How did they get married if they never seemed to like on another?

I've gotta believe that his experience in WW2 was more traumatic than he let on.
Living through that war permanently changed everyone involved and some had a really hard time with varying aspects of their life afterward.
Emotions like empathy can get dulled after you've seen your comrades dropped by shrapnel, screaming in agony while they slowly bleed out, until they drift into silence among the deafening blasts of artillery and gunfire.

Also she didn't have to talk to him while he was out to war.

Sometimes people really like one another and rush to get married, but after a few years they lose the spark and don't know how to deal with it.

About as much as anyone else on the show, really.

You just did back then. Either get married or be considered a weirdo.

the problem is once you accept Abe being shitty father then Mona is even worst parent. She kept Homer to grow up with him so she could play her hippies rebelion fantasy. Homer is repeatedly shown to be kind man loving his family. His vices like glutony, alcoholism and low education can back track to growing up without mother figure. It is miracle he didnt turned out like Barny. Homer is a man who regulary sacriface himself for benefit of his family. Something Mona never did.

He was going to grow up without a mom either way. You know, the whole "going to jail" thing.

Ask your parents

>Sometimes he loves on a farm and other times it's a regular house.
I think they said they used to live on a farm until Homer scared all the cows away and because of this maybe they moved to the suburbs?

After his military service and having an affair with the carny woman who birthed Herb, he married Mona and they lived on the Simpson farm. After Homer was born and scared all the cows into producing sour milk, the bank foreclosed on the farm. So they moved to Springfield where Mona eventually took up the hippie lifestyle, and presumably lived in the same house when Homer was in high school, leading up to him marrying Marge. Eventually Abe sold the house to help Homer buy their house, Homer being so grateful he offered Abe to move in with them, but he was shipped off to the nursing home in a matter of weeks.

Yes and no. He's pretty much the stereotypical idea of a father of that era - a veteran who settled down to raise a family and had to endure the slog of suburban living while all of his principals and beliefs were challenged by modern counter-culture. He became bitter and took it out on his family, his surliness and probably alcoholic nature particularly targeting a son who was nearly opposite to him in most every way, as well as coddled in a way he never was.

Essentially you have a man who does right by his obligations financially, but not emotionally. And he's resented it for it for the rest of his days, but it becomes a real chicken or the egg thing. His own childhood, his war experiences, his ability or lack thereof to keep his farm and his family taken care of .... at some point his surly nature, understandable as it may be, is what he allows his people to know him for, and is his own choice.

If i remember correctly, Mona was the shitty parent. Abe was a, flawed, but normal husband and father. The guy had to raise alone a moronic son that was Homer.

WRONG! Homer's daddy abandoned the Old Simpson Farm because he couldn't grow anything on it.

They explicitly talk about the sour milk incident, it's only when Homer returns to the farm does Abe tell him that the soil sucks and he can't grow anything.

Great comment, concisely presented

People got married back then because that's just what you did. You found the girl you disliked the least at church and made it work.