They never end well. You either lose friends, make enemies or both. I would say that the ignorant party involved will eventually find out, and that's when shit goes wild.

"Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another's struggles."
- Lucretius

It might be a personal opinion there, and that's why i won't go into details about my own situation.
In a good scenario, one can be together for 80 years, who is to say that that is natural or you can't just ever fall in love with someone else. one out of three marriages fail, for reasons.
If one has a sexual encounter, and it's just lust, that's one thing, but noone ever chooses to fall in love and usually a married person often is seeking elsewhere something they can't find in the current relation, often to women attention.

I am just more curious if people managed to stay friemds. have happy ends or it will just end in disaster (which might often be the case). though i know from one person in pm it can be a happy end sometime.

The overwhelmingly likely end is disaster.

There's a funny thing that happens in love: we believe, almost without exception, that our particular circumstance is powerful, unique, justified, necessary, special.

Thing is, it's not. It's the same old story, every time. You've seen it in the movies, you've read it in books.

Once you step back, you will generally find that the entrancing intoxicating person who is making you do things that you know you'll regret is, in fact, a pretty ordinary man or woman. With good qualities, of course, but everyone has good qualities. Well, most people. Not, like, the gift-thread scammers.

But when you're up close, they are the only person in the world. Step back a little and they become one in 7 billion. (I'm not saying this is pleasant - it sucks. Just recently happened to me in an unrequited love situation, and I'm amazed now at how little I really rationally looked at this girl I was supposed to care about so much.)

We convince ourselves that our questionable actions are justified because our circumstance, right here in this moment, is so special that it calls for special measures. But this is not true.

Marriages fail, by and large, because people dive into them without looking carefully at their partners: in other words, they just marry the wrong people. I've got some very passionate fiery friends, performers and risky types, and when they marry it's often to equally crazy passionate people. Is it possible it will work out? Well, sure. But usually it doesn't.

You're not looking for discussion, but you state you think it's wrong to marry and stay faithful?

You won't share your personal situation, but you hope others will share theirs?

What the heck, man?! Have some backbone and some integrity and don't be passive agressive.

Haaaaaaaaaa!
But wasn´t bad luck to take women on a boat? :P

Plenty of fish in the sea holmes.

I wonder if wedge-shaped pillows count as love triangles.

Back in the day there used to be a lot more love triangles but then, people started shaving.

What I meant is that wanting something you can't get is a very common feeling, not exclusive to love triangles, not even exclusive to love. Dealing with those feelings, figuring out ways to find acceptance is a huge part of growing old, and eventually dying. Hard to accept for everyone, but that's how it always ends, even with love.

I bring up dying on purpose, because the feelings one has in any kind of breakup situation (even gray ones where it's not an absolute NO, but a mixed signals kind of thing) are very similar to grief over death. The sense of loss you experience, the remorse, all the things you mull over. However, in breakups the other has not in fact died, making it a kind of ghost situation, where you may end up haunted for a long time.

Does that kind of fit how you see yourself now? Her presence haunting you, somehow present but not present. In my case physical distance was fundamental, we both ended up moving, at least temporarily, very far indeed. Running away from problems sometimes works wonders ... kinda.

Love rectangles > love triangles

Not been in a triangle, but seeing how messed up things can get with just two persons involved, adding another one into this will only create a bigger love mess.

I like the Love Triangle stories in anime, well the the ones that are 2 girls and a guy obviously. My current favorite is "Nise Koi".

I agree. You don't marry to claim the other, you marry to offer yourself to the other.