A nice write-up I gleaned from somewhere:

DON'T GET MARRIED IF....
If you’re not ready to delay gratification when
your are angry. To hold your tongue, lower
your voice and sometimes wait till the
appropriate time, day or even month before
you can deal with an issue thoroughly…. don’t
get married. Immaturity is the inability to
delay gratification. Marriage is for the
mature.
If you’re not ready to leave center stage and
allow someone else to become your focus,
your study, your muses… don’t get married.
Selfish people make very bad spouses. In
marriage you don’t lose yourself but your
heart has to be big enough to gain someone
else. And soon, with God’s blessing: little,
crying, diaper soiling, demanding little ones
are coming!
If you are not ready, to stand up and calmly
deal with meddling in laws as a united front:
The opinionated sister, the insensitive uncle,
the domineering father, the manner less
brother, the nosy aunt….. don’t get married.
Boundaries do not exist automatically, they
must be created. A good spouse is committed
to respectfully stand up for and protect their
marriage from meddling relatives. Don’t
abandon your spouse to your relatives. It’s
betrayal.
If you are not ready to pay bills…. don’t get
married. Love does not pay bills. Kenya power
will not give a waiver because your love is O
so strong and your gazes at each other, O so
romantic.
If you are not ready to let go of your opposite
sex “best friends” and invest that into your
spouse. To like, to laugh, to play, to be silly
and to enjoy life with them, above anyone
else… don’t get married. Affairs happen
because people did not marry their best
friends. Someone else holds their heart.
Someone else gets them better. Someone
else inspires them more. Marry your best
friend and cultivate your friendship so that
you remain best friends.
If you are not ready to stop competing with
the Joneses…. don’t get married. Let the
Joneses buy their yatch when you are still
walking, and enjoy the walk. Your journeys
are different. They may have to cross the
oceans but you may be going through the
road route. A boat might not do you any good
on your journey. You must be ready to pace
yourselves: stop competing, stop spending
your future before you get there, stop the
debt, stop trying to impress people. You must
be able to be content. To enjoy your journey
without deciding your happiness simply by
measuring your progress against other
people.
If you are not ready to be an open book. To
tell the whole story of your past, deal with the
memories, expose the failures and risk
rejection…. don’t get married. It is fraud to
have someone sign off their life to you
without the full details. The past is a touchy
and demanding friend. It always shows up in
the marriage. It doesn’t enjoy being ignored
and the more you snob, the bolder it becomes
and the more tantrums it throws. It will mess
up the “neat” and “all together lovely” image
that you are struggling to maintain.
If you are not ready to let go of your
philandering and wild oats farming…. don’t
get married. Don’t take somebody’s son or
daughter and subject them to your germs,
your indiscretions and your chips fungaz. It
never ends well. It’s romanticized in the
movies, it’s being fronted as the only
“realistic” way to stay married and keep the
fire burning. But truth be told, the only thing
that the fire will burn will be you, your spouse
and your children. That family will burn for
generations in bitterness, disease, fear,
failure, hatred, broken hearts, broken dreams
and conniving.
Finally, if you are not ready to let go of the
adrenalin rush of a risque life and to settle
down…. don’t get married. The great
Colombus [who we were told "discovered"
America, Have you ever wondered if the
Native Indians who were in it, knew that it
existed :-) ] had a diary that was long sought
for. People wanted to read about the wild
journeys, the sea tempest, the reckless
pirates they fought, the death and the danger
they must have encountered. When it was
found, there was great disappointment.
Majority of the pages simply had 5 words:
“This day, we sailed on.”.
Marriage, like life in general, has many “we
sail on” days. You have to learn to find the
thrill in the normal everydayness of it. If you
depend on wild romance, all night sex [ha],
romantic cruises, wild parties, compulsive
moves across continents, tempestuous fights
and make up sessions to be happy, you may
be disappointed. You have to learn to thrill in
gentle smiles, loving hugs, knowing looks,
cozy moments, shared chores, cute babies,
everyday work, dreaming together, praying
together and simply living together. If these
things are not thrilling, exciting and
satisfying, you will look for a way out. The
“boom twaff” moments are still there, but
they are normally punctuations to the
usualness of living. They cannot be your
reason for getting married. They are
unsustainable on an everyday basis. The one
you choose must be thrilling to you even in
the most mundane of moments.
I pray this helps someone. Remember singles,
YOU HAVE THE PRIVILEGE OF CHOICE. Never
let anyone pressure you into marriage. You
are either ready or you’re not: You decide!.
But please don’t marry somebody and then
punish them to live with your childish ways for
the rest of their lives :-) . A childish baby is
cute but a childish adult is extremely
frustrating.
Marriage is for the mature and in many ways,
we the married, are still being confronted
with the demand to grow up day by day. If
you are not ready for that demand, don’t get
married!!!!

