I've always felt that I would get married if the right man came into my life, but I wouldn't settle for marrying the wrong man just for the sake of being married. I dated a few "wrong men" and I know I'd have been miserable, and probably divorced, if I'd married any of them.
Then the right man came into my life.
These days, there's no stigma associated with being an unmarried woman. You don't have to either get married or become an "old maid" and have people looking at you and going "poor thing" - you can have a very full and rewarding life without ever taking a trip down the aisle.