[Yet_Again]

Here's my advice for boys: The hardest and most important decision you will ever make is choosing your wife.

Very true. Marry (or worse, have children) with the wrong woman and your life is guaranteed to be an expensive hell for up to 18 years (22 in some jurisdictions).

[grey_whiskers]

Here's my advice for boys: The hardest and most important decision you will ever make is choosing your wife.

Very true. Marry (or worse, have children) with the wrong woman and your life is guaranteed to be an expensive hell for up to 18 years (22 in some jurisdictions).

Real-life nuggets of wisdom from Siegried Farnon (James Herriot's boss in the All Creatures Great And Small books):

"Have a bloody good look at the mother first, lad." (Women tend to turn into their mother in middle age.)

"Marry in haste, repent at leisure."

Cheers!

[SuzyQue]

“...your life is guaranteed to be an expensive hell for up to 18 years...”

I’m assuming you’re talking about the kids? It ends up costing them much more than it does either of the parents.