My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness + My Brother's Husband

The amount of real (ˈrē(ə)l n. : A measure of a work's relationship to the reality that we live in) that was in My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness felt almost staggering. Nowadays, especially on social media, there's a lot of confusion among the young adult generation (20s-30s) about what finding happiness and a place in this world could be and this story captured a lot of that essence pretty well on top of offering a way for the audience to see that it is a problem with a solution - and that it just takes time.

One theme that was brought up very often throughout the entirety of the story is the binding that someone has to their parents. Not all people feel so dependent on their moms and dads, but a lot of people do and that inhibits their power to create a life they enjoy living. This story quickly illustrates trying to please the idea of what it is that would please your parents is something that will only drag you, yourself, down. The rise of independence and therefore self-care is important to everyone's development if they want to become the person they truly are. Not unlike the main character's experience in hiring a prostitute to discover her true wants and wishes, finding independence is often a lot easier to do through the relationships of other people (as ironic as that sounds). She learns a lot about what won't fill the void in her heart through the first woman prostitute that she meets and, from there, is able to adjust her life perspective into something that helps her mentally. When she gets another woman prostitute, although she doesn't do everything she says she wants to do within that interactions, she's able to do a bit more than the first time she was with the first woman.


My Brother's Husband (the first 5 chapters), was also pretty interesting because it also dealt with learning acceptance of different people. Kana's father (who's name is skipping me right now) has a tough time finding his viewpoint on how to feel about Mike, his passed-brother's husband. Amidst his confusion, his initial instincts tell him that Mike will try to come onto him or that Mike is weird because he is gay or that Mike is someone to be wary of due to his sexual preference. But, through Kana, he learns that Mike's way of living is not as alien as he originally thought that it was. By allowing Mike into his life, he grows to accept that people are different in their interests and that's okay - there shouldn't be a norm for things that are not harmful, like love. Everyone should react to someone else's relationship that an innocent kid would.