Does happily ever after really exist?

Answer 1

only on the beach in Florida.

LOL

Answer 2

Depends. If happily ever after means you will never have a disagreement with your significant other... then no. America has a 50% divorce rate these days. This means that 50% of couples do not end in happily ever after.

However, that means 50% of marriages do not end in divorce. Of those, some of them have to be happy marriages right? My preference would be to define happily ever after as the following. For better or for worse, good times and bad times, sickness and health, the couple still loves each other. Even if they fight they still love each other. If it is defined like this then happily ever after exists for many.

Happiness is what each person makes it to be. In other words, is the glass half empty or half full? Some people aren't built mentally to live happily ever after (cynics, pessimists, etc.). Others realize you are in this mess (life, like it or not) and might as well make the best of it and enjoy.

Answer 3

Nope. Not for everyone like it should.

Instead what we get are a *few* people with lots of money and no problems or "issues", and *they* get a shot at it while the rest of us just sit here and hurt.

And the problem is not with "ever after". People die, but some few of us do manage to hog it all *for the rest of our days on the earth*.

The problem is with "happily". It costs too much money and people are too quick to judge and shut each other out of their fair share of "happy" just because they look funny, or smell funny that day, or have "baggage", or maybe are having a bad day at the moment.

So yeah. For most of us, it doesn't exist. Sorry. -_-

Answer 4

Tres, Dear,Yes it does but both people need to be totally honest and comitted.With themselves and each other and Jesus Christ must be the foundation a marrige is built upon ! My marrige however failed after 7 years. I learned my wife was cheating and then to add injury to the insult I crashed my motercycle. Disabled we divorced and I let her have everything just to be rid of her. So here I sit but I am not bitter just alone, cause no money no honey ! Sad but true. I"m still a hopeful romantic though !

Answer 5

It does, if you get out of your head the Dream World that Hollywood tries daily to sell us. It's not all about money, fame, power, how much we have, or the material things. No white knights to sweep women off their feet, no no big-hearted(boobed) hookers with hearts of gold with awesome bodies who can cook, clean, knock a man's socks off in bed, knowing just what he wants all the time and always ready, able, and willing to give it to him. Happily ever after depends on what makes you happy in the first place, and how happy you were with yourself to begin with.

It's taken me 34 years(I just turned 34 in May)to get where I am now. Anyone who knows me would ask how the hell could I be so happy with my life. I'm still overweight, diabetic, bad back, high blood pressure, bipolar, anemia, asthmatic, and on dialysis. I lost most of my friends not long after I hurt my back because I couldn't go out & party anymore, I can't have anymore children because of the illnesses, my Husband's not the best looking man in the world, I never was good-looking and never will be, most of my family can't stand me, and we're drowning in debt.

Am I living a charmed life? Hardly. Can I say this is happily ever after for me? I can honestly say yes, this is.

Why?

My Husband loves me and takes care of me. Ours is a deeply devoted and, for the most part, happy marriage. Our son gives us much joy and I'm so full of love for my family that sometimes I think my heart'll burst from it. The few friends I do have left, I know I have because they truly care about me as a friend, not just because I'm buying drinks & doing dumb things once I'm plastered that they can all laugh at. I may not get along with most of my family, but I know we all do love each other, and they have my back whenever I need them. And vice versa. The family I do get along with, I can depend on even more. And my in-laws are a dream! They've accepted me into their family as one of their own from day one. Our house is small, but it's paid for and it's ours. I'm on dialysis and a ton of medications, true, but I'm alive to see the smiling faces of those I love, and, for now at least, I still have my eyesight and all my limbs. I can't run or dance but I can still take walks from time to time with my son, I can still see, and I can still hug those important to me. I've got it good.

Life isn't about *what* you have, how much you have, or even what you can get. It's appreciating and best utilizing what your Creator has given you, both good and bad. Using the bad as a stepping stone and a lesson for better things, and seeing the good as the gifts they are. Love what you've got, cherish it, because it can all be taken away in an instant.

So, yeah, I'm living proof that happily after does exist. Let's face it, dead is dead, and dead is forever. So I say take what you have & live each day like it's a fairy tale, even when you know it isn't. It could *always* be worse, yes?

Answer 6

Yes. If you accept Jesus, when you die you have eternal happiness or happily ever after in heaven.

Answer 7

I wish it really did. Because my life would end like Cinderella or Beauty and the Beast.....and they lived happily ever after.

Answer 8

No it does not exist. It would take a miracle for two people to live a life of perfect bliss. It would also get pretty darn boring.

Answer 9

I would have to say yes, but keep in mind there is no perfect life

Answer 10

well of course it does... it takes a while to get there and u have to work hard...
just keep workin at it and it will come.... just remember to have fun :o)
hope u live hapily ever after...

Answer 11

Not in the fairytale sense, but in real life, you can be happy if you work at it. It doesn't just happen "magically."