Talk:The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Guide to Romance/@comment-73.109.57.6-20170711130725/@comment-81.153.65.237-20171003224601

I don't buy that Triss was trying to make Geralt forget Yennifer just so she could have him. I mean yes, she didn't tell him about her after the memory loss but she also didn't mention Ciri, Dandelion, Zoltan or Regis, none of whom were any kind of romantic competition. And for that matter Vesemir, Eskel and Lambert never brought up any of them either. Seems to me that they all agreed that the best course was not to overburden Geralt with trying to live up (or down) to their stories of who he had been but rather let him build his own identity as who he is now. Which is exactly what Triss explains to him in the first game.

It's also worth noting that at that point Triss had every reason to think Yennifer was dead so it's not as if she was purposefully keeping him from her. Indeed once she knows Yennifer is alive she immediately pledges to help find her and assumes Geralt will choose to be with Yennifer, being astonished and overjoyed if he chooses otherwise. A marked contrast with Yennifer who seems to assumes she's entitled to Geralt no matter how she treats him.

As for the lonely path being the "right" choice, don't buy that in the slightest. Why Geralt in no way growing as a person is seen as a preferable option makes no sense at all to me. As TVTropes would put it he has long since Earned His Happy Ending one way or another.