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"Meant" to get married? Marriage is a social convention created to preserve class power, create political alliances, and increase economic security. It is a traditionally patriarchal practice symbolizing the passing of property (the bride) from her father to her husband. It is, by all accounts, the absolute antithesis of women's rights and endures today only because it has been so strongly ingrained into our collective consciousness. No one is meant to get married; they are just told that they must because that is what has been done for thousands of years.
In its defence, marriage has been recently romanticized and become much more gender equal than in the past. Marriage, like most other things though, is a choice. It is one that some people are not suited to, yet pursue anyway, and that some people choose not to pursue at all.
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"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions." - Albert Einstein
"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something." - Plato
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