Rat Race with a Hedonist

You can never love someone enough to make them happy, unless they know what makes them happy and how.

Even though I loved him with everything I had, it was impossible for me to make him happy because all he knew to do to be happy is to replace one short-lived pleasure with another. Eventually, I became one longer-lived short-lived pleasure, too, when he realized he needed to put in effort. But effort, in his mind, is pain. At that point, I became a dispensible liability to be replaced.

If having a meaningful relationship is one of your critieria for happiness, you can't possibly fulfill that criteria by having a relationship with someone who does not at least have an idea about lasting happiness.