In the modern industrialized Western world, where I come from, the person whom you choose to marry is perhaps the single most vivid representation of your own personality. Your spouse becomes the most gleaming possible mirror through which your emotional individualism is reflected back to the world. There is no choice more intensely personal, after all, than whom you choose to marry; that choice tells us, to a large extent, who you are. So if you ask any tpical modern Western woman how she met her husband, when she met her husband, and why she fell in love with her husband, you can be plenty sure that you will be told a complete, complex and deeply personal narrati e which that woman has not only spun carefully around the entire experience, but which she has memorized, internalized, and scrutiinized for clues as to her own selfhood.
- Commited, by Elizabeth Gilbert
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