The murderer of relationships is fear. Any broken relationship can be traced back to a root of fear, though often we don't recognize it. Coercion is no more than fear. Selfishness is no more than fear. Love casteth away fear (Moroni 8:16) and is the life of relationships. The facade of a relationship can exist without love for a period of time, but it will indubitably crumble at the earliest sufficient convenience.
This is not the use of the word fear when "fear of the Lord" is used in the scriptures. Just as nut free and financially free relate a core difference in the meaning of the word free, so does the fear of men and the fear of God relate a core difference in the meaning of the word fear.
Trust is a building block of love. Hate is a product of fear.
"Charity never faileth. . .all things must fail--but charity is the pure love of Christ, and it endureth forever."(Moroni 7:46-47)
This life is not the end. Christ is the source of all love and because He did not betray us, nor Himself, nor His Father in the face of ultimate pain, His love is the hope and lifeline of our faith. His love is the conqueror of our fear.
Godlessness, once having passed the extremities of its fruits (either ultimate coercive control or ultimate pain and torture), is revealed as meaninglessness.
It is only by and through the light of Christ that meaning can be found. Without it, there is nothing for which to build, nothing for which to create, nothing for which to love, nothing for which loss or suffering can be worthy.
Life endureth forever, for resurrection is the gift of charity. Inasmuch as charity is infinite, so too, now, is life. Life then, shall never fail. Meaning needn't ever fail for us either, but to obtain this eternally, we must know Christ (John 17:3). Love, faith, meaning, and peace are among the fruits of this, (Galations 5:22-23) along with the complete obliteration of fear (Moroni 8:16).
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