Comments on: The #1 Reason Women Love Triangles in Romance

By: Amanda

Amanda — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 20:52:50 +0000

@ Dereck plus in those movies and even books mentioned the viewer or reader meets the heroine or hero first. This is about rom-com screenplays, but he explains it better than I can.

http://www.screenplaymastery.com/RomanticComedies.htm

By: Sharon S.

Sharon S. — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:35:03 +0000

No one has mentioned the most famous (or obvious) one…Twilight! It is fun to pick Teams.

The Hunger Games is an emotionally exhausting triangle. I felt bad for everyone involved.

By: joana

joana — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 05:09:10 +0000

i really love “love triangles!”
especially the ones in which you wouldn’t immediately know who will end up together..

i love SUGAR DADDY by Lisa Kleypas! I love GAGE TRAVIS! can’t get enough of him!

By: dereck

dereck — Wed, 26 May 2010 21:16:15 +0000

Actually Liz, you just proved her point. All the movies you mentioned has a female character that is really good, and another that is really bitchy. This make it a no brainer to pick the right girl. But in the two males one female dynamic, the choices are always harder, making it a much better read or viewing. Ie. Aiden vs Big Sex in the city, Or the Vampire vs the wolf Twilight, or my favorite Jack vs Sawyer Lost. In one girl and two guys, the males are almost evenly matched and that plays well with women’s decision process. (ie – a women’s prerogative to change their minds) Guys process is more straight forward so when he can’t decide between two chicks He’s usually just straight out greedy, and want to have it all.

By: Liz

Liz — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 01:03:10 +0000

No, that’s not why women read love triangles. I’ve read a lot of romance novels and you have obviously read none. There’s a million romance novels where the main character is a girl going after a guy who already has a girlfriend. Two girls and one guy in those love stories.

In fact, I can name two movies off the top of my head that are this way that are also very famous girl movies. In Clueless, the main character has a crush on this guy and she finds out her friend who she just gave a make-over to likes him too and the two of them fight over it. Or in mean girls, the main character again, gets a make-over and gets a crush on the guy one of her friends like.

Haha, more things are coming to mind (and I’m not even thinking that hard.) Like the movie, Cruel Intentions. Sebastian is falling in love with Reese Witherspoon’s character throughout that movie (I forget what her name is), but his step sister is jealous about it because the two of them have a romance together and keep trying to destroy their relationship.

Love triangles with two girls and ones with two guys are actually just as common as one another.

By: RKCharron

RKCharron — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:18:09 +0000

Hi
What a fascinating blog post on the love triangle.
The two men 1 woman is one of my favorites.
Although I often wonder in these triangles why they can’t all resolve it together. Threesomes aren’t taboo anymore.

All the best,
RKCharron
xoxo