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Does freedom lead to loneliness?

Do you agree that today we have so many choices regarding our personal and professional lives yet we have lost the support structure that predetermined roles offered in the past? The meanings of activities that fill most of our time, like working and long-term personal relationships have changed from being financial exchanges to having to offer psychological satisfaction. We don't just go to work, it has to be rewarding in other ways apart from getting a paycheck. We don't just get married to procreate, we have to find the "soulmate". Clarissa Pinkola Estés in her treaty about the ancient female archetype, Women who Run with the Wolves , explains how women can lose their creative soul in search of security. Inhibition of her true desires for an extended period of time leads to voraciousness for the soul-satiating attributes: emotional, physical, spiritual, financial or rational. Domestication of the female instinct kills creativity and fulfilment. Eventually, ...