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{{quote|''"Winnie left the next summer to study art history in Paris. Still, we never forgot our promise. We wrote to each other once a week for the next eight years. I was there to meet her when she came home... with my wife, and my first son -- eight months old. Like I said, things never turn out exactly the way you planned."''|'''Kevin Arnold''', ''[[The Wonder Years]]''}}
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== Comic Books ==
* In [[DC Comics]], Stephanie 'Spoiler' Brown has just discovered an unpleasant consequence of [[Faking the Dead|faking your death]] for a
* Bucky in ''[[Ultimate Marvel]]'' plays it more
* A pretty big issue in Shade's and Kathy's relationship in ''[[Shade the Changing Man]]''. While being separated from Shade, Kathy starts up a lesbian affair with their mutual friend Lenny. Shade himself feels guilty about falling out of love with girlfriend on his homeworld.
* The [[Distant Finale]] of the first volume of ''Zero Girl''. ''Ouch.''
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** There's also that if Garion doesn't marry the princess, a centuries-old treaty will be voided and the resulting diplomatic disaster will irreparably sunder the armies of the West at just the exact time all goodly nations need to unify to avoid being crushed by said evil god. Add in that Garion ''is'' falling genuinely in love with Ce'Nedra and vice versa, and that Zubrette's life expectancy would be measured in days if she tried to share the rigors of the quest with Garion, and, well, who can blame him for not wanting to ruin her marriage and then end her life in the same month.
* At the end of [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]]'s ''[[John Carter of Mars|The Chessmen of Mars]]'', Djor Kantos reveals that, believing her dead, he had married another. She's delighted. By [[Cleaning Up Romantic Loose Ends]] that way, he had freed her from [[The Promise]], and she can marry the hero.
* In one of the [[Brother Cadfael]] novels by [[Ellis Peters]], it turns out that the murdered man's wife used to be Cadfael's
* At the beginning of the novel ''[[American Gods]]'', the main character, Shadow, is finally getting out of prison and can't wait to see his wife again. Unfortunately for him, not only did his wife just died in a car crash, but she unwittingly caused said car crash, by giving a blowjob to the driver, Shadow's best friend. Poor guy, especially considering that she was part of the reason he was in jail for the first time. {{spoiler|She then come back as a zombie and try to apologize}}
* In [[Tranquilium]], the female main character falls in love with the hero. The hero is then separated from her for a long time, eventually leading her to reunite with her husband, whom she never got around to divorcing (this turns out to have been the right choice, as they discover they still do love each other after all).
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== Music ==
* Soul song by The Five Stairsteps - "You Waited Too Long"
* British folk song "The House Carpenter" ([[Child Ballad]] #243). It doesn't end
* In the Who's rock opera album [[Tommy]] and in the subsequent movie, the title character's father, Captain Walker, goes off to war and is later declared missing in action and presumed dead. Tommy's mother then remarries. This may have seemed like a decent idea until Captain Walker returns home, and going by the album version kills her new husband or in the film is killed by him.
* The main theme of the song Long Lost Love by Great Big Sea. He leaves home and his sweetheart for work, stays away too long, and eventually he receives a letter saying she's moved on.
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*** On top of that, he thought Kim was dead. Which isn't a wild stretch of the imagination considering Kim was a hooker married to an American GI and she'd just seriously pissed off a North Vietnamese officer.
** This is the tried-and-true ''[[Madame Butterfly]]'' plot.
* ''[[Two Gentlemen of Verona]]'': Proteus is sent off to visit his friend Valentine. He tearfully leaves his beloved, Julia, swearing to be
* In ''Pilgrims Musa and Sheri in the New World'', Musa falls in love with Sheri while his fiancee Gamila is away in Cairo. When Gamila returns, the sparks start to fly.
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A subtrope involves a young man going on an adventure in order to impress the object of his affections, and returning to find that she's become engaged, or even married, while he was away. (Often her choice will demonstrate that what ''really'' impresses her is a man with a steady job who can be relied on to stay by her instead of disappearing off on adventures.)
=== Examples
* ''[[The Lost World (novel)|The Lost World]]'' by [[Arthur Conan Doyle]].
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