Why Are Liberal Women Becoming Unhappy? - Brad Wilcox - #933

What do you think about the story of the book, Eat Prey Love? You know, Liz Gilbert's book obviously got a lot of attention, a lot of popularity among women, especially. And, you know, it's kind of first glance really attractive and appealing. But what's, I think, striking about the book is that she kind of ends off by, you know, this sort of storybook romance in impossibly romantic Bali in Indonesia. She meets what seems like the perfect guy who's a feminist, a great cook, a great lover, etc., etc.

They have this in incredible connection. But then you learn 10 years later, Chris, what do you think happens? Did I I already know the how this story ends, unfortunately, because I did my research. Yeah, she leaves him for a for another uh another soulmate. And so the the point I make about this story in my own book.

is that we have a kind of like the soulmate myth out there. There's kind of like the perfect person that will complete us, with whom we'll have like really no major problems, and with whom we'll have a kind of this incredible kind of romantic and emotional connection on a on a pretty regular basis. And, you know, I think the Eat Pray Love book and the last kind of, you know, storybook romance that she gives us in that book is kind of emblematic of this whole way of thinking and approaching relationships, love and marriage. And yet The problem with it, of course, is that by making feelings the foundation of love, feelings the foundation of marriage, you're kind of putting things on a very insecure footing.

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