Being married to us isn't exactly the contract of ownership that it is in some other cultures. A woman decides she likes a man's genes, proposes that they make a child, and he accepts if he wants to. Then they're dually responsible for raising that child, and him with keeping her pleased so that she doesn't leave him. The union is for benefit of genes rather than property.

[He's a little cynical on other cultural ideals of marriage, but still accepted being the best man at Dylan's wedding. He doubts that agreement counts for much, now. Dylan's fiancee is three hundred years in the past and- well... he knows what Rhade is, too.

He quickly changes his line of thought.] I like to debate. [And he's been told more than once that it's one of his more annoying habits.]