![]() ![]() Yet providence had interfered with our plans, which was why we were now wandering haphazardly across Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Indonesia, all the while making urgent - even desperate - efforts to return to America and wed. ![]() Marriage was not something we had ever planned with each other, nor was it something either of us wanted. In fact, neither one of us was very comfortable with this whole idea of matrimony at all. I suppose the conventional term for such an individual would be "fiancé," but neither one of us was very comfortable with that word, so we weren't using it. (CNN) - Late one afternoon in the summer of 2006, I found myself in a small village in northern Vietnam, sitting around a sooty kitchen fire with a number of local women whose language I did not speak, trying to ask them questions about marriage.įor several months already, I had been traveling across Southeast Asia with a man who was soon to become my husband. Reprinted by arrangement with Viking, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., from "Committed" by Elizabeth Gilbert. ![]() ![]() Editor's note: Below is an excerpt from Elizabeth Gilbert's new book, "Committed." She begins the first chapter by explaining her resistance to getting married again after a bitter divorce. ![]()
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