Basic Trope: Although they love them, a character breaks up with their partner because their lifestyle is too stressful/dangerous.
- Straight: Alice is in love with The Hero, Bob. However, because he's constantly out fighting the bad guys, he often misses dates or inadvertently causes Alice to be attacked by the villains. For her safety and well-being, she decides to break up with Bob.
- Exaggerated: Alice is Bob's One True Love, but she is left traumatised after Near-Death Experience and decides they'd be better off apart, moving away, changing her number, the works. However, she never truly moves on from him and they never stop loving each other.
- Downplayed: Alice and Bob go on a few dates and are attracted to each other, but she ends things pretty quickly after finding out about his alter-ego.
- Justified:
- Bob's last Love Interest ended up Stuffed in the Fridge and Alice is understandably frightened of suffering the same fate.
- Bob takes a lot of unnecessary risks with Alice and brushes off her concerns around his lifestyle, making her feel he doesn't take her safety seriously enough.
- Inverted: Bob himself decides that being with Alice is too dangerous for her and breaks up with her.
- Subverted: Alice breaks up with Bob... for a few months. However, she then decides that their love is worth the danger of the villains and they get back together.
- Double Subverted: Alice wants to get back with Bob...only to learn he's already moved on.
- Parodied: Bob is five minutes late to their date after rescuing a cat from a tree and Alice begins lamenting that his hero work is getting in the way of their relationship and considers breaking up with him.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted:
- Although being with Bob can be stressful and dangerous, Alice is willing to put up with it because she truly loves him.
- Alice is also a hero and fights crime alongside Bob.
- Romance is neither mentioned nor present.
- Enforced: The producer wants the writers to remove Bob's Love Interest Alice from the story because viewership is at an all time low. However, the writers don't want to kill her off or else there would be backlash. Their solution is to have the two break up because Bob's lifestyle doesn't suit a normal person like Alice.
- Played For Drama: Bob won't take no for an answer when Alice dumps him. He begins stalking her in an attempt to get her back, eventually culminating in him becoming unhinged and trying to kidnap her. The rest of his crime-fighting crew rescue Alice, but it completely kills any chance of reconciliation, alienates Bob from his friends, destroys his reputation and results in Bob starting his path to villainy.
