I will focus on the critical strategy of feminism Eat Pray Love "A woman seeks everything in Italy, India and Indonesia" (Elizabeth Gilbert 2006). In this essay we will closely examine the love, lust, marriage and divorce. Many marriages are committed in love but, in all honesty, most are made of lust, which leads us to ask, is there any certainty of the balance of love? Are we ever sure when it comes to seeking a life of solitude or companionship? As children we grow up to learn, you must love yourself before you love someone else. To love yourself, you must understand the definition of self-love: “Self-love: respect for one's well-being and happiness.” Can you honestly say that as we grow older and presumably wiser, when a young woman finds comfort in a man there are often uncertainties within marriage, a commitment is promised not only to someone else, but towards yourself things always change. Suddenly when you agree to get married, it becomes that if you love someone else you have to be able to put them before yourself Where is the balance Once married, we have to reflect on our hopes and dreams, are we expected to be accommodating lifelong goals? Elizabeth Gilbert, a successful woman with a soul full of hopes and dreams. Gilbert, a married woman to whom she does not reveal her husbands' identities but their marriage within Eat, Pray Love. She is a successful writer from New York who believed that once she turned thirty she would become a mother and fit in with any other married woman, but when she finds out at age 31, she is uncertain about motherhood. For the first time Gilbert falls on his hands and knees and introduces him.... ..half of the card......in the process. She saw beyond what she didn't know when she was married, but without her initial marriage that led to great misery, she would never have been able to become who she was destined to be. Not all feminists believe that all men should be shunned and in fact most feminists are believed to marry. It is said that "Sisterhood is powerful, but not that powerful." Marriage does not determine how sovereign a woman is; it is a chosen unity that a couple creates out of pure love. Ultimately, it is our lifelong decision that includes solitude or companionship. Works Cited Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert 2006 Elizabeth Gilbert Official Site: http://www.elizabethgilbert.com/eatpraylove Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert - New York Times http://www. .nytimes.com/2006Time Magazine in partnership with CNN - http://www.time.com/time/magazine/eatpraylove