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Why Worrying About Having A Lack Of Freedom Is Irrational In A Good Relationship

3 min readNov 8, 2020

The freedom to be who you want to be and do what you want to do is strongly associated with the single life. You don’t have to worry about someone else’s thoughts, ideas or concerns about how to spend your time. There is no other person that you need to deal with in regards to how you live your life if you’re single. You are unattached from any specific individual in a relationship sense.

In my blog post called, “Why Do We Look For Love?” that I published back on May 30, 2020, I talked about a 75 year study done by a group of Harvard researchers that proved that love is really all that matters. The participants in the study had lifelong experiences that revealed happiness and life fulfillment revolved around love or simply searching for love. We all want love whether we will admit it or not! We want love, but we also want freedom to be who we want to be. Why can’t we be who we want to be AND be loved for it?! Some people think that it is one or the other or that love is some sort of imprisonment. If you identify love with the opposite of freedom, you will find yourself struggling to even want to find a relationship.

There is a conflict that some people run across. You may really desire love or want to search for it, but feel that it will create a lack of freedom or limit you in…

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Sara Knick
Sara Knick

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