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Computer Geeks As Loners? Data Says Otherwise
Computerworld reports on an analysis of census data to compare marriage rates for different professions. They found the rate for tech workers to be similar to that of other white-collar professions, and significantly higher than the rate for the general population. 62.1% of people with IT jobs are married, as are 56.5% of scientists and 65.5% of engineers. This compares well to people in legal professions (62.0%), medical jobs (61.3%), and finance (62.4%). 51% of the adult U.S. population was married as of the 2010 census. Tech workers do have a slightly higher percentage of people who have never married — 26.7% of IT workers and 31.9% of scientists — but they also have slightly fewer divorces.
Marriage is nothing more than a worthless title. All it does is bring few tax and legal benefits; nothing more. People do not need to marry, and yet many irrationally think it's this divine thing, even though they don't really pay attention to the benefits I just listed.
Furthermore, the people of which you speak are shallow. Never be in a relationship with someone shallow enough to care overmuch about someone's financial stability.