You can feel trapped by an option you once demanded other people give you.
RESILIENCE
RESILIENCE
You can win something and find it a burden. The autonomy you asked for arrives as a set of decisions you now have to make alone, the flexibility becomes a schedule nobody else will hold, the freedom becomes responsibility. What you wanted was real, and its inside is different from its outside.
When something you asked for feels heavy, resist concluding you were wrong to want it. Ask what support the new arrangement needs that the old one supplied automatically. Usually there is a specific missing piece rather than a mistaken wish.
What freedom did you fight for that now feels like a burden?
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.