It only seems longer. When a newly married couple smiles, everyone knows why. When a ten-year married couple smiles, everyone wonders why. A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
Love is blind but marriage is an eye-opener.
The most effective way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once. When a man is single, he's incomplete. When he's married, he's finished. By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy.