Would be good for you guys past the Silver Anniversary to give any words of advice to the rest of us!
No one and nothing--not children, not mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, in-laws, job, hobby, etc.--takes preeminence over my wife. She is allowed to be criticized by others but it had better be done respectfully. Both the wife and husband must know that they have each others' backs. It's a kind of 'us against the world' philosophy.
"For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh; so then they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate."--Mark 10:7-9