by Le Anne Lindsay, Editor I just finished reading Elizabeth Gilbert’s book Committed, her follow up to the phenomenally successful Eat, Pray Love. (click for T&T commentary on this food in film book/movie)  In it, she examines, dissects, enlightens, muses and laments on the subject of western marriage, along with the marriage customs and outlooks from a few other cultures. Ultimately, she comes to the conclusion that to a large degree, women come up short in the whole marriage scenario; but despite this fact, the state of matrimony, whether it be legal or symbolic, straight or gay, mixed race, religious or secular, is a state that the human condition longs…