Love stories don’t have happy endings because their authors didn’t know any better. They have happy endings because those endings let readers access a rare and precious kind of emotional bliss that you can only get from having something that matters to look forward to.
This might be the smartest thing I've ever figured out about how love stories / rom-coms / romances work—both as a reader and as a writer. The happy ending exists to create a set of feelings that we could never access without it.
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