Project Estimation

The thing I dislike most in software development is when they ask me to estimate how long a given project will take. I am about to start a new project so of course the first thing that is asked for is to do some research and try to figure out what the high level tasks of the project will be and estimate how long they will take. This seems like a reasonable thing to do as obviously if the company is going to invest a lot of money into a project they want to have sort of a guess how much the project is going to cost. Additionally if the scope of the work is outside the time frame in which they need the feature they can decide whether or not to limit the scope of the project or add resources to the project. So all in all I can see the need and the point of it, but I think I dislike it cause I am not very good at it.