A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock

A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

I think we need more information. There's only so much money in the till. We've got to get it within budget.

I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead nature.

Imagine two strings with different properties joined end-to-end with each other. Chemically, one half of the newly formed string will repel the other half.