Just not normal

You start off as a young child your days filled with snack times and recess. Next you worry about making friends and fitting in... highschool comes you start partying messing around with the ladies and in between you try and get into a good college. college is a lot of drinking doing drugs and an occasional nap in class. You graduate get a job and make some money, learn responsibility and how tough the real world is. Once you master that you get a significant other and have lots of sex and fights with an occasional discussion on politics. After some time of make up sex and and discovering each others little annoying quirks you realize you can spend the rest of your life doing it over and over. So you get married blah blah blah and live happily ever after. The point is out of all my friends from college and work etc... Not to many marriages. Why is that? Why is it the people that surround me don't seem to believe in the sanctity of marriage. And I don't want to hear there are no good guys left or every time I meet a girl her ass seems to get larger by the minute. Bunch of bullshit, cuz lets be honest we are not getting any better looking so just settle already...
it would appear that we are quite the strange compilation of individuals. I do have a multiple of friends who have been with their significant others for a year or two or seven for that matter but none seem to be able to just say it "will you marry me?" what the hell kind of crap is that will you guys just get in the game and lead by example.
this post is specifically directed to the gentlemen that I have the significant wager with (you know who are, doger and jimmy (names changed for privacy)).