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[[Alice and Bob]] have been growing closer and closer, possibly leading up to a [[Relationship Upgrade]]...only there's a problem: [[Wrong Guy First|Alice's ex, Charlie]]. No, it's not that Alice is still in love with Charlie, it's that the fallout from her relationship with Charlie has left her with [[Silly Rabbit, Romance Is for Kids|serious emotional baggage]] that must be worked out before [[Second Love|any new relationship]] can succeed. Can also happen when Charlie is dead and Alice still has grief issues to work out. Will often culminate in an [[Epiphany Therapy]] session between Alice and Bob, where Alice spills all her baggage.

 

If the emotional baggage is not worked out, Alice and Bob may become an [[Anchored Ship]].

 

== Anime and Manga ==

* ''[[Fruits Basket]]'': Hatori's past relationship with Kana has this effect on him, and oddly enough, somewhat on Mayuko, his new flame, as well, since she was Kana's best friend, and was clearly a [[Shipper on Deck]], even though she was in love with Hatori the whole time.

** And as many readers fail to understand, {{spoiler|when they do get together, it's not just because Godai has matured from a boy to a man, but because Kyoko has worked through her baggage with Soichiro enough to be able to fully pursue a relationship with someone else. Also, a big point of Godai's maturation is recognizing this trope; Kyoko may be over Soichiro enough to be able to get with him, but she'll never fully be over him, and he'll have to accept that if he wants to be with her.}}

* ''[[The Wallflower]]'': Sunako being cruelly rejected by her first love was what caused her to retreat to the darkness in the first place and is still one of the issues (though certainly not the only one) keeping her and Kyohei an [[Anchored Ship]].

* ''[[GE - Good Ending]]'' has the main female character [[Broken Bird|Kurokawa]] repeatedly plagued by the shadow of her ex-boyfriend, which keeps on haunting her even after she successfully gets together with Utsumi.

* ''[[High School DxD|Highschool Dx D]]'' has the protagonist Issei unable to even think that the girls in his harem love him at all despite them even outright doing things in front of him, short of sex, is because he still has the scars from his ex-girlfriend. Specifically, the ''get killed by his first girlfriend'' and said girlfriend was ''bored of him''.

 

 

== Film ==

* ''[[Enchanted]]'': Robert's divorce effectively killed his belief in romance until [[Manic Pixie Dream Girl|Giselle]] came along.

* ''[[Just Like Heaven]]'' had the grief variant with David's wife's death keeping him from forming any new relationships. Elizabeth ''thinks'' it's the first variety at first, and mocks him over his inability to get over being dumped.

* In ''[[Dexter]]'' Dexter and Rita's relationship is slowed by her [[Broken Bird]] status due to her [[Domestic Abuser|ex-husband]]. Unusually for this trope, Dexter chose to date her because of this as it left her, like him, uninterested in sex.

 

* ''[[Megatokyo]]'':Erika's past with Hitoshi made her the [[Broken Bird]] she is today, and caused serious problems when she and Largo began to strike up a relationship.

** Lately, Kimiko seems to be insinuating that Piro's past with Miho will have to be resolved before the two of them can move forward.

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