Stuck on Fantasy Island? Here’s How to Escape

What to do when you feel marooned in life.

When expectations about what life “ought to be” go unmet for extended periods of time, our hearts will want to drift into fantasy. It can happen for several reasons.

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Longstanding bouts with tough circumstances occur, such as:

a debilitating illness family issues sexual frustration money problems marital struggles general discontent

We’ll see some other person’s life and imagine that if we had what they have, then we...