When should pivot table models in Laravel be used?

I'm having a tough time wrapping my head around a problem that I believe requires me to turn a pivot table into a model. Assume there are two tables:

• Group (which has a pivot table group_members, which takes into account different types of users, etc)
• Notifications

Now, the relationship I wanted to model was between Notifications and group_members, as many group_members can be the recipient of a notification, and a many different notifications can be sent out to a particular group_member. This seems to require another pivot table: notification_group_members.

So, really, what it seems to be is that I have a relationship between two pivot tables. I'm not sure if this is a modeling issue, as it seems to be a little odd to create models of pivot tables. The documentation says that generally you wouldn't be doing that. Is this one of the cases where it would make sense to?

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