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: Realizing that to truly love Sarah, he first had to heal from his own past hurts and stop projecting them onto her.

Elias was confused. "I’m doing this for our happiness," he insisted. Love & Happiness

He learned that love and happiness were not rewards for being perfect, but the results of being authentic. As the poet Nichole Shirell suggests, their relationship became a declaration of choosing love from a place of wholeness. They found that when they gave up the "myths" of what a relationship should be, they finally found the reality of what it actually was: a constant, beautiful effort of two people choosing to "shine their light" on one another every single day. Defining Love & Happiness - My *Asterisk* Life : Realizing that to truly love Sarah, he

"Happiness isn't something you 'do,'" Sarah replied. "It’s something you are when you’re present." He learned that love and happiness were not

She reminded him that for years, they had often let small arguments become battles because they were both too afraid to be vulnerable. They had been following a "manufactured storyline" of how life was supposed to be lived, rather than listening to their own hearts.