marriage and free will

When I hear people talking about marriage, they talk as if there is no other choice or marriage is part of your destiny and you can't do anything about it. Consider my conversation with this guy:

Me: I am not going to marry EVER!
The guy: You are just saying this, but everybody has to get married.
Me: why?
The guy: why means? you will be doomed if you stay single.

Sounds more like some religious ritual. A lot of children grow up with idea that marriage is necessary part of life and you need to do it without even thinking or asking question about it. And as they grow up they see that in their community, at certain age people get married. When they themselves reach that age marriage seems inevitable, the best they could think of, is to defer it for some years. Marriage take priority over everything- career, education, fun.

And I don't know what's wrong with parents, marriage of their children is like a very big loan which they have to pay and otherwise they will lose everything.So as soon as their child reach certain age they keep nagging him for marriage like a loan recovery agent.Then there are other parents who think that marriage is a wonder pill for all kind of problem-

child is irresponsible: get him married, marriage will bring him sense of responsibility.
child is shy: get him married, he will learn to be social
child is promiscuous : get him married, if he has wife, he won't look elsewhere.
child has any bad habit: get him married, wife will look after him.
child is homosexual: get him married because homosexuality is a disease only cured tied to person of opposite sex


So all I can say is marriage is a institution which is forced on people by child brain washing, emotional blackmailing and fear of moral, social and cultural boycott. This is shameful.

The Idea

I first decided that I will never get married when I was 15 or 16( I was in class X then), and at that age when you people that you don't ever want to get married, people laugh at you, because they think that you have no freaking idea what you are talking about and you will think differently when you grow up. I also thought (and feared) the same, but I am 25 now,all grown up and still firm(at my decision). In fact now I spent lot of time discussing married people and unmarried people who are pro-marriage about advantages/disadvantages of marriage. It's kinda fun thing to do, because people have such a silly excuses for getting married.
So my idea here is to discuss about my opinion on "why one should not get married", my experiences as bachelor and counter arguing various arguments in favour of marriage. Sound's fun, isn't it?