Following that conversation, Elias began to change his approach. He stopped looking for love in his accomplishments and started finding it in small, quiet moments:

"Happiness isn't something you 'do,'" Sarah replied. "It’s something you are when you’re present."

: Realizing that to truly love Sarah, he first had to heal from his own past hurts and stop projecting them onto her.

One morning, his partner, Sarah, sat him down. "Elias," she said softly, "you’re so busy trying to build a castle for us that you’ve forgotten to live inside it with me."