Secure romantic relationships are based on trust and understanding. They develop over time and tend to last longer; However, just because a couple feels secure doesn't mean they are necessarily happy. While every healthy relationship shines with rays of trust and happiness, shadows full of lies and deceit often lurk. A painting, titled Alley by the Lake, by Leonid Afremov portrays the safe, yet secret, side of relationships. Happiness holds relationships together. Finding someone who brings out feelings, plastering a smile on their face, attracts anyone. It's the heat you want and the intensity you want. Without this feeling, there is no reason to get involved. There would be no relational difference between people. In the study, “Honey, You Make Me Really Happy: Romantic Relationship Quality and Personality Are Predictors of Happiness Among Emerging Adults,” Meliksah Demir states that relationships “experience certain dispositions…which include but are not limited to companionship, help , affection, intimacy and emotional security” (Demir, 2008, p.258). The aspects of Vicolo sul lago, such as the colors and the behaviors that take place, reveal the characteristics that Demir suggests for participating in the happiness of one's relationship. The reliable assistance of another is the help you want. In the study “Within-Person Variation in Attachment Security: A Self-Determination Theory Perspective on Attachment, Need Fulfillment, and Well-Being,” researchers La Guardia, Ryan, Couchman, and Deci, work hard to demonstrate that attachment and dependence on a significant other is detrimental to the functioning of a romantic relationship. The article states: “Research has indicated that satisfying the fundamentals… half of the paper… of a friend's trust. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 29(4), 499-523. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1005166627678#page-1La Guardia, J. G., Ryan, R. M., Couchman, C. E., & Deci, E. L. (2000). Individual variation in attachment security: A self-determination theory perspective on attachment, need satisfaction, and well-being. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 79(3), 367-384. http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/psp/79/3/367/Demir, M. (2008). Honey, you really make me happy: Romantic relationship quality and personality as predictors of happiness among emerging adults. Journal of HappinessStudies, 9(2), 257-277. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10902-007-9051-8#page-1Afremov, L. (2007). Alley by the lake [oil painting]. Retrieved December 2, 2013, from http://leonidafremov.deviantart.com/art/ALLEY-BY-THE-LAKE-69757565