I've recently been reading the Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd. I've heard a lot of good things about it and I am only a little more than half way through it...but at this point I am really annoyed with it. It's written very well but I just cannot relate to the main character. I just hate the feeling I get knowing that this person is having an affair. The funny thing is before I was married one of my favorite books was The Bridges of Madison County (also about an affair). I guess being married has truly changed my whole point of view on love! I guess I haven't been married 20 years like the women in these books, but I just feel that I made a choice to love one man for the rest of my life and even when that task is hard, that is what I signed up for. Anyway there is my little rant! 
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I know! Doesn't it bug that it is a social norm to have affairs and get divorced (I know, I shouldn't really be talking, married to the love of my life who is divorced... but you know the story!) and all that kind of stuff! It's nice to know that there are other girlies in the world who think like me: Marriage is a huge commitment... it takes a lot of compromising and giving when you don't feel like it, but in the end you always have a shoulder to cry on, a hand to hold, and someone to giggle in the dark with :)
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