“Why would I bother to get married? It’s just a piece of paper.” My 20-year-old niece and I were sitting at my kitchen island, sipping Starbucks. I shrugged my shoulders, not giving her a response. In a way, I thought she had a point. Getting married doesn’t come with a lifetime warranty. It doesn’t give you a one-way ticket to lifelong bliss. It doesn’t provide you with an ironclad guarantee against the trials and tribulations relationships fall prey to. But the more I thought about her belief, the more it saddened me. Don’t get me wrong. Marriage isn’t for everyone,...