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.

Sad story! - 方外居士

Yes and strangely, felt more real.

First love never lasts

That's a bold statement :-)

我个人感觉婚姻关键是不能撕破脸，一定不能打碎那一幅“玫瑰眼镜“。

Posthaste marriage counseling? :-)

Just got the joke :-)))

speaking of the truth ......

哈哈，反射弧有点长？

I thought I understood it, but now I wonder if I missed sth!

i do not think you miss anything. haha

就是觉得你在楼下帖子里说的那句话 sad story,

回复这个帖子也挺合适，就俏皮地拿来引用了一下。that's it.