Talk:Essays/@comment-4423292-20170604025551

Love triangles seem very like first-world problems. (I mean this in a metaphorical sense, not a literal sense.) Like, you have to people who you both like well enough to seriously consider being with them, they both like you back, and seriously, that's your problem? The world is at your fingertips, and you need only choose.

Love triangles naturally breed wishy-washiness and indecision. This leads to the love interests often being stung along and generally not treated that well by the object of their affection.

This is why I so love the idea of the two love interests in a triangle getting together, and leaving the crux of the triangle out in the cold. And this point is important: I'm not just talking about the two love interests falling for each other, with the original object of their affections too, all in a polyamorous way. (Although I do really love that one too.) But no, that's not what I'm talking about right now: I'm talking about them getting together in a way that cuts out the original center of the love triangle. Maybe this is vindictive and cruel, but there seems something very karmatic about the person who first had two choices but couldn't choose later having both choices taken away from them and then being left all alone.

This also gives agency back to the love interests of the love triangle, who usually don't have much. Usually, all they can do is hope to be chosen, and maybe make big gestures to try to prove that they're the better option. Going for each other is a way of them taking the power back, of them getting to make the choices about their own love lives, and that seems like I'd be really empowering to them.