There are many, many people who will say they benefited from marriage in a tangible way. From having someone in their life (physically and mentally) to love and walk with and raise kids with and support them. Even many unhappy people are still happier than they would have been with no one, and with no kids. Marriage is good unless you're set to be a monk, which is good too. Don't get down on marriage. This guy's "women like to be dominated stuff" is off however. Though it is true women are generally followers and are commanded to be submissive. I think most of the problems you see with marriage, why you think it isn't beneficial, or why others don't has to do with the marriages you're looking at being non-Christian (and this goes for most of the self-proclaimed "Christians" too). Marriage and life without God at the centre is empty in the end and isn't beneficial. Dunno who you think the true enemy is, but it's satanism (aka Marxism), that anti-god, there is no God type stuff and that's what's seeped into western countries and the institution of marriage and makes them seem this way.