
The Conversation | Paper Trident/Shuttertsock
Marriage turned out to be a weird topic of conversation. On the one hand, it was a theme so hackneyed as to provoke eyerolls and yawns. On the other, its mere mention appeared to be triggering. While everybody implied they knew what they thought about it, most sounded like they hadn’t really thought about it. Many who had committed themselves to marriage appeared to have wandered into their married lives more or less absent-mindedly.