Why do people feel they need to get married? what is life like to stay single your whole life?

for sharing and caring you need to marry .

Dunno. Love brings pain. Being single doesn't necessarily avoid love though. Love can be te greatest happiness you feel in life, but that can lead to greater pain. However, these are still emotions and should be treated as such. I say be truthful with yourself and others and choose your own path. If you like someone and would like it to develop, there's nothing wrong with talking about it. If you like someone (esp if they like you) and you don't want it to develop, there's still nothing wrong with talking about it. Thus my statement about being truthful as well as chosing a path. I don't plan on ever getting married or even really being in a relationship. Perhaps it could still happen, but at this point I can't see myself allowing it. Anyways, enough of my rant. Hope this helps.

I for one don't feel that need. I'd be in my glory if I could build a shack in the mountains and live by myself. Unfortunately, I'd also probably be dead in very short order. That might not be so bad, but if that's my aim I'd definitely prefer a quicker route than starving to death in the middle of the woods. As for most people, it's a biological imperative. Humans are social creatures, and sexual creatures. "Marriage" isn't nearly as strong an imperative as simply "mating" (with or without the production of offspring). The marriage part only enters into it due to the evolution of culturally-derived societal norms, usually in the form of "religion".

Lonely. It may be fine for some people, but it's also a relief to know that there is someone else there you can depend on in times of trouble. It's hard when there isn't anyone to lean on, cry to, confess to, confide with, share with, love with....it's ultimately liberating and confining all in the same breath....if anyone cares about it.

I'm 20 so I wouldn't know but I have seen my parents get divorced so I am not getting married

The answer to your question is a book, "Men And Marriage" http://www.amazon.com/Men-Marriage-George-Gilder/dp/0882899465/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1328490918&sr=8-1 It's only about ten bux, and every page will make you think "Yeah! That's obvious! How come nobody ever told me that?"

because it is expected of us. staying single - equals freedom.- relationships breed conflict.

Most people don't want to be alone when they get old.

Being single = worse than being dead,