APAD: Marry in haste, repent at leisure

Meaning: Get to know somebody very well before you marry them, or you may regret

it later.

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My main gripe with the proverb is that they may be good at hiding their true

color or they change and as a result it could be a long time before you get to

know them well. Maybe you never will. Here are two more takes on the subject.

 

Garrison Keillor once quipped

    "You want to be loved and you want to be loved. You met someone and you cozied

    up to each other. Within a year you saw the worst in them and they saw the

    worst in you."

and the audience knowningly cackled.

 

In the thriller "Medusa," the late mystery author Michael Dibdin had one

confirmed bachelor think the following:

    "Three weeks flirting, three months loving, three years squabbling, thirty

    years making do, and then the kids start again."

 

I've been wondering how much truth these observations carry, jokes and dramas

aside.