Can someone make you happy? No, they cannot, because happiness is an inner capacity. You can only attain happiness on your own.
If you are “happy” because of someone else, it means that, on some level, the other person is being subjected to your needs, whether in a more obvious or subtle way. On the other hand, whoever tries to make the other person happy becomes bound by the guilt involved in having to provide a constant supply of stimuli to “maintain” their level of happiness.
This, in turn, means sacrificing the giver’s own happiness, creating a clear system of enslavement and surrender of one’s own will. The giver will never be able to meet the constant demands or expectations: they will always feel frustrated, while the receiver will always feel deceived and disappointed.
That is the formula for a relationship of mutual harm and dissatisfaction, which may manifest itself more or less visibly.
Moreover, the result is an extremely volatile form of happiness, always hanging by a thread, which in turn places you in a constant state of fear and anxiety; in other words, under a permanent threat to your peace.
Does this mean that it is better not to have companionship or a partner? No. What it means is that a completely healthy relationship cannot exist unless both people have first become whole within themselves; that is, unless they are already happy on their own and their happiness does not depend on the other person and is therefore not subject to conditions.
That is the true nature of a fulfilling relationship: two people who do not need to complete one another and who, from a place of emotional independence, share their happiness, adding even more happiness to what is already within them.
That is the only healthy relationship that can exist within the ego’s divisive dream.