A fear of commitment can be spun as a freedom to sleep around, but it's not driven by liberty, but by licentiousness. It is not free to be bound. It is too afraid of being restrained. It is scared of the sacred and abhors obligation. It is too timid to tie itself to something.
"Fight the thing that you fear." ― G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
The only way through it is to face it. You will never be free by fleeing from responsibility. You can chase the rewards of a faithful man without wanting the rigor of his faith, but you cannot be counted faithful that way. You can try to reap a worker's reward without the sweat, but you will not grow callouses that way. You cannot jump in the water without getting wet. You cannot have the coolness of the water without its wetness. You must face reality, accept responsibility, and commit to the discipline of a man. And if you do, you will there finally find freedom waiting there for you.
"The chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild." ― G.K. Chesterton
Discipline is freedom. The man who cannot say, "No," to himself can never be free. His "Yes" can never be trusted. He cannot truly say, "Yes" to Christ who cannot say, "No" to himself. Said the other way, he who cannot say, "No" to himself cannot say, "Yes" to Christ. And those who say, "No" to themselves by entering by the narrow of door of "Yes" to Christ find life, liberty, and the enjoyment of happiness and holiness.
John 10:9
I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
Those who accept the door receive the pasture. Those who humble themselves to the narrow way are escorted to a broad plain.
Freedom is frolicking inside the fences and those who pay the price get to play.
Liberty has a landlord.
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