My partner wants us to buy land together where we can both have solitude, but we have completely different ideas about what that looks like - they want a social homestead where friends visit and I want actual isolation - and we're both afraid the other person's vision would destroy what we're seeking. We keep having the same circular conversation about acreage and access roads but really we're talking about fundamentally different relationships to solitude itself.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people are trying to build a shared dream around incompatible definitions of peace.
“Where Are You with Solitude in nature?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.