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CRAIG'S CALL

The third angle

Never date your best friend's love

YOU, ME AND WHO? Your best friend can turn into your worst enemy

Call them soap operas, serials or whatever; they are one of the most dragging yet addictive things on television today. Nothing can make the estrogen levels of a woman go so high, even though they probably know what's coming up next.

The reason I'm talking about serials because most of them are based on love triangles. And that's what today's column is about. It's better to watch and forget these "triangle stories". Don't get carried away and get into one. But all those who are into this kind of a relationship and want to know whether it is right. Here's my opinion. (Remember you asked for it) Let's start with the plot. Girl meets boy or vice versa. They fall in love. Then find it difficult to adjust and break up. Next enters either of the partner's best friend. Though one of the two is trying to work things out and get the relationship back on track, the best friend presence makes things worse. Finally, the best friend mails me telling me that even though his/her friend is miserable and wants his/her partner back, he/she has got into a relationship with him/her. So that brings me to the ending and the question that is asked by the best friend. "I feel bad but should I tell him or her? I don't want to loose this beautiful friendship and I'm happy with the love I've found." And here's my answer. I don't know about a lot of you but since school I have known one coveted rule about the dating game — "Never take your best friend's date if he or she is in love with him/her." But if you do, I think and that's the lowest that you can get in the world. Instead of stealing someone's love, a better idea is trying to patch things up. Secondly, to the one who has accepted this newfound romance, I pity you. You have no values in life. And finally to the person who has been betrayed, consider yourself lucky. The person whom you were dating is actually the loser. As for your `best' friend, with one like this who needs enemies.

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