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Many in favour of marriage see it as a way of forcing you to look past trivial "bumps in the road" (or whatever other cliche you favour), and to work on the relationship longer term.
All I can really say is that when I first married it was "the right thing to do" but my heart wasn't in it, and the choice of wife owed more to comfort and familiarity than love - we were not suited, but had been together since we were 17, and it seems like marriage was right for us.
After her infidelity and our divorce, I met and proposed to my current wife, and I have to say that in the proposal and in the preparation for the wedding i actually felt like I wanted to do it and was excited in a way I hadn't been before.
I have no way of knowing if this will be "forever", but at the moment (over three years in) I feel more committed to my marriage than I did the first time on day one.
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Overhead, the Albatross hangs motionless upon the air,
And deep beneath the rolling waves,
In labyrinths of Coral Caves,
The Echo of a distant time
Comes willowing across the sand;
And everthing is Green and Submarine
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