The divorce rate is down.

It's a fact many experts chalk up to couples not wanting to spend money on the costly process during an economic downturn.

Still, there's been over 150,000 divorces in the US this year so far.

So, who's even qualified to tell us how to make a marriage work?

It took a trip to Cub Run to find them.

92-year-old Ora Smith and 90-year-old husband Winford have been married since 1936, 72 years.

"I didn't go with boys," Ora says. "I didn't want them. He was sitting at the store, and I'd done left church, come down the road with his cousin."

"I seen them stop and look back at me, so I thought I better check things out," Winford remembers.

"Someone said he wanted to go with me," says Ora.

"I'd seen a lot of girls, went with a lot of girls. There was just something different," Winford adds.

"I said, 'Nah. He don't want to go with me'. I just passed him on," Ora laughs. "After while, we met."

"It's just, something happened, y'know?" Winford says. "I just can't explain it. Something happened."

"That was the first Sunday in June," Ora recalls. "We married in December."

Winford made his living clearing land for farmers in Hart County.

"Didn't have much money back then, but it didn't take much," he says. "She was always contented with what we had."

Five years into their marriage came World War II.

"I really remember too much," Winford remembers. "I didn't have to go. I had a brother killed in that war."

Through it all, Ora was always there.

"You really felt like, that's all you had," says Winford.

Winford and Ora say they've seen their share of good times too; the birth of their children and the day Winford was called into the ministry.

Winford says it's never been perfect.

"We've had one disagreement," he explains. "It started 72 years ago, and it hadn't ended yet."

He says they've made it work through faith and sacrifice.

"We were both ways poor," Winford explains. "Didn't have nothing, but we were just contented with what we had. Old saying is 'the family that preys together, stays together'. I can't say I lived a good life, but it was at the mercy of the Lord that we stayed together. I'm thankful for every day that we can be together."

Now, after 72 years, 867 months, or 26, 355 days, Winford says he knows why he's still in love with the girl he met on that old dirt road.

"For what she is, what she's been," Winford says. "I'll put it like this, I need her worse today than I did 72 years ago. 72 years ain't been long. It may seem like it's been a long time. Seems pretty fast."