Yeah, before, you had the church, and expensive marriage counseling you probably had to pay for.
Here’s the thing: your crazy, whatever it is, will not go away when you get married, just because a person has now made a commitment to you. It’s all still right there, and so is theirs. And if it’s not a great match, you will start aggravating the shit out of each other. You have to find someone who can work with your crazy and vice versa, and even maybe help heal some of it, and that’s not real easy to find.
Friends will tell you what they think it will make you feel better to hear. Sometimes it does, whether or not they’re right. Sometimes it’s like, oh, holy shit, WHY did you just tell me that? It’s seriously better to tell them you’d rather not hear about him. Trust me.
To her it’s important because it’s about his character:
I’m confused about the guy I thought he was because I just find this so sleezy and generally degrading to women, and c) if clearly stripclubs don’t make him uncomfortable and he has no problem with strippers, how am I supposed to trust him when he goes?