A happy family

Happiness is a personal idea for everybody as the dominative values are so various. A friend of mine is dreaming about own successful and profitable business and making everything possible to achieve his goal – become happy. Another friend of mine wishes the only thing in a life – a wedding ceremony. It promises to make her happy as well. Happiness in a family is another thing to dream about. Some people succeed in it; some people are not so successful.
Usually a person starts the relations with positive emotions, in some cases - with the long-termed expectations. He/she makes the plans, imagine the future in the very bright colors. But sometimes it is not worthy wearing the pink glasses. The matter is that expectations are derived by the personal ideas of a person about happiness in a family. In the reality, two people with the different characters meet and try to start the relationship, taking into consideration their own ideas and forgetting about a partner. The characters are just the top of an iceberg. Family "Titanic" risks crashing if one of the partners (or both of them) is not ready to the relationship and building a family together. Yes, a one-side work is just a half of the way. The work is to be mutual.
As they say, a family is to move in the same direction. Every family has own recipe of the warm and friendly atmosphere in the relationship, so, every happy family are similar. But as for the unhappy families... well, here everybody has a rich resource of misunderstandings and quarreling or ignorance and indifference.
As for me, I believe that the final goal of happiness is feeling harmony, which is peace of mind.
Where does a person spend most of his spare time? Usually, he/she is surrounded with his relatives. So, sometimes the sense of a human life comes to the same thing. He/she should keep friendly relationship, fight the disadvantages of the dearest and nearest, and self-affirm. In general, it is a never-ending process, sometimes exiting, sometimes tiresome. But it is a part of an everyday life. Well, how to keep peace in mind? How to build the relationships? Who is responsible for happiness in a family? Or, perhaps, it is a mutual responsibility? What are the rights and duties like? What ate the rules?
In fact, is family happiness possible? Or it is just a myth? Definitely, it is possible. But how? So, let's try to learn it together.