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.

所有跟帖： 

• Sad story! - 方外居士 -盈盈一笑間- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/26/2023 postreply 10:54:25

• Yes and strangely, felt more real. -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/26/2023 postreply 10:57:31

• Just got the joke :-))) -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/26/2023 postreply 13:13:14

• 哈哈，反射弧有點長？ -盈盈一笑間- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/26/2023 postreply 14:29:10

• I thought I understood it, but now I wonder if I missed sth! -方外居士- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/26/2023 postreply 16:59:01

• i do not think you miss anything. haha -盈盈一笑間- ♀ (326 bytes) () 10/26/2023 postreply 17:39:07

• First love never lasts -移花接木- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/26/2023 postreply 11:14:13

• That's a bold statement :-) -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/26/2023 postreply 11:23:16

• 我個人感覺婚姻關鍵是不能撕破臉，一定不能打碎那一幅“玫瑰眼鏡“。 -Oona- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/26/2023 postreply 11:40:57

• Posthaste marriage counseling? :-) -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/26/2023 postreply 12:17:08

• speaking of the truth ...... -顫音- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/26/2023 postreply 13:33:15

• It has taken almost one day to decide :-) -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/27/2023 postreply 11:58:20