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This question was inspired by a conversation with Nicky M.
How long should you know someone before you marry him/her?
My parents met and married within two months of meeting each other. That is, MET AND MARRIED, not met and got engaged, or met and started dating; they met, and then two months later they were in the chapel getting hitched. They will celebrate their thirty-fourth anniversary this year.
Look how young they are! My dad is 22 and my mom is 21.
p.s. She was not pregnant.
Most relationship experts say you should know someone for four seasons before you get married; I guess some people act differently in the summer than they do in the winter. Or maybe you’ll find out that your beloved is a Christmas Scrooge, or s/he lights firecrackers in the toilet on the Fourth of July. Perhaps your sugarplum celebrates the start of autumn by skinning live cats or eating cave spiders. These things would be good to know BEFORE you get married.
When I think about my friends who have gotten married, are getting married, or are working on their second (or third!) marriages, I think, “Maybe you should have waited.”
But that might be hypocritical of me since, if I ever meet Bill S. Preston, Esquire, you would be seeing this in a hot second.
