Ashley's learning from a book again.

I finished Eat, Pray, Love and my friend let me borrow the follow-up novel- Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage. It has been very enlightening! I still find myself really identifying with Ms. Gilbert.

Here is an excerpt from today's reading that really meant something to me:

"To this day, I refuse to burden [my fiance] with the tremendous responsibility of somehow completing me. By this point in my life I have figured out that he cannot complete me, even if he wanted to. I've faced enough of my own incompletions to recognize that they belong solely to me. Having learned this essential truth, I can actually tell now where I end and where somebody else begins. That may sound like an embarrassingly simple trick, but I do need to make clear that it took me over three and a half decades to get to this point- to learn the limitations of sane human intimacy, as nicely defined by C.S. Lewis, when he wrote of his wife, 'We both knew this: I had my miseries, not hers; she had hers, not mine.'"