Committed, by Elizabeth Gilbert

This is written by the same author of Eat, Pray, Love and all of the reviews I read on it were "do not read this book if you expect it to be anything like Eat, Pray, Love." Well personally, I think it sucks when you read another book by the same author and it is the same! I am thinking Jodi Picoult here! So I went into reading this with no expectations on way or another.

What I do believe is that the Universe was speaking to these two in a big way. It was telling them to wake up, stop being such babies, and get legally married and get over yourself. But the universe is sneaky, and really pulled a good one! I mean, seriously, Eat, Pray, Love was a great book, but if we were all as selfish as Elizabeth Gilbert, there would be no children in the world, there would be no families and we'd be wandering third world countries looking for ourselves.

Now, why would I call her selfish? Doesn't she have the same right as anyone else to find herself? I guess my problem with her is that it is almost borderline whining ... I mean, she wrote an entire book quaking at the thought of getting married to the man she loved most in the world. Because she got ONE divorce, she could not fathom entering into the institution ever again. She blamed how DIFFICULT her divorce was on her inability to be happy -- and yet, she wasn't happy inside the marriage either. What we have here is not a situation of MARRIAGE being the problem, but HER being the problem! She never actually figures this out either!

Anyway, I enjoyed it because she does a lot of research about marriage, and like anything, it's not what you perceive it to be. It does not have roots in christianity ... in fact, the powers that be would have liked to eradicate it altogether because it allows two people to be intimate, therefore rendering them free from the powers that be. Interesting stuff.

I would totally recommend reading it.