How to Get to Happily Ever After
The path to lasting love and a true happy ending.
I am a romantic. There is no denying it.
I was raised in the 80’s on a steady diet of John Hughes romantic comedies, Sweet Valley High novels and power ballads. It was dramatic. We were dramatic. The expectation was huge romantic gestures…John Cusack with a boombox standing outside my window…and only happy endings.
I thought for so long that it was all about falling in love. It was about the beginning. What happens next? Who cares. We are in love and the rest will sort itself out.
Roll credits. Ride off into the sunset. Mission accomplished. Right? Nope.
What it Means to Fall in Love
Falling in love is beautiful. It is flowers and butterflies. It is exhilarating, euphoric. We are flooded with every good-feeling chemical our body can conjure to attach us to another human being.
The beginning of a relationship is a cloudy, hazy mess. It is a flood of lust and emotion and it all overrides any warning signs that might be glaring obvious. And before we know it, we find ourselves in a mess of a relationship wondering what we were thinking when we got into this situation.
