Tell me what you’ve done.

I Never Wanted Her to Choose

The library doors are closed. Tell me everything.

We need to discuss something.

You know that moment when you’re reading a love triangle and the story clearly expects you to pick a side?

Team Him.

Team Other Him.

Choose carefully. Someone’s heart is getting broken.

Except there’s one tiny problem.

You like both of them.

At first, you try to cooperate.

You compare their chemistry.

You analyze the kisses.

You consider who understands her better.

You tell yourself:

Surely one of these men will eventually become less appealing.

And then he doesn’t.

Neither of them does.

Suddenly you’re halfway through the book staring at two perfectly good fictional men and thinking:

Why exactly are we eliminating options?

Carmen understands.

THE LOVE TRIANGLE PROBLEM

Maybe one gives her safety and the other gives her fire.

One knows exactly how to make her laugh.

The other would probably commit several questionable acts on her behalf.

One is sunshine.

One is morally gray.

One gives her butterflies.

The other gives you emotional damage.

And the book keeps asking:

WHO SHOULD SHE CHOOSE?

Meanwhile, you’re sitting there thinking:

Respectfully… both?

Apparently this was not one of the provided answers.

Rude.

TIME TO CONFESS

The library doors are closed.

Carmen has put away the judgmental librarian glasses.

Probably.

Complete your confession:

The love triangle I absolutely refused to choose between was __________.

I was supposed to be Team __________.

But I also wanted __________.

And if you’d been allowed to rewrite the ending?

My solution would have been __________.

There.

Doesn’t that feel better?

OR KEEP IT SIMPLE…

If we’re protecting the fictional guilty, no book titles are required.

Just finish this sentence:

“I knew I was supposed to choose, but __________.”

Maybe:

“…they were both too good.”

“…one had the banter and the other had the devotion.”

“…I had already emotionally adopted both men.”

“…I decided nobody needed to leave.”

Or the increasingly suspicious:

“…why choose?”

Oh.

There it is. 👀

CARMEN HAS ONE FOLLOW-UP QUESTION

Have you ever read a love triangle and secretly wished they just…

didn’t choose?

No dramatic elimination.

No devastated second love interest disappearing into the sunset.

No spending the next three business days recovering because your favorite wasn’t selected.

Just:

You stay.

You stay.

Everybody stay.

Problem solved.

Carmen appreciates efficiency.

This is a judgment-free library.

Unless your proposed solution requires a relationship diagram, three color-coded highlighters, and a spreadsheet.

In which case Carmen would simply like a copy.

Okay, readers confess in the comments. 👀

Did you ever want everyone in the love triangle to end up together?

Names are optional.

Your questionable solution to the love triangle is not. 🖤

Keep that confession handy, darling… Carmen is explaining Why Choose romance tomorrow.

Why choose one love interest when the story says you don’t have to?

Apparently some of us have been trying to solve love triangles this way for years.