It always amazes me that love triangles are such the thing in films, television programs and novels. There is something intrinsically sad about the idea of two friends being divided over their mutual affection for one person. To really sell a triangle, you have to build belief and support up into both the individual relationships with the gentleman or lady in question, but also the relationship between the friends or worse, the siblings, who are divided.
Love in the Daytime
Soap operas are infamous for their love triangles, but the problem you run into is that a love triangle always involves a sacrifice on the part of one so that the other may find happiness or they both forgo the love in favor of their friendship. While this sounds very simple on the surface, matters of the heart are far from simple.
In fact, emotion complicates matters because love itself can come in many different shapes and sizes. The love shared between two friends is strong. Attraction, sexual and emotional, is also very provocative. When you are forced to choose between one love and another, the stress is hardly a cheerful thing.
So why is it – when these types of things occur, can the two who find themselves involved with one person not just talk to that person? Why are their wishes and feelings left out of solving the equation? Talking to each other is the best way to clarify the situation.
Just because two people love one person, does not mean that one is going to lose – it just means that they need to learn what that one person wants as well. It may be that he or she is not in love with either, or that his feelings for one preclude his feelings for the other.
Have you ever found yourself in a love triangle?
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