Does happily-ever-after exist?

happily ever after

There are no guarantees that happily-ever-after will be your relationship experience unless you can take responsibility for your own life and make it happen.

Doing the inner soul work and consciously practicing unconditional love, two people can champion the cause of a lifetime of love and happiness.

Contrary to what some believe, unconditional love is not co-dependency or dysfunctional in any way. It is complete love, true love, love as it was always meant to be. It’s caring about the happiness of your partner without any concern for what you might get out of it yourself. It’s refusing to point the finger of blame when things go wrong and instead, choosing to look in the mirror at your own reflection. It’s appreciating everything about your partner without needing to change them to fit any of your expectations.

It takes courage and hard work to love like this, so it’s not for the faint-hearted. But if you do choose to walk the higher way of unconditional love you will discover that an intimate love relationship doesn’t have to battle with endless issues or go off the rails, nor does it need to come to an end. “And they lived happily ever after” can become your reality if you make it about the one you love, the one who calls to your soul, and not all about yourself.

~ Daniel Nielsen