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* LoveCannotOvercome: When Lydgate and Rosamond have serious money troubles, it fractures their relationship, and Lydgate realizes to his heartbreak that their love for each other isn't strong enough to bear up under the prospect of poverty, much less the real thing. Rosamond's affection for him rapidly cools when they have a real argument and he gainsays her about something important to her. Eventually they recover from being in outright conflict, and Rosamond ultimately avoids cheating on him, but they're never again really in love (and there's a strong sense that the only reason they stay married at all is that it's the 1800s and divorce is the nigh-unthinkable nuclear option). After Lydgate dies relatively young, Rosamond refers to her first marriage for the rest of her life as a trial she put up with to deserve her wealthier second husband.

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