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.
