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Contrast [[Second Love]], [[The Mourning After]], [[You Have Waited Long Enough]], [[I Will Wait for You]].
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== Anime/Manga ==
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* Calypso didn't wait for Davy Jones in ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]''... {{spoiler|but Elizabeth did wait for Will}}.
** According to [[Word of God]], this allows {{spoiler|Will}} to be with {{spoiler|Elizabeth}} as much as he wants, as long as the job is still done. The "one day per ten years" rule does not apply to faithful couples, it seems.
* In the ''[[Spawn]]'' movie, the title character comes [[Back From the Dead]] [[Like a Badass Out of Hell]], and finds out that his girl married his old partner. He's somewhat perturbed by this. The partner, meanwhile, is scared shitless... but really, wouldn't YOU be? Ex-boyfriends are bad enough when they aren't undead [[Anti
** In the end, {{spoiler|he gets over it, and even notes that "they belong together" after seeing how happy they are when they are reunited.}}
* In ''[[The Princess Bride (Film)|The Princess Bride]]'', Buttercup doesn't wait for Westley (although she doesn't so much ''move on'' as give up on love and consent to a loveless engagement). He was presumed dead, but he seems to think she should have waited for him anyway.
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* [[Peter Pan]]'s mother gave up waiting for him to come home, and when he went back the window was closed and there was a different boy in his bed. Of course in Peter Pan's case, he could have returned at any time, so really he's the jerk for letting his mother think he was gone forever.
* In Dave Duncan's ''A Handful of Men'' series, the wife of the Imperor (not a typo) thinks her husband has died while they were all on the run from the Bad Guys, and she ends up falling for (and marrying) another man. When he shows up again, things are a bit awkward.
* [[Harry Turtledove]]'s ''[[
** Worth pointing out, the husband was shown to be a good and loving man, but he got put through a [[Humiliation Conga]] ''par excellence'' in the meantime and thus is in no mood to be rational when he finds out. He ends up developing a persecution complex and deciding that the best way to punish everyone who he feels wronged him (including his wife) would be to betray humanity.
** Further, the only reason the woman and "other man" hooked up is because they were in the middle of an air raid and have [[Glad to Be Alive Sex]]. Eventually he admits some of this to his son, but is still too embarrassed to tell the whole story and confesses that had she not gotten pregnant, the woman involved would most likely have gotten back with her husband.
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* Happens to Marco's father in ''[[Animorphs (Literature)|Animorphs]]''. His wife (Marco's mother) disappeared two years before the beginning of the series, and everyone believed her to be dead. He got married again in book #35, and then, as soon as book #45, he found out that Marco's mother was alive. This was, as you would expect, stressful for him. But he didn't face any kind of [[Love Triangle]], since his new wife, having been captured by the Yeerks, was [[Not Himself|not herself]], and being with her wasn't an option.
** Also, Marco lied to his dad, saying that the new wife had always been a Yeerk, and had started dating him only as an opportunity to lead him to the Yeerks.
* Given an interesting twist in David Eddings' ''[[Belgariad]]''. Garion grew up on a peaceful farm, with his somewhat dim-witted best friend, and the flirtatious girl next door... who became the object of both their affections when they grew a bit older, a fact that she enjoyed immensely. Then, Garion get swept up in this whole 'save the world from an evil god' quests, leaving the farm behind, and quickly maturing into a bona-fide, [[Magic Knight]]-style hero. Then, 'bout halfway through his quest, the party swings by the old farm, and he finds that his friend married the girl... said friend, however, is terribly impressed with Garion's new heroic profile, and apologizes for snatching up the girl in his absence... and the girl is both ready and eager to dump him to run off with the new and improved Garion, too. Unfortunately for her, Garion's found himself a [[Tsundere|fierce-tempered]], [[Heroes Want Redheads|red-headed]] [[Well, Excuse Me, Princess!|Princess]] while out and about, and while he still cares for his old girlfriend, he carefully hides it to make sure she'll stick with the steady guy. Besides, he's got a destiny to catch up with...
** 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.
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== Video Games ==
* You. [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|Yes, you]] in ''[[Mass Effect 2 (Video Game)|Mass Effect 2]]''. Assuming you romanced Kaidan, Ashley, or Liara (none of whom will join you in your adventures the second time around) in the first game and they survived only for you to choose to romance a different person in the second game, it's this. ''Particularly'' if you start a romance with one of the new love interests ''before'' meeting your old flame for their [[One
** While you were {{spoiler|dead}}, Kaidan's friends convinced him to begin seeing a doctor, since it's not like most guys expect their ex-girlfriends to {{spoiler|come [[Back From the Dead]]}}. It's also eventually revealed that {{spoiler|he still wasn't over you, which is why your reunion on Horizon goes so badly}}.
{{quote| '''Kaidan:''' {{spoiler|I'd finally let my friends talk me into going out for drinks with a doctor on the Citadel. Nothing serious, but [[The Mourning After|trying to let myself have a life again]], you know? [[Wham Episode|Then I saw you, and everything pulled hard to port]].}}}}
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* A man frozen in ice in the ''[[South Park]]'' episode ''Prehistoric Ice Man'' returns to find his wife has remarried and had two children with her new husband, who are eight and thirteen. He's understandably confused since he was only gone for three years...
{{quote| '''Wife''': I waited for you to come home for over three days! I, I remember how cold and lonely the nights got. By the fourth day, I knew I had to move on.}}
** Oddly enough [[Based
* Done for laughs in the ''[[Futurama (Animation)|Futurama]]'' movie ''Bender's Big Score''. Hermes's body was damaged and would take a week or two to repair while his head was kept alive in a jar. His wife Labarbara said that a week was too long, so she ''immediately'' hooked up with her ex-husband Barbados Slim. All this over Hermes's vocal protestations.
* In [[Spawn]]: The Animated Series, the title characters comes back from the dead to find his wife remarried to his best friend. In a subversion, it turns out that {{spoiler|he has partial amnesia, and recovers the memory of specifically asking his friend to "take care of" his wife if anything were to happen to him.}} It's unclear whether he specified the sexual aspect...
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