I had no sympathy for her. She abandoned her husband.

What a horribly unlikable woman. I kept wondering why anyone even called her 'friend' and how it was that she ever got married in the first place.

I read these negative posts about her and the movie and think, 'Would this have had a different reaction if she had not had money?' The wealthy lifestyle of a disgruntled (yeah, that is her!) navel-gazing middle aged woman (every time she referred to herself as 'girl,' I cringed) should at least attract envy. You know, the way that high school girls gather around the cool girl and try to be her friend! Instead, you just want to smack this character.

The best thing about this movie is I found myself sympathizing with Billy Crudup and even identifying with his plight (so many decisions and no career - yet). It made me appreciate my husband even more - and he's no Billy Crudup.

Lorelai.

She woke up and thought about it for 2 minutes and LEFT HER FRICKEN HUSBAND. There was no room for a theory why, a resolution of trying... she just LEFT. ANd she got with James Franco who was WORSE than her husband. There is no excusing what she did in my book.

And BTW, her husband was FORCED to find happiness with someone else. They showed a 5 second clip at the end to wrap up the fact that he was happy in the end. But what about the turmoil HE went through over that year period. And honestly he's psychologically messed up to a point where he'll never fully trust someone in a relationship again. Sorry. Theres no excuse. I hear people trying to rationalize her behavior and it was unexceptionable. I'm waiting for the male version of this where the cocky guy with the loyal good wife at home decides he wants to leave and BANG some young blonde (because he's not satisfied with the cooch he's already got) then heads off to other countries for more shenanigans. They'll call it DOUBLE STANDARD THE MOVIE. Lets see how much it makes.

My hubby and I have spoken about it and have agreed if we don't have children and we reach a point that either of us are unhappy for a long time, sure that it wont change. We are going to speak up. If we no longer make each other happy and there is nothing we can do to fix the problem. Or what we think might fix the problem doesn't then we would both end the marriage for the stack of each other's happiness.

You're right, marriage isn't a "death sentence," it's supposed to be a life long COMMITMENT. When you commit to someone in a marriage, the two of you should work together to be happy TOGETHER. No one is happy all the time. Talk to some single people - most are miserable. So, anyone who goes into marriage thinking that it isn't "for life" or who always wonders "what if" SHOULD NOT GET MARRIED. It's really very simple. I am sick to death of people marrying just because they think it's the next step or the right thing to do.

This woman was the epitome of selfish, and as someone else posted, when a man leaves a marriage "to find himself," he is called all kinds of names. They certainly don't try to romanticize his journey with a romp around the world.

You say abandoned like she left a small child. I could see from the party scene where we first met her husband that she was uncomfortable with children or the idea of committing to them and she was disappointed with her husband's inability to commit to a life choice. During the divorce meeting I think she explained their life and what she didn't like about it very well.

I also think that viewers think that because she woke up in the middle of the night and left him almost the next day that it wasn't a long time coming.

I feel bad for him because he seemed to be blindsided but I think they were both better for it in the end.

People with goals are not very compatible with people who don't know what they want.

The Eraser room does two things: Cleans erasers and takes our innocence.

i get so tired of this "for better or for better" mentality regarding marriage! why do you even get married if you don't intend to keep the vows you say at the opening ceremony?

and to the person that said "If everyone could just work through their problems then there would be no such thing as divorce" - that's like saying if everyone deserved to live there wouldn't be a death penalty. the latter concept is not justified by the former part of the statement. divorce is not something to shrug shoulders at. it should be reserved for truly necessary situations, and while i won't waste your time telling you the only such circumstances i deem acceptable i will say with conviction that Liz's divorce from her husband was self-centered in the worst way. the character was not happier romping across the globe without a husband, and her ex-hubby proved to be right that it was just a faze. she found some other guy that she also didn't want to commit to, but at the advice of a balinese healer she decided he was the one to pitch her tent with.

Liz came to no useful conclusions on her own, even though it's her own life, and then she acts deep and existential while reflecting on the choices she made - or rather the choices that everyone else has made for her. but not everyone, just the sources she chooses to listen to because they seem to have all the answers - god forbid she take advice from the clearly useless man she was married to or the friend that told her she was acting like a college student. i guess those people weren't the "teachers" she refers to in the end, guiding her life.

Sorry, but it sounds like you should have never gotten married to begin with. Here is what I don't understand about people who treat marriage as if it is a open end agreement. Why do you treat a marriage any different than you do any other family relationship or even a life long friendship? You don't hear or see people (for the most part) "divorcing" their children, parents, siblings, best friends. But they will discard their spouse in a heart beat. Where is the loyalty? Where is the commitment? Someone please explain this to me because I honestly don't get it.