Thanks for sharing such a deeply personal definition of freedom. I really like your last statement, "freedom comes with the search of your existential truth and never without consequences."

It's very sad to me that your family would rather make you an outcast than open their minds to the love you share with your partner. It always makes me cringe when I hear of people calling others sinners. We are all sinners, so what makes one sinner more righteous than another? "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast the stone." I'm not religious but I am open to learn from the wisdom found within spiritual texts and I don't think those texts tell us to judge and oppress one another. You've probably already thought about all this so I won't belabor the point :). I was just trying to say that the search for freedom does not necessarily need to have consequences. Our struggle for freedom has consequences because we live in a world that needs to oppress, control, and manipulate others in order to validate one's own value system and beliefs. Until we are all free of such thinking, none of us are truly free. But we can still find joy in our personal experiences of freedom in our lives, as you did, and that is a wonderful thing.