You have to wonder about guys who would prefer a bad marriage to being single. HELLO???
The headline is very poorly chosen. It reminds me of those SAT reading comprehension tests where they ask you what the article should be called.
It's not so much that men prefer being solo over a bad marriage, but that their primary *aversion* to marriage is fear of it going bad.
I mean, you could also write an article titled "people prefer to work for someone else than own a business that goes bad", and that title would be meaningless, but I bet fear of failure IS a driving factor in why people don't work for themselves.
A study of bachelors who revealed this nugget tends to overturn the prevailing wisdom that it is commitment they're afraid of - not failure.