For young adults who experience the effects of existential trauma in the wake of COVID-19, high-quality growth-promoting relationships are therapeutic and promote holistic well-being, and are also preventative for emotional disturbances. In this chapter, the author explores how the meanings that young adults create in their relationships will alleviate existential anxieties and promote an enlightened perspective/position in order to greet the existential darkness with compassion and sincere curiosity. This chapter focuses on the Rogerian condition of empathy for young adults to build successful growth-promoting relationships. High-quality relationships offer spaces and opportunities to create existential meanings.