Read Part 1 here and Part 2 here and Part 3 here and Part 4 here and Part 5 here and Part 6 here.
Why aren't you married/Why don't you want to be married?
One problem with these questions is that they are asked as though marriage is the default. It isn't. One must do a series of voluntary things in order to be married. If someone doesn't do those things, they won't be married. Once you realize that the default is being unmarried, deflecting these questions becomes easier.
Yet again, there are several ways of answering this, depending on your situation and your interactions with the person who is asking.
A) I was born without a wife.
B) Marriage is voluntary. I am naturally free. The real question is "Why should I get married?"
C) I don't have compelling reasons to marry.
D) I don't voluntarily sign terrible state contracts.
E) I haven't found a compatible woman.
F) I don't want to inflict myself on someone.
G) I have too much respect for the independence of women than to do that.
H) I refuse to perpetuate such misogynistic patriarchy.
I) Just lucky, I guess.
J) (Turn it around.) Why did you marry?/Why are you marrying? (They will usually cite something they could have had without a terrible state contract. It's up to you if you want to point that out or not.)
Most men don't have a good reason to marry. When men stop accepting without question that marriage is a must and a if not married, a man must seek to get married, and flip things around to place the burden where it belongs, which is on the marriage seller, most of the marriage marketing campaign crumbles.
Part 8
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