Please ignore the crappy grammar, tense, run-on sentences, etc
and the excessive use of etc
Also this is generally speaking of heterosexual couples not homosexual. Some might apply to both.
Women see marriage differently and it is important to look as a male at the female perspective. She is 50% of the equation. Based on the statement Bind myself makes me think that you are male. In general females to do not think of marriage as binding. I am speaking generally here not implying that all women think this way, but a majority would agree. Marriage, to women, is a bonding of two individuals to become better as a couple. The marriage part is a bond that women feel hammers the nail home in their mind that this partner is going to commit their resources. Marriages between two is about sharing life AKA resources together. When I say resources I mean time, money, affection, child rearing, etc
Love may or may not be involved. Love is dynamic and is very complex to define. Everyone has different views. Finding someone that has similar views to love makes the relationship easier. Im going to leave love out of this for the most part even through females might argue that it is more important. In my and perhaps most males minds the view below would make more sense then the generic All you need is love romantic viewpoint.
I tend to agree as a male that my life would feel no different married or not; however, the other side, female side would likely disagree. Most females would feel a sense of panic or urgency to get married. This feeling females have is not entirely based on trends in America, which are swinging towards not getting married anyway, but the primal sense, in simple terms, I need a mate to reproduce with. Expanding on this, humans have a long gestation period (9 months), and females cannot fend for themselves during this period or could not in the early days of human existence. They required protection, support, sustenance, etc
to survive AKA resources. Also, once the child is born it takes nearly 9-10 years before the child is able to survive on his/her own (debatable, point is it takes a while). During this time the female requires additional support given mostly by males in terms of food, protection, etc
So without getting into relationships and whats expected once you are married, the main point is that marriage is likely to be more important to the female than the male. Your view might be leaning to never get married, but the female view likely leans more towards getting married on a primal level. So if you indicate or outright say to a potential mate I never want to get married it is likely the same as I never want kids which goes against the primal urge of most females. Females have the urge at some point in their life to reproduce and the step before that is to secure a mate with resources to support that process. That step is marriage.