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Encyclopedic overview
Humans have traditionally lived within family-based social structures and in artificial shelters. Personal life is the course or state of an individual's life, especially when viewed as the sum of personal choices contributing to one's personal identity.
Apart from hunter-gatherers, most pre-modern peoples' time was limited by the need to meet necessities such as food and shelter through subsistence farming; leisure time was scarce. People identified with their social role in their community and engaged in activities based on necessity rather than on personal choice. Privacy in such communities was rare.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “personal life” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.