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Discuss (from personal experience, if possible) how the loss of freedom is related to the pursuit of hidden goals.
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Always wanted to be married and nave a successful marriage, wanted to make my wife happy and kids and never have a divorce, have what my parents failed to do at a critical time in my life, well after a divorce of my own, and a lot of soul searching I discovered I was replacing my number one relationship that with the trinity with that of my wife and kids, the focus was more on what security i got from them and that relationship than the true relationship that could bring me true peace and joy.
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If I believe I have to stay in a marriage that is heart crushingly difficult at times “because I am a Christian” (but outside of the power of
God) I can easily turn to victimhood or martyrdom. But when I respond to this is the mission field that God has called me to, to love the one He has given me, I am free to depend on Him to love through me and not from my own power, which is impossible.