I don't think, even with an ending that met most of the fantasy, it would mean you never thought back on them without some wistfulness or regret, or nostalgia. I mean even with happy parts of life with real people there are still bits of that. I think sometimes it is a tendency to think there will be one big transformational event and one will then go off in happiness without the messy parts - which to my way of seeing the world is not a possible or even desirable thing to happen.