@Another Movie Addict: I know what you mean. I've gotten quite a bit of backlash because I ship Cordelia/Angel exclusively. I borderline hate Angel/Buffy and found Spike/Buffy incredibly sick considering he'd built a robot of her to screw and nearly raped the real thing.
It's practically Stockholm syndrome and Angel/Buffy was statutory rape in the state of California!
I don't even see how Riley is comparable to either vampire. He was a rebound guy with unhealthy insecurity issues about Angel, who was the dumper and left the fucking city!