Fortunately, people are no longer forced to choose the one and only culturally acceptable lifestyle — marriage and 12 kids. It’s still a new phenomenon to have so much choice, only about 50 years or less, but there’ll never be freedom to be one’s authentic self without choice. The tribe serves a purpose but man do they smother a person to death if you let them. If we give up the progress we’ve made, it’ll be a huge mistake.