Eh, I want to be married. My parents had a great marriage, and set a good example for me and my brother of how partners should treat one another.
The reason most marriages today fail is because people don't do a proper vetting of their potential life partner. They focus so much on the "love" aspect of marriage that they forget to focus on the "business" side of marriage. Marriage is much like a business - you're going into a partnership with someone for what will hopefully be a life-long project - so having the right business associate is essential. However, because the "love" aspect gets all the attention, you end up having marriages based on fleeting feelings instead of being based on the long-standing things that help a marriage stay together.
This is why noticing "red flags" and doing something about them early on is so important. Guys get so blinded by sex they forget to look at other things, like if the woman is nice to his family or strangers; if she can cook; if she had a job and earns her own money vs. always trying to spend his; her credit; if she has a history of violent acts or bad break ups; if she's the type to sit down and talk when disagreements arise vs. wanting to yell and blame him for everything; if their religious/political beliefs clash; how they feel about having children and their techniques of raising them... the list goes on and on.
Sometimes, a guy WILL see these things, and recognize his current women lacking in many areas he finds important. And yet, because he fears being alone his whole life, he ends up marrying her anyway, only to find out later that his initial instinct - to dump her - was the right one. And so, he divorces her - but by then, instead of being alone and with nothing owed to the woman, he's alone again but now has to give up half his stuff plus alimony, spousal support and child support.
Bottom line: if people weren't so afraid to be alone and were willing to have many, MANY talks with their partner prior to marrying them about how they would work best as a couple, there would be more marriages that would be able to stay together. If you're just marrying someone who's a good sex mate but not a good help mate, and doesn't have similar foundational beliefs, the marriage isn't going to last.
