Love Triangles

The Love Triangle….it’s what makes me want to read a book, and shockingly what I found out recently, people are turned off from reading a book. We all are our own person, I get it. But really? Who doesn’t love a good triangle? Squares are pushing it, I’ll give you that. And shamefully I seemed to have written this formula in my second Amy book, but it clears itself up quickly. 🙂 But a triangle? I love it.

I think that’s all I’ve written so far. And I think it stems from what I like to read and watch. It completely sucks when someone has to choose. And is it always a clear choice? Pretty much, but it grieves my heart to see the one not chosen to stay behind, licking their wounds. Sometimes. Then again, sometimes I add a bit of nasty…not too much, mind you…to their character, in order to not make you feel so sorry for them. To shed light on the clear winner of love.

“Wuthering Heights” started me out on this quest. Clearly there was a winner in love, but what was wrong with her husband? Nothing really, except he didn’t have her heart. Her heart lay securely, deeply-rooted in Heathcliff. Oh, the tragedy! In this case, Cathy couldn’t be with her true love. He was too wild, too un-catchable. Just the same in “Bridges of Madison County”. The heroine feels a deep draw to Kincaid but can never realize it. Tragedy, again! These books are non HEA, but they held such a spell over me. Does there have to be a third angle in order for a character to realize the deeper love she feels for the “real” one? Hmm…

I suppose that’s why people like the ol’ two people angle. Just one girl looking in the world for that perfect mate. The struggles it takes her to find him and keep him. The work-up to just the two of them to take on the world. No other guy to pull at her in the smallest way. Yeah, okay I could get into that. I have read and enjoyed books with this trope, but my meter for love will always pull toward the triangle. 🙂