Life is a balance of freedom and ties. I wrote a post about the biological/philosophical side of this question.
How free are we truly, and how much of us is instinct and biology?
In terms of human relations and life choices, which are already within those basic ties, there are even more limitations. I want to go to France or Germany, walk around in an electronics store and buy a laptop, but I don't even have the money for an aeroplane trip, much less for a laptop. If I leave, I will leave my family stranded, and I have compromises. In a sense, I am free because I can choose to steal someone's money and escape to Europe and do what I want, but that's not the life I want, so, within my freedom, I tie myself by choosing to follow the principles I ascribe to myself.
In this sense, you could say that you're tied to your choices, your morality, your points of view, your past, etc...
But in the end, we have both those ties and our free will. Even if we're tied, we have freedoms, and I choose to live within those freedoms. I struggled a lot with this before thinking about it, but I realised: if we have certain permanent ties that we cannot change, affect, and thinking about them makes us miserable, then we must not think too much about them. We must accept them with joy, and live within our freedoms with joy, and look for things that make us satisfied, and only then will we feel fulfilled.