What is unknown is not forever. Smart money in blighty says that unless you are extremely lucky, you will never find that perfect partner. The one who tolerates you and vice versa because it is love, the one who won't rip you off with divorce settlements of the 'omfg is that for real' variety. There's a distinctively western culture woman who appears to bear grudges, possess the most deep running spite, where the messy divorce and marriage end was premeditated at the start.
You can talk about the engineering of the mind but you cannot teach the system in this country how to compromise, particularly in the way things have seemingly evolved. Whilst addressing a very good point Pancho, there are plenty of perfectly normal legitimate reasons for us blokes to be single in the UK and an entire volume of bad marriage examples to reinforce them. I'm not saying though that every marriage is a disaster waiting to happen (however true that may be), but that there are simply more reasons not to bother hooking up with any sincerity to your standard English born, raised and Ok magazine influenced girl/woman.