It depends on your personality.
This idea that there is "one" ideal way to live life has probably made a lot of people miserable.
My personality is that I like to work alone. Before I retired my last job was setting up stat labs, setting up all the analyzers,tests, interfacing and validating with the information systems before they went live and the crew came in to take over the lab. I basically walked into empty clinics and hospitals before they went live and worked 18hr days 7 days a week. Often sleeping on the floor and wouldn't see anyone for weeks on end except perhaps the CEO who would come in to check on how I was getting along. I loved doing that, but eventually those jobs dried up and I left the profession. Give me a job that is nothing but endless problem solving, a phone number so I can talk to engineers, and leave me in a room and I'll be perfectly happy not to talk to anyone except over the phone for years.
This was my personality from the time I was a small child, my parents told me I just didn't care to talk to people I was off building stuff and doing my own thing. So marriage isn't something I've ever wanted, I want something to accomplish, I can't deal with the noise of a family and waste of time of wiping someones ass or cleaning up their problems.
I can honestly say I'm more lonely when I'm in a relationship, if I'm around family I can't wait until they leave so I can get back to something more productive. For me trying to please the female mind long term is an exercise in futility, it's program with too many bugs and sometimes it's best just to have some quick fun and get out of there before it blows up in your face.