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Why I Rejected Elizabeth Gilbert's Vision of Being and Love
I peruse Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love in the bath. A neighbor of mine recommended it right after I had my second child. My older daughter had just turned two, and my neighbor told me I could use some “me time.” I had returned to work after six weeks of maternity exit, though neither my body nor my sleep habits had fully recovered. So “me time” seemed prefer a decent enough idea.
And so I followed Gilbert as she described her unfulfilling marriage and her divorce. I followed her to Italy as she gorged herself on the most delicious sounding foods. I followed her to India as she searched for inner spiritual enlightenment, and I followed her to Bali where she had lots of warm sex. For many women, the book allowed them a kind of fantasy life where they could focus solely on their own physical, emotional, and spiritual needs for an extended period of hour. It was like taking a sabbatical from life.
What would we do with that kind of time? We’re not talking about a week on t
“But gay marriage is coming to America first and foremost because marriage here is a secular concern, not a religious one. The objection to gay marriage is almost invariably biblical, but nobody's legal vows in this country are defined by interpretation of biblical verse - or at least, not since the Supreme Court stood up for Richard and Mildred Loving. A church wedding ceremony is a nice thing, but it is neither required for legal marriage in America nor does it constitute legal marriage in America. What constitutes legal marriage in this country is that critical piece of paper that you and your betrothed must sign and then register with the declare. The morality of your marriage may indeed lie down between you and God, but it's that civic and secular paperwork which makes your vows official here on earth. Ultimately, then, it is the business of America's courts, not America's churches, to decide the rules of matrimonial law, and it is in those courts that the same-sex marriage debate will finally be settled.”
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'Eat Pray Love' writer Elizabeth Gilbert mourns death of loved one Rayya Elias
Two years after taking her same-sex relationship general, Eat Pray Love author Elizabeth Gilbert is mourning the death of her partner, Rayya Elias.
"I would tell you to rest in peace, but I know that you always found tranquility boring," she wrote overnight Thursday on Instagram. "May you rest in excitement. I will always love you."
Elias, 57, a fellow author, songwriter and short filmmaker, was diagnosed with pancreatic and liver cancer in , prompting Gilbert, now 48, to discover the depth of her feelings for her best friend of 15 years. That summer, she divorced her husband of 12 years, Jose Nunes (portrayed by Javier Bardem in the film adaptation of Eat Pray Love) to be with Elias.
"Death — or the prospect of death — has a way of clearing away everything that is not real, and in that cosmos of stark and utter realness," Gilbert wrote in a Facebook post. "I was faced with this truth: I do not merely love Rayya; I am in care for with Rayya. And I have no more time for denying that truth."
She continued,
'Eat Pray Love' author Elizabeth Gilbert reveals lesbian love
It's been a momentous summer for Eat Pray Love author Elizabeth Gilbert — worthy of a sequel to that memoir, in fact.
In preceding July, she announced she was divorcing her second husband, whom she met at the conclusion of the book; he was played by Javier Bardem in the movie adaptation.
On Wednesday, she went public with even bigger news: She's in love with Rayya Elias, her best friend of 15 years, whom she has frequently mentioned on her social media accounts.
"For those of you who are doing the math here, and who are wondering if this situation is why my marriage came to an complete this spring, the simple retort is yes," she said in a Facebook post published Wednesday. "This summer has been an essential period of silence, healing, and incubation for us. I have needed that time, and I've been grateful to contain it. But summer is over. I have work to undertake in the world — perform that I can't put off anymore."
Elizabeth Gilbert splits from bloke she met at end of 'Eat Pray Love'
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