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/^t/A man is much more reluctant about marriage. Although he needs a woman to make him happy, he wants to have a cake and eat it. He wants to have a woman but at the same time he wants to be free, The woman he loves is not in the center of his interests, she is only a necessary addition to them. However as time goes, when he becomes socially mature and more responsible, certain hierarchy of values changes. He feels that he wants his own family, to support it and to be the head of it. He does not percieve marriage as a cage from which there is no escape, but more as a duty to be fulfiled. On the other hand, because he is not afraid to be called a bachelor (even with this label he'll be attractive to women), his decision about marriage is well thought and a woman he wants to marry may be sure that he really loves her (at least at the moment of making a vow ...).