Fairy tale stories of living happily ever after have often been shunned by those in personal and spiritual growth circles. Here we see a path to vital, healthy and happy relationships that can span the path of your own growth in a relationship. A relationship is a joining of two people for the purpose of spiritual growth, and the sharing of loving energies. One must be able to give love freely, and openly embrace the love of their partner. When entering a relationship, we encounter a new mirror to an inner world we had not previously visited. Explore it deeply, and love it fully, for the love is within you. When you are open to receive love from your partner, you exchange a loving energy. Each person within a relationship, needs to be on a path of personal, and spiritual growth for the relationship to flourish. When you are growing on this path, you will wake up as a new person each day. Not only this, but your partner is a new person each day also. It follows from there that with each new day we begin with a new partner. A partner that has grown from the person that they were yesterday. We ourselves are a new person also and so our mirror image needs to be re-explored. New energies are exchanged when we commune with our partner as we are now open to receive new love and are able to give wholly of the new love within us. This is vital to maintaining a loving and spiritual relationship where the wonder of your partner never pales. Each new day provides you with not just a new partner with greater personal and spiritual potential, but you yourself gain new eyes with which to view them. The process of exploring your partner begins anew, and each previous discovery becomes a new wonder as you perceive them differently than previously. Often, we hear expressions such as "I love my partner more now than when we first met", this is the only circumstance where the relationship could possibly flourish. Anything less is merely tolerating the person you are with. This type of relationship will not flourish, nor will it last long. Many of the issues people face in relationships is dealing with the same person, and same issues day after day. The monotony of such a relationship leaves the partners flat and soon the life and love fades from the relationship and soon the relationship fails. A failed relationship is not the same as a relationship that is terminated. A failed relationship is one in which there is no personal or spiritual growth. These relationships can be detrimental to those who are in them as the only sparks are anger at the other and "making up" after fights in an effort to mimic the falling in love process that those on a spiritual path gain every day through love. Always remember that your partner is your spiritual mirror, and they should be honoured as they teach us about ourselves. A partner has much to teach, and one needs to be aware of the lessons and integrate them into daily life. It is not just is a primary relationship that this holds true. In all our relationships, casual, personal, or professional we attract mirrors of ourselves. If we do not like what we see in these people, it is often because they have qualities we deny in ourselves. These people are spiritual messengers, ( yes there really are angels ) and it takes great strength and compassion to embrace what we perceive as bad as part of ourselves, and to love that part of ourselves. The person who is delivering the message also needs to be honoured for presenting the gift of opportunity for growth. As we embrace and begin to love the part of ourselves that we had previously denied, and did not like in the other person, we begin to accept and love them, as we love ourselves. Happy Ever After is right now!