![]() And wasn’t looking for new ways to bring stress and debt into one’s life a kind of perversity But really, it wasn’t so much that I was against marriage, it just didn’t strike me as important or necessary, particularly given that common-law couples enjoyed roughly the same legal rights as married ones. My parents had already set the bar pretty low, but as I got older my awareness of marriage’s patriarchal roots also struck me as unsavory. It kills me,” she declares) which they root in a pact: “to never, ever, under any circumstances, marry.”Īs a product of the 1970s’ divorce epidemic, “sanctity” and “inviolability” were not words that came to mind when I thought about marriage. ![]() Eat, Pray, Love’s neat, fairytale ending had Gilbert hooking up Felipe, an older, divorced Brazilian gem trader with whom she finds a more sober, mature happiness (“I can no longer do infatuation. Her 2006 memoir, Eat, Pray, Love, about the travels she undertook when her marriage imploded, topped bestseller lists and, if that weren’t reward enough, Julia Roberts will play her in a movie version of the book to be released this summer. ![]() ![]() In Elizabeth Gilbert’s case, however, divorce-or at least her ruminations about it-has been a windfall. Marriage is grand, but divorce is a hundred grand, the saying goes. ![]()
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