Cupid and Psyche

A king and queen had three daughters, all beautiful and elegant in their manners. But one was more the most beautiful person someone has ever seen, and her name was Psyche. Men came from all across the land to see her just so they can view and adore her beauty. This began to lose control, and the men started to idolize her and pray to her as if she were a goddess, and Aphrodite became forgotten. Obviously shes not going to like this at all, so she orders her son Cupid to punish her by making her fall in love with someone who is horrendously ugly. When he sneaks into her bedroom, he is also distracted by her beauty, and accidentally pricks himself with one of his own arrows, causing him to fall madly in love with her and leaves without punishing her. Her life continues as normal, people come and go as they just admire her, but she is unable to fall in love because of Aphrodite's hate and vengeance. As time goes on, her two sisters get married but she remains alone. Her parents consult the oracle of Apollo, afraid they/she has displeased the gods. They were given a prophecy that she was going to fall in love with a monster that neither gods nor humans can resist. They are told to leave her on the side of a mountain for her lover to come find her, which they did. The wind spirit Zephyr approaches her and picks her up, carrying her down into the valley below to a large castle, which now belongs to her, along with everything in it. That night, her future husband comes in, but she cant see him, and he tells her that she should never try to see him. She's okay with this at first, but then grows lonely since he only comes at night. She convinces him to allow her sisters to come and visit, and he has Zephyr take them from the mountain and carry them down to the castle. They become jealous and ask who her husband is, and she lies saying he is a young, handsome man who spends all day hunting, but they dont buy it and she tells them how shes never seen him except for at night. They remind her of the prophecy, that he could be a monster, and they tell her to go tonight and see who he is. She does this, and finds Cupid in his bed. Entranced by his beauty, she drops the lantern on him, burning him. He wakes, furious, and flies out the window telling her she will never see him again. The palace then disappears and she is left alone, and goes back to her sisters, who take this as an opportunity to take her ex-husband as their own. So they go to the top of the mountain and jump off, expecting Zephyr to carry them down, but they actually fall to their deaths. Psyche searches all over for Cupid, with no luck, and eventually ends up in Demeters temple, which was a total wreck, so she cleaned it up a little bit, and Demeter thanked her by suggesting she beg for forgiveness to Aphrodite so she can finally fall in love and stay in love with Cupid. Aphrodite is mad and lashes her tongue, and tells her the only way she can marry cupid is if she completes certain tasks. The first was to organize a whole barn full of hay and stray and wheat, which she does by the help of ants. But Aphrodite claims she didnt do it on her own, so she is given another test, to collect the golden fleece from the backs of the herd of sheep in the field, which she does by the help of the river god that they will kill her unless she waits till noon when they are in the shade and they wont do anything. Aphrodite says the same thing about her doing it on her own, and gives her a final task: to go to the underworld and ask Persephone to put a bit of beauty in a box for her to bring back, which she does with the help of cupid telling her theres a cave to the Underworld instead of killing herself. She opens the box and falls into a deep sleep. Cupid wakes her up and tells her to take the box to Aphrodite and he will handle the rest. He goes to Zeus and tells him to calm down Aphrodite and he does. The Gods bring Psyche up to Olympus and turn her immortal so she and Cupid can live together forever. They have a daughter named Hedone, also known as Pleasure. I don't believe in love. It is an artificial emotion that people use as a scapegoat when things aren't going as planned, or they use it as a crutch to walk on through their whole life. Those who love are weak and don't have the moral capability of taking responsibility for their own actions. They just need someone else to help share the pain with. Not really, I just don't know any love stories other than beauty and the Beast, Alladin, and other Disney movies.