Restoring Rapport

I was standing in the Ohio University Southern Office at the start of the 2019-2020 Spring Semester. In order to jump through one of the three million hoops required to enter Teacher Candidacy, I had to get a background check. As I stood waiting for the attendant to put my name through the system, I couldn't help but overhear a conversation between three students I'd never met. I listened. Their conversation revolved around the question of marriage and whether or not each of them were considering matrimony in the future. By the end of the (rather short) conversation, each of them had arrived at the same conclusion: marriage wasn't for them. Since this is an issue I'd written about in the past, I decided to seize the opportunity to participate in a spontaneous survey from the sidelines. I silently listened to the reasoning of each. The general consensus between the three was that marriage was a form of  bondage  or  limitation . After all, wouldn't it be muc