Love triangle

A love triangle is a type of romantic relationship between three people.


This term is applicable both to cases when two people experience emotional attachment to a third independently of each other, when the first is attracted to the second (to whom he is indifferent), but the second is carried away by the third (to whom the first two are indifferent), and to those in which all The three are in a relationship. As a rule, in a monogamous society, the love triangle is synonymous with the concept of conflict due to the fact that such a state of affairs is unacceptable, at least for one of those in it.


Also, love triangles are often associated with the concepts of unrequited love and jealousy. Stable triangles are possible if all "participants" have polyamorous beliefs.


Statistics show that in Western society, "most adults, both voluntarily and not, have been involved in a love triangle"

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Relationships in a "love triangle" usually result in one of the members eventually feeling betrayed at some point.

For example, "person A is jealous of person C, who has a relationship with person B, who in the eyes of person A is "his/her personality")

If the relationship in the triangle is agreed between all parties, such an alliance is sometimes called a triad, which is a type of polyamory, although polyamory usually involves sexual relations.

In monogamy, love triangles are inherently unstable and give rise to unrequited love and jealousy.

In most cases, the jealous or rejected party ends the friendship, and sometimes starts a fight with the other party over the love interest of a third party. In some cases, love triangles lead to murder or suicide by an actual or perceived rejected lover.

In psychology, "the theme of erotic love triangles and their roots in the Oedipal Triangle" is explored.

Experience shows that “the repetitive pattern of forming or falling into a love triangle can be largely eliminated by starting to analyze the patterns of children's relationships with each parent in turn and with both parents as a couple.