The inevitability of change- with spoilers from One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reed.

I recently read a book titled One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reed. The book has raving reviews with a lot of people sympathizing with the dilema of the femal protagonist - she had to choose between her fiance and her lost/ presumed dead husband who returns. The premise of the book focused on how she hd changed since she lost her husband and hence they were no longer alike and suited. Brings one to ponder upon the strength of this argument.

You see, change is the rule. As we grow, we get wiser ( or so we hope) or more stubborn and unyeilding, but either way, we do change. People change in their thought processes, per their environment and circumstances. Is that really enough to dissolve a marriage or relationship that has lasted a decade? I am not so sure. Maybe there is growth in embracing the change in your partner, in acknowledging their new priorities and trying to inculcate it in our lives. It would keep things interesting atleast.

Jesse, her lost husband, fought dangerous sea animals to come back to his wife. That trauma needed healing and would have thanked a kind shoulder to share it's burden. Emma's choice to return to her fiance and the life she had built since Jesse, thereby forsaking her marriage, did not ring true to the love it was touted to be. All in all, it left an unconvincing, uncomfortable aftertaste. There was opportunity to dig deeper into their personalities, to speak about strife and the healing process, much that was left desired. Much like the superficial life we chase while everything that is meaningful lies burried within. Maybe we can seek that higher self to love in a way that heals. Maybe that is the purpose and what we call God.