[Lucid:]

Heh. It really depends on how seriously you take getting married. When we were going to marriage counseling, he mentioned that nobody ever told him that marriage would be hard. I mean, seriously? I thought that it was kkindof a given that you have to make sacrifices and compromises in a marriage. So yeah, you're right. A lot of people get married without wanting/realizing the commitment it requires.

The unfortunate thing is that most of the issues we had in our marriage were things that we probably wouldn't have been able to discover just by dating for longer. When I think back to the time when we were dating, it feels like he was a completely opposite person than the one he is now. I don't know if there's anything I could have done better, but it was a pretty unhappy marriage for the majority of the 3 years.

Ugh, I don't mean to vent about it or anything. Just mean to say that yeah, sometimes people get married when they shouldn't, but if you take it seriously, marriage is nothing to be scared of. Plenty of marriages are really awesome.