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This may also apply to close friendships rather than romances, especially in shows featuring younger characters,
[[Knight Templar]] characters are extremely prone to making a Break Up Demand, as is the [[Overprotective Dad]]. If the partner proves resistant to the demand, blackmail, or a verbal / physical attack with a degree of [[Why Did You Make Me Hit You?]], may be used by the person interfering.
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* In the tenth season of ''[[Friends (TV)|Friends]]'', Ross is asked to break up with Charlie by Charlie's old boyfriend in return for a very important research grant. In the end, Ross loses Charlie (because extortion is so romantic), and we never learn if he got the grant.
* There's an episode of ''[[Sex and The City]]'' where Samantha is going out with a man whose sister tells her that she's not comfortable with her brother seeing a white woman. Eventually Samantha breaks up with him for not standing up to his sister.
* In Season Three of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', Buffy's mother, Joyce, demands that Angel stop seeing Buffy because of his curse and the likely outcome of their [[Mayfly
* In ''[[Merlin (TV)|Merlin]],'' Arthur got this from Uther in the third season...Morgana found out they were going on a picnic and led Uther right to it, leading to Uther wanting to banish Gwen because she wasn't royalty. It took a big turn from there with the whole framed for enchantment thing, but it still counts.
* In the ''[[CSI: NY]]'' episode, ''Blood,Sweat and Tears,'' the couple are from two rival circus families, and they make a suicide pact after their families tell them to break up. But then only the guy went through with it and later the body was dumped.
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