So well said. It is a scam really. Marriage is totally patriarchal institution with total enslavement of woman and only asking her to compromise or change her name or leave her former identity, parents, name, hometown etc and adjust and compromise or tolerate or call her parayi for natal family aftet marriage. While man is never asked to do anything nor loses anything. Man only gains additionally in marriage and easily neglects home and does no emotional labour either while woman is told to do everything from handling home, in laws, guests, kids to working around whims and tempers of husband.
I wonder what contribution or sacrifice a man makes in marriage?
Thanks to marriage, birth of girl child is seen as burden or she is seen as paraya dhan or is brainwashed and bullied since childhood to adjust or not have any goals, dreams or ambitions or voice of own and only learn household skills and get married soon and never come back to parents nor share 'ghar ki baat' with parents.
It is also patriarchal pressure and trick to stigmatise divorce or being single by choice, to pressurise women into marriage or else isolate her socially.
I wish more singles were encouraged since there are indeed lot of people who never wanted to get married at all and had other ambitions in life. Or atleast excessive hyping or marketing of marriage was stopped.
Families also need to be redefined. Why only husband and wife are family? Siblings together, cousins, adopted kids or like minded friends and people living together or in same building, widow, widower, nephews, nieces, pets etc are all family. Who needs only sexual or biological relations to define a family?

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