It is both better and worse.
It is both safe and dangerous, exciting and boring, exotic and boring. It can be your greatest dream and your worst nightmare.
I believe that marriage is neither will be good or bad, but that it is someone's choice whether to get married or not. There is nothing wrong with living a promiscuous lifestyle if it is what you really want to do. Everybody want to meet someone that will truly love and to spend my life with.