Would you break up a couple for your own benefit?

[chewie49]

if you cannot win on your own merit and have to resort to tearing someone else down to make yourself look good, then you do not deserve the goal you hope to achieve. improve yourself and earn what you want

[Bodom]

My fiancée was in a relationship with a friend of mine who was definitely not boyfriend material. I was in love with her long before they met each other (I even introduced them and warned her over and over what a d-bag he was) and just waited till they broke up because I knew exactly what would happen, being completely honest all along that I loved her and telling her that she should not date that guy.

[Kurioxan]

My fiancée was in a relationship with a friend of mine who was definitely not boyfriend material. I was in love with her long before they met each other (I even introduced them and warned her over and over what a d-bag he was) and just waited till they broke up because I knew exactly what would happen, being completely honest all along that I loved her and telling her that she should not date that guy.

Hah, maybe thats why it happened i sure get interested in a friend introduces me to a "crazy girl" :P fun isnt quite the same as relationships :P

[Bodom]

Hah, maybe thats why it happened i sure get interested in a friend introduces me to a "crazy girl" :P fun isnt quite the same as relationships :P

I was as friendzoned as you can get and she kept asking who my handsome friend was and I knew what kind of guy he was so I just thought meh I'll let it play out and see what happens. I told him to stay away from her though but bros don't always come before hoes.

[LaplaceNoMa]

You can't break up a happy and fully functioning relationship.

/thread

Ironic as it may seem, the only way to check whether their relationship is really happy and strong is to try to break it. If it wasn't strong and happy, you will be able to break it; if it was, nothing you or anyone else may try to do can bring any disorder into that relationship.

Some people are in denial about that fact and sincerely believe in the possibility of external reason X that can affect real love.

[Kurioxan]

I was as friendzoned as you can get and she kept asking who my handsome friend was and I knew what kind of guy he was so I just thought meh I'll let it play out and see what happens. I told him to stay away from her though but bros don't always come before hoes.

bro's rarely should come before hoes, it all depends on the individual situation imo

Well, in the end it all turned as you wished.

[Deleted]

Yes, if I could do it then they had no relationship worth staying in, to start with.

[Ghostpanther]

I fell in love with my wife from the first day I met her. She worked along with my brother and my future sister-n-law at a local building material business. Problem was she was engaged to another guy, so did not interfere. I met her one other time after she got married. I went with my brother to her house warming party, it was really tough to be there given how much I had though about her, I still kept my distance. As fate would have it, 10 years later she ended up getting separated and later divorced.

My sister-n-law informed me that she was moving back home and later got me her phone number and address. I called we talked for about 2 hours, then we started to write one another over the course of a 6 month period at least once a week. We decided that I should move down and get place together along with her brother and share the rent. Six months later we got married, had two children over the next year and half and now been married for 17 years. I left a lot of details out here, but I love as much now as the day we first met.

It is truly amazing how life tend to turn out, I feel truly bless to be married to the love of me life.

You did the honorable thing. Good story.

[drwelfare]

The only thing I can do is ruin things and bring misery.
If I really wanted her I would do it, but make sure to go all out when you do it, nothing to heartless or cold, time to use those favors the low-lifes and no-lifes you know owe you.

[Lucifer Morningstar]

When it comes to the things I want, I do whatever it takes, until I either get it, or fail.
Do what makes you happy, not what others expect you to do.

[Battlegrounds]

You should tell her how you feel. Don't spend years of your life regretting the fact you did nothing.

[Deleted]

I would say that it's not for you to decide. If she wanted to be with you instead of her current boyfriend, she would break up with him. Of course, you can be just selfish and do it.

You can't break up a happy and fully functioning relationship.

Of course you can.

[Deleted]

Depends on what you mean by benefit.

For the love of one of the couple involved ? Not worth the chance of alienating the one your interested in
For the shits and giggles ? - maybe, if I had reason to hate both of them enough.

[noralya]

Someone that will break up with someone to be with you will break up with you to be with someone else.

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Roofie the guy and film him having sex with a hooker, then show the video to his girlfriend.

It's like you've never sabotaged a relationship before.

Amateurs, man.

[Deleted]

I killed Arthas for a reason.

Come to me, Jaina bby

[Garnier Fructis]

There's really no way it would turn out well, regardless of whether you act selflessly or selfishly. Because even if you're selfish, there's a non-negligible chance that they'll figure out that their breakup was due to your meddling, at which point you basically lose what you gained and end up worse off than before.