Laravel 5 hasMany relationship on two columns

Question

Is it possible to have a hasMany relationship on two columns?

My table has two columns, user_id and related_user_id.

I want my rela

Answer 1

If anyone landed here like me due to google: As neither merge() (as suggested above) nor push() (as suggested here) allow eager loading (and other nice relation features), the discussion is still ongoing and was continued in a more recent thread, see here: Laravel Eloquent Inner Join on Self Referencing Table

I proposed a solution there, any further ideas and contributions welcome.