Dan, she was behind you with a rolling pin while you wrote that on a visit to GITMO, right?
For Chunks it has worked out well.
I have seen a dozen guys get married to a girl they did not date for that long (other than myself) and they run the gamut from:
Clean divorce- no kids
Clean divorce- good custody agreement and reasonable child support, no alimony
NASTY divorce- paying out the ass between CS and Alimony. Never can see his kids
NASTY divorce- paying out ass, while she lives in luxury with her new boy toy. No kids (no, not me)
3 or 4 that are fucking miserable but staying for either the kids or fear of getting the FL or CA court Phallus of Justice rammed up their ass with no lube (read as insane alimony)
1 that seems genuinely happy without kids
1 that seems happy in public, but knowing him is a shell of his former self
2 that are married, kids and it's going great.
That's out of 12 guys I know who married girls they met in FS or prior and knew less that a year when they got married.
3 or 4 that are happy out of 12. I don't like those odds. The numbers seem a bit better for friends who dated 12 months or longer before throwing their life away, but it's still not a gaurantee.
Step away from your hormones and fairtytale ideals. Unless you were a deploying reservist (and by that I don't mean 2 weeks to Montana for training) and went to one of our fine exotic shitholes for 4-6 months or longer, you probably don't "get it" as much as you think you do.
Casey "I was not born this bitter" Bates