I put scientific research, intellectual gratification, and such things, above the search for a wench to drag into my cave, in which to have my children, chase the rats away while I'm hunting, and feed me when I come back home, tired from a long day of scouting for non-commuting members of some species of symmetric group.

Have I made my position clear?

Again, your implicit assumption that love is a bare necessity. I contest.

I was being purposefully blunt and extreme, to drive my point in: it is not obvious that marriage is a Good Thing, as opposed to what Hezi constantly contends.

And, once more, the "in x years you will understand why I'm right" argument is really not working here.