What does it mean to be enabled and constrained by our own agency? We must first recall that our agency only exists as it does in a social context. Much like what we learned on subjectivity, we must accept that self identity and free will are secular and yet permanently associated. We develop a self identity based almost completely on subjectivity and social constructions, and we do indeed posses free will as sentient beings, but under the same social confines. One has the free will to do almost anything physically possible-but anything one can think of exists in their minds because of social influence. For example, we have the free will to go to school, or to not go to school. However, these choices would hardly exists were it not for society developing the concept of institutionalized education. In agency's terms, we are enabled to choose whether or not we want to go to school, but in the same breath we are constrained to the mere definitions set down by society as to what going or not going to school even means. We are constrained, in the sense that we don't have a choice in being denoted as "one who goes to school" or "one who doesn't go to school". We are constrained under the constructs of the society in which we live, above all, because we have no free will in choosing whether or not we even want to exist in said society.
To address the "bad relationship" example, one's agency is being constrained, and in this constrain, one has the ability, is enabled, to escape said constraint. Escape is not possible without constraint. The word "escape" would have never come about had not someone in a society in history felt constraint of agency and then used that agency to "escape". All of these terms and ideas have to exists contextually, meaning that without this context, agency wouldn't-nor would it have a reason to exist.
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