>>712622967When you start playing the game and feel the benefits of being married it's literally a downgrade being single.
Jobs take married people into more consideration priority
Negotiating wages when you have a family or kid is easier
Harder to lay off a person that's married
Government financial benefits
When people say "a feeling of security", they mean you now have someone legally attached to you (and a physical spawn usually) making them split the bills.
I know a couple people who literally could not survive if they didn't have someone else lightening the financial load on where they lived.