It is easy - especially in this age of ever increasing mis/disinformation (‘fake news’), identity politics, and polarisation - to overlook that behind each ‘mask’ that we wear for social presentation in our mundane routines, there is a real person underneath: ‘Man is by nature a political/social animal’.
The person is longing for love but feels a necessity to hide parts of themselves, those that are considered ‘inconvenient facts’, thought of as truly reflective of the life path and trajectories we have been on.