Isn't this circular dependency

[SerdarSanri]

@thetutlage I know you are gonna roast me on this but just for my sanity I had to ask. I am trying to wrap my head around something from day one I couldn't understand the logic behind it. I am very sorry for my ignorance on this but if you can explain a bit more on this model to model relationships that would be really helpful. I am on v5 btw.

So for instance I have a User, Role and Permission models. Each has their own structure and share a foreign key. User has a role_id.

UserModel.ts
....
id: uuid;
first_name: string,
last_name: string,

role_id: uuid
...

and

Role.ts
id: uuid;
role_name: string;

when defining relationships in User model you would say

UserModel.ts
@belongsTo(() => Role, {foreign_key: 'role_id'} )
public role: BelongsTo<typeof Role>

but also you can define

Role.ts
@hasMany(() => User, {foreignKey: 'role_id'})
public users: HasMany<typeof User>;

so because we are referring Role in User table we will add import Role from '#app/models/RoleModel then in RoleModel, we would add import User from '#app/models/UserModel
This is the part where I get really confused. Isn't this the textbook definition of circular dependency? Should this kind of relationship definitions be avoided? But if so, how can you get all the users' in a role or role of a user?

Above is not real code but just pseudo to explain what I am trying to understand.