I thought about this a lot before I got married. In the end it wasn’t that I “had” to, or I should, I had always hated the idea that the world says I needed a wife and a dog and family and a white picket fence to be happy. I did it because I wanted to. Plus I believe if you ever intend to have children you should plan on settling down and providing a stable household.

Haven't dated seriously now for a few years, and never got married.

MGTOW whine? I see them pointing out double standards and problems of our system but not so much whining. The whole point of marriage is security for women and since it is so weighted in the court system men are choosing to let women work til death like we have had the privilege of doing all thru history. Even large numbers of men that aren't MGTOW are still following the same guidelines as MGTOW follow. Another generation or two and the pendulum swing will be going back to more traditional roles is my guess. Younger women are already leaving feminism and trying to speak out against it so it will change.

Getting married to be married, because you're supposed to be married, is foolish, and leads to the divorce rates that we see currently. However when you look at someone and you know that you don't want to be with anybody else, and it makes sense to you financially, and whatever else in your life, it's fine. But if you need a shiny piece of paper from a government to tell you how how you feel about someone you should probably avoid marriage