My present gaming group formed in ~1981, with new players joining and others leaving at various times in the 1980's; its membership crystallised into a "core" around 1987, with five of us still the same who played together in 1981.
Of those people, one's dead, one's quit gaming, and I'm presently married to the one who gave birth to my son in 1994; my boy's now old enough to game with us sometimes. The others remain good friends and come round to my house from all over the country ten or twelve times a year for a full Sunday's RPG'ing. We play no matter what happens... the game didn't stop even the night that one of my players was repossessed, he was busily fighting a lich while his landlord threw his furniture into the street.
We've been through all sorts of things - not just the traditional issues of health, bankruptcy, divorce. I employed one of my players for a while when he needed a job; another player married a millionairess and another's recently announced a decision to have a sex change.
Gaming conquered all, and I think we'll keep gaming together now until the last one drops dead.
