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* After Angel left, [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]] had a very hard time moving on. It didn't help that her first attempt was Parker.

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* Ekatrin from the VorkosiganSaga had a relationship with husband that was borderline abusive. Miles has to convince her that things could be different with him. Unfortunately, he decides to approach that task as if it were a covert ops mission...

* In ''[[{{Film/RedEye}} Red Eye]]'', Rippner tries to guess Lisa's reason for her implied solitary nature and distance from men, mockingly asking her if someone broke her heart. [[spoiler:Lisa was raped.]]
* In IceAge, this pops up slightly in the sequel, The Meltdown, when Manny admits that he is finding it hard to love Ellie because of his loyalty to and memories of his FirstLove.

* In Series/{{Doctor Who}}'s television revamp, the Doctor can never seem to get over Rose Tyler. Every other companion he has quickly become aware of her and have a moment when they have a sense of being compared to her. That is, EVERY companion, including temporary ones like Jack Harkness.

-->''I would have given you all of my heart''
-->''But there's someone who's torn it apart...''
-->-'''Cat Stevens'''

Alice and Bob have been growing closer and closer, possibly leading up to a RelationshipUpgrade...only there's a problem: [[WrongGuyFirst 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 [[SillyRabbitRomanceIsForKids serious emotional baggage]] that must be worked out before [[SecondLove 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 EpiphanyTherapy session between Alice and Bob, where Alice spills all her baggage.

* In {{Doctor Who}}'s television revamp, the Doctor can never seem to get over Rose Tyler. Every other companion he has quickly become aware of her and have a moment when they have a sense of being compared to her. That is, EVERY companion, including temporary ones like Jack Harkness.

* ''{{Disney/Hercules}}'': Megara's [[JerkAss first boyfriend]] ''really'' soured her on men.

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

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

* Subverted in the song "Duel" by Propaganda.
--> "The first cut won't hurt at all."

* The primary reason Aribeth is ObliviousToLove in the second chapter of NeverwinterNights is that she hasn't gotten over Fenthick yet.
* Two examples in Final Fantasy VII and its related media. In the original game, Aerith asks Cloud if he'd ever met her first boyfriend who was also SOLDIER First Class. Several side stories in the game provide more information on him and, until her death, each has a clear impact on Aerith. Furthermore, it turns out that [[spoiler: her boyfriend is Zack, who was part of a Shinra experiment along with Cloud and whose history Cloud adopts as his own memories, creating a triangular influence of the ex on a current relationship.]] Later, in Advent Children, Tifa and Cloud become closer, but his remembrance of Aerith is his major driving force.
* In [=~Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood~=], it's possible to unlock Ezio's Repressed Memories of his first love Cristina Vespucci and their relationship, which ultimately does not pan out well.

-->''I would have given you all of my heart''\\
-->''But there's someone who's torn it apart...''\\

-->''I would have given you all of my heart/ but there's someone who's torn it apart...''
-->Cat Stevens

Alice and Bob have been growing closer and closer, possibly leading up to a RelationshipUpgrade...only there's a problem: [[WrongGuyFirst 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 serious emotional baggage that must be worked out before 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 EpiphanyTherapy session between Alice and Bob, where Alice spills all her baggage.

*Two examples in Final Fantasy VII and its related media. In the original game, Aerith asks Cloud if he'd ever met her first boyfriend who was also SOLDIER First Class. Several side stories in the game provide more information on him and, until her death, each has a clear impact on Aerith. Furthermore, it turns out that [[spoiler: her boyfriend is Zach, who was part of a Shinra experiment along with Cloud and whose history Cloud adopts as his own memories, creating a triangular influence of the ex on a current relationship.]] Later, in Advent Children, Tifa and Cloud become closer, but his remembrance of Aerith is his major driving force.