I consider myself striving towards car independance, but I've got a long way to go before I would feel comfortable calling myself car-lite. I bike to work about 2-3 days per week, and my wife and I can do much of our shopping on foot or by bike. But I have friends that live about 15 miles away that I drive to visit on a weekly basis, and my wife and I drive about 60 miles to San Francisco once or twice a month to go dancing.
Although I would love to reduce my automobile usage even further, my wife does not share my aspirations towards becoming car-free. She does understand my strongly held convictions, and does humor me from time to time, but most of the time, when we go anywhere together, we go by car.