What is the difference between getting cold feet and having serious doubts prior to marriage?
Cold feet is fear of the unknown. People experience cold feet because they do not know their partner well enough and cannot imagine what it will be like to be married to them. Serious doubts is just the opposite: it is fear of the known. People experiencing serious doubts don’t fear their partner because they don’t know them well enough. They fear their partner because they do. • What results from the survey of over 1,000 people intrigued you the most? The fact that 79% of respondents are women. That could be because women feel more compelled to take a survey about a past relationship. But it could be something more. Still today, when it comes to proposing, men do most of the asking. Theoretically, a man does not ask a woman to marry him unless he has thought it through. At the moment he asks, the woman may not want to marry him, but may feel compelled to say yes for any number of reasons. • What is Sudden Marriage Syndrome? It is a term I coined to explain an impulsive and inexplicabl
