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Rationalizing the Marriage Institution



Prompt: Book Review

Elizabeth Gilbert’s career rose with the popularity with her non-fiction work “Eat Pray Love. A book depicting her recovery journey post a messy divorce. Where she went on a trip to be able to come to terms with herself.

In this book the story of Liz and Love continues. The couple who have vowed not to get married, both traumatize by their last are forced to get married if they were to stay together. This book is filled with Liz’ rationalization on what to expect and what to be cautious of stepping into the bonds of legal matrimony. She had emerged herself in extensive researched about the institution of marriage, to try to convince herself that this time around it would be fine.

The research that she had done for herself are very well presented in this book, citing social scientists and exact publication, but it is also accompanied by the personal opinion of a modern woman. It spans from the concept of marriage in an isolated village in the mountains of Laos to the statistic about divorce rate in America in the 20th century. It shares the impact of marriages to women in her own family, how much a woman had to sacrifice to keep the marriage afloat, reasons why people do not ended up separating from their partners even after the worst of time, and why many thinks that homosexual partnership is the last hope for marriage institution.
It’s a refreshing look at the age old story of Commitment.

PS: if you want to read devi have a physical copy of the book

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