Soul Mates or a Marriage Mate

If anyone was to browse even the prayer requests posted on the Internet one can quickly see that prayers for a mate take a large part of the center stage as well as THEIR personal concern of having a good, well paid job, and one's health. Anyone involved in counseling knows that marriage complaints take the center stage there as well. Why? Many people are still personally really unhappy in life, single and married ones too. So what are the answers...