How One’s Choice (of a Way of Life) may Become a Repressive Authority

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A community, ‘Family by Choice’, existing 17 years, provided the possibility that 18 people join in an adjacent house. The newcomers, married with children, analysed, different ages, professions, backgrounds, had long known this community’s unconventional way of life: wishing to share it, they made sacrifices. Left to evolve their own way of life without authoritative instructions (help, facilities provided), doubts about their choice crept in, despite initial happiness. ‘Family by Choice’ became, in their minds, a dictating, repressive authority. Group therapy clarified this confusion. After one year, despite remaining problems, these people do not wish to return to their previous life.

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