Happily-Ever-After Endings in Romance Books

Are you a happily-ever-afters are mandatory in romance books type of readers or are you okay with happily for now type of endings too?For as long as I can remember, even as a little girl, romance stories have always had happily-ever-after endings. From Cinderella to Jane Austen, we read those books to get the warm feeling that fills us at the end where everything is perfect in the fictional world they created.

But we're in 2022. And happily ever afters aren't real life. Sure, we all aim for our...