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Psyche was a princess, so beautiful that the goddess Venus became jealous. In revenge she instructed her son Cupid to make Psyche fall in love with the gross hideous monster. But the thing was when he saw her he fell in love with her himself. He took her to his palace. Because he was a god he forbad her from seeing him and visited her only at night as a mysterious invisible lover. The Psyche actually started to have a great time. The only thing was she missed her family a bit and persuaded Cupid to let her go back for a visit. She told her sisters all about him. And of course they were quite jealous. They always are, aren't they in those stories... And they persuaded her that she should look at him to find out if he was a monster. So that night when he came to her, after they'd made love he fell asleep and she lid lantern. When she saw him and how amazingly lovely and perfect he was, she spilled some oil. That landed on the shoulder by his wing, burned him and he awoke. Of course he had to leave. That was it. Psyche had broken the promise. In the rest of that story Psyche goes through torture and tribulation, and humiliation to try to find him again. She undertakes the series of cruel interfered tasks set by Venus in the hope of winning him back.
In the end she succeeds because Cupid himself can't bare to witness her suffering. He pleats for her cause to the gods. And Psyche becomes an immortal herself and they married in heaven. But at the end of the story she is not the person she was in the beginning. And neither is he

But if after our exile
and our torture
we should be together
someday in love-temple
There is no doubt
We will light your lantern
on the altar
And that lantern will never
ever go out
Lights out
Lights out