Oh T^2, you picked the wrong guy to tangle with on Latin definitions. Yes, at my liberal arts college I took three semesters of Latin (what a waste!)
Obligare is the present active infinitive from the root obligo. It can mean "to bind up, bandage, swathe". And one of the alternate definitions for the word is to set a boundary thru guilt.
My coffee maker was not working this morning, so you are going to have to connect the dots for me here.
Thank you both T^2 and AJ. I'll deal with my vision for the future in my next post.