Is something wrong with me? No wait, don't answer that! ;oP

[FarmGirl]

I don't believe in "Happily Ever After" anymore.

 

I don't believe in "True Love".

 

Do you?

Why?

[xxoo]

"Happily Ever After" --no. Everyone has hardships and sorrows in life, regardless of the success of their partnership.

 

"True Love"--yes. I look at my grandparents, and how deeply they love each other after 65+ years of marriage, and see true love.

[tnttim]

Happily ever after: Yes I still believe in it. Call it selfish but I think a positive attitude and always remembering when times are bad there are assured to get better. I believe happiness like beuty, is in the eye of the beholder. Just try to be happy.

 

True Love: I beleive in it's cousin, plain old love. True love sounds like love without struggles and hardships, which are the tests of love.

[She's_NotInLove_w/Me]

I believe very strongly in LOVE... TRUE LOVE. It is my own wife who has given me this gift. Fortunately, I have the self confidence and self worth to know I deserve it and that is due to the gift of TRUE LOVE given to me by my parents for the many years they raised me... I hope I can give my children the same gift!

 

HAPPILY EVER AFTER... that one is more of a fairy tale to me. Life throws us all sorts of challanges. Though I am thankful I have a loving partner by my side to handle those challanges... I am not so sure that so called 'happily ever after,' is there for me to find. I might even venture to say a couple whose time together that I might define as being close to a "happily ever after," probably doesn't even know it! They have not experienced the tough times (or at least the really really tough times) to be able to appreciate how easy things are for them...

[Nikki Sahagin]

I don't really believe in either anymore.

 

I don't think there is such a thing as a happily ever after, if there is, it isn't determined by a relationship. People are naturally restless and contentment breeds boredom, or is often misconstrued as boredom. I think happiness is a work in progress, happiness with yourself, a job, a partner etc. So happiness cannot be ever after, it has to be worked at, all of the time. Contentment ever after I do believe in, but I think human beings are naturally driven to want more; we are always re-evaluating what brings us happiness.

 

True love? I believe in love, but 'true'? I think love is so complicated. I believe it exists most definately...but I don't really know anymore that the most beautiful, amazing kinds of love last. They all either end or settle into something quieter, more peaceful. Maybe THAT is true love.

[xxoo]

True love? I believe in love, but 'true'? I think love is so complicated. I believe it exists most definately...but I don't really know anymore that the most beautiful, amazing kinds of love last. They all either end or settle into something quieter, more peaceful. Maybe THAT is true love.

 

To the bolded part...yes, that is what I think of as "true love". Deep, steadfast love that rides out the hurdles of a lifetime together

[Woggle]

I try to not be cynical but it is rough. There are times when I do think the people who don't believe in love are the ones who have it right.

[Got it]

I absolutely believe in Love but do not think it, or happily ever after, actually will just exist without daily effort.

 

If one invests and nutures the Love between the romantic partners as the do their children, their jobs, and their other passions, you will end up with that happily ever after. That ever after is the partnership supporting you through Life's challenges. That is the messy beauty of it.

[You Go Girl]

I believe in happily ever after--

I've been through hell and back a few times. That happily ever after comes from me now just appreciating a sunny day, a good song on the radio, the sound of laughing kids on the playground (kids I don't even know), a cat that wants petted, a good piece of chocolate, an ability to watch the riled up political rants on tv and take it all in stride.

That's where my happily ever after is. Taking it all in stride. I know one thing for sure, and that's that I don't want to end up an uptight stressed out person. So, seeing myself on that course a few years back, I just GAVE UP. Not gave up on life--but gave up on winning, or controlling it, or expecting better of people. I just accept it for what it is, and there--found a little peace.

As for true love? Meh! How about when love comes your way--don't run away from it, embrace it. There. Success, at least temporarily. Temporary may be short of ideals--but who has anything but today, anyway?

We don't own the future and never will.

[Eeyore79]

I don't believe in "happily ever after" simply because life has its trials and tribulations... illness, accidents, other problems, etc. Nobody is ever going to have a perfect "happily ever after" in which there are never any difficulties or sad times.

 

I do, however, believe in true love... I just don't think everyone gets a chance at it, because it's highly dependent on being lucky enough to meet the right partner at the right time. I'm still hoping I'll be one of the lucky ones