another odd dream

I have a lot of them. This one was a bit disturbing. Two men from my youth were transmogrified into a single individual. This person was asking me to stay living where I was, and to wait for him to return as he roamed the world in search of himself. He was very sincere and he loved me, I sensed, but I refused because I had my feminist feathers ruffled by the request. This young man was so upset that he chopped all his beautiful bright red hair off with an ax and left. I saw him walking off but wasn't sure what I was seeing. I went into the backyard and there was a stump of a tree that had been hacked down with crude and angry ax cuts, and a skull that had all the hair trimmed close to the bone with an ax. Even the inside of the skull had been scraped out with an ax. Somehow, this was that man's head. I was suddenly struck by his anguish over the loss of my devotion and I was crushed. Finally in my dream I realized that it could not literally be is head but was a symbol. Somehow I came to the understanding that it was "Elizabeth's" head....a child who had died a while ago and that discovery filled me with horror. I wonder if I ruined any young men in my day? I can't imagine that I ever meant that much to anybody.