Trust me a lot of people will remain single their whole life

Lord_Reed: A nice write-up I gleaned from somewhere:

DON'T GET MARRIED IF....
If you’re not ready to delay gratification when
your are angry. To hold your tongue, lower
your voice and sometimes wait till the
appropriate time, day or even month before
you can deal with an issue thoroughly…. don’t
get married. Immaturity is the inability to
delay gratification. Marriage is for the
mature.
If you’re not ready to leave center stage and
allow someone else to become your focus,
your study, your muses… don’t get married.
Selfish people make very bad spouses. In
marriage you don’t lose yourself but your
heart has to be big enough to gain someone
else. And soon, with God’s blessing: little,
crying, diaper soiling, demanding little ones
are coming!
If you are not ready, to stand up and calmly
deal with meddling in laws as a united front:
The opinionated sister, the insensitive uncle,
the domineering father, the manner less
brother, the nosy aunt….. don’t get married.
Boundaries do not exist automatically, they
must be created. A good spouse is committed
to respectfully stand up for and protect their
marriage from meddling relatives. Don’t
abandon your spouse to your relatives. It’s
betrayal.
If you are not ready to pay bills…. don’t get
married. Love does not pay bills. Kenya power
will not give a waiver because your love is O
so strong and your gazes at each other, O so
romantic.
If you are not ready to let go of your opposite
sex “best friends” and invest that into your
spouse. To like, to laugh, to play, to be silly
and to enjoy life with them, above anyone
else… don’t get married. Affairs happen
because people did not marry their best
friends. Someone else holds their heart.
Someone else gets them better. Someone
else inspires them more. Marry your best
friend and cultivate your friendship so that
you remain best friends.
If you are not ready to stop competing with
the Joneses…. don’t get married. Let the
Joneses buy their yatch when you are still
walking, and enjoy the walk. Your journeys
are different. They may have to cross the
oceans but you may be going through the
road route. A boat might not do you any good
on your journey. You must be ready to pace
yourselves: stop competing, stop spending
your future before you get there, stop the
debt, stop trying to impress people. You must
be able to be content. To enjoy your journey
without deciding your happiness simply by
measuring your progress against other
people.
If you are not ready to be an open book. To
tell the whole story of your past, deal with the
memories, expose the failures and risk
rejection…. don’t get married. It is fraud to
have someone sign off their life to you
without the full details. The past is a touchy
and demanding friend. It always shows up in
the marriage. It doesn’t enjoy being ignored
and the more you snob, the bolder it becomes
and the more tantrums it throws. It will mess
up the “neat” and “all together lovely” image
that you are struggling to maintain.
If you are not ready to let go of your
philandering and wild oats farming…. don’t
get married. Don’t take somebody’s son or
daughter and subject them to your germs,
your indiscretions and your chips fungaz. It
never ends well. It’s romanticized in the
movies, it’s being fronted as the only
“realistic” way to stay married and keep the
fire burning. But truth be told, the only thing
that the fire will burn will be you, your spouse
and your children. That family will burn for
generations in bitterness, disease, fear,
failure, hatred, broken hearts, broken dreams
and conniving.
Finally, if you are not ready to let go of the
adrenalin rush of a risque life and to settle
down…. don’t get married. The great
Colombus [who we were told "discovered"
America, Have you ever wondered if the
Native Indians who were in it, knew that it
existed :-) ] had a diary that was long sought
for. People wanted to read about the wild
journeys, the sea tempest, the reckless
pirates they fought, the death and the danger
they must have encountered. When it was
found, there was great disappointment.
Majority of the pages simply had 5 words:
“This day, we sailed on.”.
Marriage, like life in general, has many “we
sail on” days. You have to learn to find the
thrill in the normal everydayness of it. If you
depend on wild romance, all night sex [ha],
romantic cruises, wild parties, compulsive
moves across continents, tempestuous fights
and make up sessions to be happy, you may
be disappointed. You have to learn to thrill in
gentle smiles, loving hugs, knowing looks,
cozy moments, shared chores, cute babies,
everyday work, dreaming together, praying
together and simply living together. If these
things are not thrilling, exciting and
satisfying, you will look for a way out. The
“boom twaff” moments are still there, but
they are normally punctuations to the
usualness of living. They cannot be your
reason for getting married. They are
unsustainable on an everyday basis. The one
you choose must be thrilling to you even in
the most mundane of moments.
I pray this helps someone. Remember singles,
YOU HAVE THE PRIVILEGE OF CHOICE. Never
let anyone pressure you into marriage. You
are either ready or you’re not: You decide!.
But please don’t marry somebody and then
punish them to live with your childish ways for
the rest of their lives :-) . A childish baby is
cute but a childish adult is extremely
frustrating.
Marriage is for the mature and in many ways,
we the married, are still being confronted
with the demand to grow up day by day. If
you are not ready for that demand, don’t get
married!!!!

Me love lord_reed.so my dear best friend,don't make me marry d wrong person k?