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* Cmdr. Ed Straker from ''[[UFO]]'' destroyed his marriage over building and maintaining SHADO.

* [[The X-Files]] is this trope. Mulder is obsessed with his work, so much so that he can't even fathom a relationship or even many friendships outside of it. His one goal in life is to expose the Truth and find out what happened to his sister. Scully starts off with somewhat of a personal life and even goes on a date in the first season, but eventually becomes just as entangled in the work as Mulder. This ''is'' somewhat of a [[Justified Trope]], however. The [[Myth Arc]] cases aren't something that can easily be left in the office each night, and the line between work and personal life is obliterated. Especially when Mulder and Scully start getting abducted, their apartments are bugged, and are almost murdered several times in their own homes. Scully once acknowledges this self-destructive lifestyle in season six, asking Mulder if he ever just wanted to "get out of the damn car and live something approaching a normal life?" Mulder's reply? "This is a normal life." Also, work/personal life get even more entangled when {{spoiler|their son becomes the first gested human/alien hybrid, and thus all of the [[Big Bad]] villians from their work would like to kidnap him and/or kill him.}}

 

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