talking on the phone when
rates were cheap — after 11 p.m. Paul
moved to the west side of the state for
a job after graduation, and they did a lot of driving to see each other. They
also exchanged a lot of letters, which Paul kept. He keeps a prom photo in his
wallet.

Personalities: Faye, 38, is reserved while Paul, 41, is demonstrative.

Bumps in the road: When Paul was laid off a few years ago, Faye had to go
back to work full time as a preschool teacher. She had been home with the
children.
"Our roles shifted. We shifted with it. We've done a good job. Life gives you
a lot of stuff: We look at it and sit down and figure out what we're going to do,"
says Paul, who later became director of career and business services for JVS.

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Favorite place: The Paint Creek Trail in Rochester. The Blatts lived in
Rochester before they had children and got to love the bike path. Now they
take their children with them.

Advice to other married couples: "Everybody has stuff that other people
aren't going to like," Faye says.
"We deal with each other's stuff. But I think the biggest thing is, we
remember that we like each other," Paul says.
"We've always been good friends, best friends. We were friends before we
got married," Faye says.
"You've got to be you," says Paul. "I walk into the room at times and wonder
why she's with me. She's beautiful, isn't she?"

COUPLE: LISA SOBLE SIEGMANN AND TAL SIEGMANN

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Children: Adi, 10; Maya, 8; and Amit, 5

Back story: Lisa, a Cleveland native, was working in Columbus, Ohio, after
completing graduate school. Tal was a veterinary school student at Ohio State.
The community shaliach (an emissary from Israel) set up a dinner party so
they could meet.
"I was wearing a green silk shirt, black jeans and this cool belt. I thought
Tal was really cute, and he was really attentive," recalls Lisa, associate director
of JEFF and Informal Education at the Alliance for Jewish Education.
"I don't remember what I was wearing," says Tal, the director of youth pro-
grams at the Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit.
"He was wearing sandals," Lisa quips.
Lisa left for New Zealand a few weeks later to visit her sister for a month.
When she returned, Tal went to Israel for a month, leaving her with his dog
Luki, a Weimaraner. Lisa hated dogs but offered to dog-sit for a month.
"I was floored," Tal says. "It showed me who she is."

Interesting fact: Tal was born in Cleveland, Lisa's hometown, but he was
raised in Haifa.

Personalities: Lisa, 45, is a bit more temperamental than Tal, 42, who tends
to let the small things go. Early in their marriage, she recalled a time she got
so angry she jumped into the car and headed for Telegraph Road, the only
street she knew in Metro Detroit.
She drove up and down for hours. She now knows her way around but no
longer needs to literally drive the tension away.

Bumps in the road: After discovering she tested positive for a mutation of
the BRCA gene, which puts women at higher risk for breast and ovarian can-
cers, Lisa decided to have a preemptive double mastectomy and hysterectomy
in 2009.
"He was worried about how it would change me emotionally," Lisa says.
"Things are back to normal," Tal says.
"Crazy normal," Lisa injects.

Favorite place: Home, alone with the kids, or home, with friends over.

Stressors: Finances and reli-
gion. Tal is a furniture designer
and builder but had to ac-
knowledge it's difficult to make
a living at it. As for religion,
he's not spiritual while Lisa
is; she feels the chasm most
acutely from Rosh Hashanah
through Sukkot.

Advice for other married
couples: "You've got to be
ready for the punches. And
love each other. Keep the big
picture in mind, what you
saw in that person, why you
fell in love with them," says
Lisa. "We live in a society
where everything's good,
everything's now, every-
thing's 24/7. Marriage
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