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The LW and her two men sound like the pretentious, psuedo-idealist pony-tailed grad student character in "Good Will Hunting" - remember him? He tried to score brownie points with Minnie Driver and her Ivy League friends my attempting to embarass Ben Affleck's blue-collar character...only to have Will Hunting / Matt Damon expose his alleged intellectualism as fraud.
Here in the my Midwestern town, folks lead much simpler lives. We don't aspire to cure the world's infectious diseases and then give up because, hot damn, that would be selling out to the Man! Nope - we go to med school or nursing school, and then proceed to do the best we can to help people.
We are not necessarily "intensely intelligent", and most of us will never earn a graduate degree in the Humanities or anything else. We are not the elite upper class illuminati.
AND YET: we meet kindred spirits amongst one another, fall in love, and get married. We do not see marriage as tying us down, or as some eeevil patriarchal scam from the (Burning) Man. Sometimes our relationships work out, sometimes they do not - but in the end we try to be honest and caring toward those who have our hearts.
Hell - we don't fret that much at all about the Man, "bourgeoisie" or any of those liberal academic boogeymen.
And we don't get so self-absorbed and egomaniacal that we fail to see that Love is about two people, not just the one gazing infinitely and adoringly at their navel...
Yup - love and life can be simple affairs. Unfortunately, no amount of graduate school or intense psuedo-idealistic intelligence can open the LW's eyes to this. Only good ol' common sense can guide you in the right direction, and that is one trait missing from all three players in this "Triangle".
