There is a world of difference between “Being with you makes me happy” and “You make me happy”. One is a state of mind, the other is a state of heart. And always, always will I choose the second option.

Because to be happy in a relationship is to be comfortable inside a position, a place, a state of being… it is the familiarity of the circumstances that make you content. Circumstances that can be replicated in another time and another place, with another human. Familiarity that sometimes lulls you in with its repetitious charms and masks the ‘not-quite-right’.

But to be with someone who makes you genuinely, deliriously happy just by being who they are… Someone whose strength of love and character carries you despite all the noise life may toss your way… Someone so trustworthy that you throw caution to the wind and launch into the unknown without any fear or second-guessing… there is no substitute for that.

To find a comfortable place to rest is at best refreshing for a time. To find the one person who gives you such enormous wings you need the whole world just to unfurl them –

That, simply put, is ecstasy for the soul.