After I Do book review
Unconditional love is a lie. I'm sorry to tell you if no one else has ever told you, I'm here to tell you. My name is Kyla Denanyoh, and unconditional love is a lie. Keep reading to find out what book I'm reviewing today.
Hey, y'all, I'm Kyla Denanyoh, and today, we are discussing why unconditional love is a lie. You see the fairy tales, you see all the stuff. Oh, unconditional love. I just want to be in love with my Prince Charming. All the fairy tales had conditions. Cinderella had to fit into the shoe to find the love. Jasmine needed to be a princess for Aladdin to love her. They all had conditions, okay?
Today, we're talking about the book After I Do. The author of the book is Taylor Jenkins Reid. The genre of the book is fiction. The theme of the book is literature. There's probably a sub-theme of marriage because it's also about marriage.
So y'all listen, I love Lauren. I really liked Ryan. They were lying. They were lying to themselves. They were lying to their family. They were lying to each other. They were lying for 11 years of their marriage. My favorite thing about this book is that it's going to make all of the married people and all the people who are dating and want to be married and all the engaged people, all the people, it's going to make them want to be honest.
Let me get to it. Why is love not unconditional? Lauren and Ryan realize their love has conditions. Lauren's love is conditional on you respecting me and telling me the truth. Ryan's love is conditional on you not suffering to be with me if you want to be elsewhere. You are being honest with me. Don't come to another Dodgers baseball game with me if you hate baseball and wish to stuff peanuts in my ears. I can go to the game alone, and I still love you, okay?
Lauren's love. You don't have to go with me to the Ethiopian restaurant. If you want a burger, have one, and you can just sit next to me with Ethiopian food. Or if you hate the smell of it, I'll eat upstairs, and you eat in the kitchen. We still love each other. You don't have to do all these things together and be under each other to be in love.
But that's not even the lesson. The lesson is you have to be honest because love is not unconditional. There are conditions. What I love about this book is that I hope it makes other people and other couples want to be honest.
I think Lauren and Ryan lacked self-awareness. I hope this book inspires people to become aware of self-awareness in a relationship. I learned it really early when I was married because my parents had been married for 40 years before my dad passed. I would go to my mom and say it's not fair. I'll sit next to him and watch The Amazing Race, and he won't sit next to me when I'm watching, I don't know, the Young and The Restless. And she's okay, so don't sit next to him. But I wanna be with him, he's my husband, he's so cute. Girl, well, sit next to him and listen to an audiobook, sit next to him and read a book, sit next to him and crochet, or do anything. If you want to be with him, be with him.
Okay, all right, fine. So let's just say not soap operas. All right, so I'm watching my cooking shows. Oh, here goes my cooking shows. Be Bobby Flay. Why don't you wanna watch it? Mom, why won't my husband sit with me and watch? Does he love you? Yes. Do you love him? Do you guys enjoy talking? Do you enjoy being together? Yeah. He does not have to watch TV with you. I get it. You want him to be there. You want him to enjoy all your passions, but you don't have to have passions on top of passions. He does not have to enjoy all these things as long as he appreciates them about you. Really?
You have to be self-aware. I am still my own person within my marriage. My husband is still his own person within the marriage. Lauren and Ryan had to realize their own people within their marriage. They are choosing to be together. They are choosing to be here. Right? And so all the lessons that they learned from Charlie, all the lessons that they learned from the mom and even the grandma have helped them to become self-aware and help them to realize we can be ourselves and be together. And that's the beauty of life after I do. I hope people who read the book understand the value of being your own person in your marriage.
So I absolutely enjoyed the book After I Do. I love how Lauren and Ryan became self-aware because marriage can be complicated and difficult. Still, there are ways to make it less complicated. And one of them is being honest, being self-aware, and realizing that there are conditions in your marriage.
Until the next book review, Kyla
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