Just an addition to my comment earlier. See I when I started playing the Witcher I had an open mind in regards to Yennefer, it was mostly curiosity as to how she would turn out to be. Even was a little disappointed when their meeting was so short, I wanted for them to have a nice reunion. Anyway, I liked her and was intrigued about how her arc would play out.
Then I had my adventures in Velen, which I enjoyed a lot, and as I was finishing I was getting kind of anxious about how the meeting with Triss would turn out to be. As I was playing the game I had remembered the events in W2, so more than the one with Yennefer, in my mind the real reunion was coming. Hell, in the let's-talk-about-the-past part I had even decided not to lift a curse on a dragon in case that somehow messed up my chances with Triss.
Gotta say I felt pity for Triss at the beginning, both for Geralt leaving her (it just says that "she parted with somebody very dear to her" so I assumed that's what happened) and because of the whole situation with the mages. As the story progressed though, and they reconnected, idk, it was just so well done. Special kudos to whoever designed those scenes, they were superb. Incidentally I recalled one of the trailers, in which a woman was speaking and said something about love and I'm pretty sure they played the scene where Geralt is lifting Triss up. Even the smallest details were good, like Triss' banter about how nice it is to have somebody who she can rely on while they are clearing the sewers. I could go on and on about this, but to cut it short I went with the three words and after a couple of quests I left for Skellige.
Time to see Yen. I wondered if Geralt would mention any of the events that had happened in Novigrad or if he would just play dumb. Turned out the later was the case with his automatic flirting and I said to myself, whatever, it's just a game and they haven't seen each other in forever so let's see how this goes. Plus even if he was gonna end up with Triss, I felt they deserved their reunion/goodbye of sorts.
I have to say her arc was beautiful, especially her last wish quest. I even said yes to confirm my feelings because, I was, at that point, convinced that Geralt truly loved both women. Yes, it was wrong but both of them had really managed to reach my heart. "I'll deal with the consequences later" I thought. Next day I had to work so I surfed the forums and was spoiled as to what those consequences would be. If a choice had to be made, then it had to be Triss. I decided to explore Yen's arc fully in my next play through since I had left like half the sidequests undone anyway.
Upon returning home, I reloaded the game and felt like sh.t for breaking Yen's heart. Her sadness was so touching. It reminded me of a similar situation in which I had to break up with a gf in rl because I had fallen for another (and like in the game, against any fantasies I might have held, they would have definitively not shared). Upon returning to KM, however, I found out that unlike RL, instead of moving on Geralt was going to stay with his, rightfully so, annoyed ex gf. And the girl I had agreed to meet was nowhere to be found. His pals even asked about why Yen was in such a foul mood and Geralt explained he had broken up with her, yet weirdly enough there was no option to add in his reasons. Then the whole scene with the lifting of the curse happened and I was sent on my way again.
That started to rub me off somehow, after all, saying no to Yen had not been easy and now I wanted Geralt to have his reward in the form of tender moments with Triss. And so I waited. And waited. And after seeing Yen so many times it hit me that something was very wrong there. The world didn't care, Triss was nowhere to be found, no references whatsoever. Then I started to resent Yen just because of that, completely unrelated to actual story reasons. Anyway our thoughts on the matter had been posted well enough here, so I won't dwell on that.
The thing is though, I'm starting my second play trough now and I realized I am still annoyed at that short encounter with Yen at the beginning, but for entirely different reasons. I want an option for Geralt to tell her to f..k off when she mentions Triss, instead of "Yen, I lost my memory." I had decided this was going to be my Yen playthough but now I'm not so sure I'll be able to cope with it. There's still plenty of game around though, so I'll just focus on that.
Tl;dr: Even though I had liked Yen at the beginning, after seeing how they shoved her in our face at the expense of Triss , and how our choices didn't really matter in that regard, I don't like her that much anymore. Anybody else went through the same?