After all, isn't happiness what matters?

When two people meet, fall in love and choose marriage to crown a relationship, it's beautiful. It is the culmination of a relationship. But the relationship is not the end of a 21 pm soap opera to root for A and want B to fuck.

Let's improve our parameters of what a relationship is.

Sometimes, the couple can enter different moments in life. And the end of the relationship comes to crown it. It is valid to make gestures of love for the relationship to want the fire of love to be reborn, but to want to force the other to stay, is to be violent towards the happiness of the other.

It is to arrest the other, without at least the other wanting to be there.
And what is the price of your happiness if it costs the happiness of the other?

What selfishness is this?

The other is still unhappy at your side. In time, "your happiness" will become unhappiness.

And you could be happier with someone else who would choose you.
And you could leave the other person free to be happier with someone else.

Although we know that it may be more painful for one than the other when one party accepts that the relationship has ended. One respects the other's decision.

That from then on each one will walk his own path.

It is "perfect" when the two accept the end.

It makes no sense to look at the other as if he were evil. When they choose, it was a choice. When one or both choose not to go on together, it is another choice.

A couple has their good times (raising children, outings, declarations of love ...) and has their bad times (illness, unemployment ...) and this is where one stands next to the other and many do not see it, but two know or at least should remember the small gestures of love made for a relationship when it came to an end.

It is an act of greatness to recognize this as it is an act of greatness to let go.

After all, isn't happiness what matters? If there is a "but" in your answer you may need to review the concepts of happiness and relationship ...