Let me say this. Go with this thought - after the wedding it will be just a downhill and all the bad things in your partner will become worse. If you can live with that - cool, go and marry your partner. But if you honestly will think about it and think like "it will be better" or "he/she will change/stay the same" or "after wedding it will be much better" - you are screwed. You cannot bet your life on "it will be only better". Those things dont work like that, I see way to many people divorcing because they made this bet.

I hate the way to young people marrying out of "it makes sense" while guy goes to strip clubs every weekend and girls dream about some sexy guy taking them for a date. Its sick and sounds like pathology. Its really, really wrong.

Mortgage/Taxes is not the reason to get married. Love is. If you call me romantic, I am sorry, but it seems you didnt really seen true love.

I think reasoning can convince us of anything. The sky is green, grass is blue, etc. People can make themselves believe anything, and sometimes if we get lonely/desperate enough, we rationalize someone's obvious incompatibilities away.

Well, that one identified as 'gut' is the expert on telling happiness from sadness apart. Why wouldn't it be the best for predicting them?

(But no, I don't completely agree. It's just that it's a good question to answer, because it's so obviously partially right.)

Many people are happy in relationships that make no logical sense whatsoever.

Or rather, the relationships do make sense, but they are unaware or unwilling to consciously recognise the reasons why.

On the other hand, feeling when you're happy or not is something anyone can do.