Hi, I've been super busy Since May launching our new book,"Make Love Whenever Possible When Married With Children" and our companion website, makelovewheneverpossible.com. But now that we've got our business facebook,Twitter account and new taboo blogs rolling--I think I can get back to writing on my Reading Like Oprah blog too!
So when I saw the movie, " The Kids Are All Right" I thought," Hey, If Julianne Moore and Annette Bening can make their marriage work amidst the craziness of family life--so can the rest of us! I also realized that for the August/September reading focus--It's time to go back to a book we began reading months ago. Elizabeth Gilbert's " Committed" --Now that her earlier book, "Eat Pray Love" is a new movie opening this Friday nationwide with the fabulous Julia Roberts, I thought...It's time to re-visit this author and delve deeper in to her thoughts on love, marriage and the stress of it all!
Hopefully, many of you still have your copy of the book. "Committed" I have been re-reading sections I skipped--yes, I do that--
My favorite line today from the book is this one on page 131. " Maybe creating a big enough space within your consciousness to hold and accept someone's contradictions-someone's idiocies,even-is a kind of divine act. Perhaps transcendence can be found not only on solitary mountaintops or in monastic settings, but also at your own kitchen table, in the daily acceptance of your partner's most tiresome, irritating faults."
I love my man deeply, but after 21 years..day in and day out--I find, like Elizabeth says..I have to find acceptance at my kitchen table every day--otherwise we're doomed. Their are aspects to anyone, that if focused upon, will drive us mad. My mantra with my man is focusing on all his positive qualities--I think this is why we I still am in love with him.
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