Anime & Manga
Rumi and Jin: We're getting a divorce ~! <3
Rumi: (...) It's not that we're not fond of each other... Even now, we really do!
Jin: Oh yes.
Rumi: But it's not a passionate love anymore... more like familiar one, isn't it?
Jin: Even before we got married, we were better as best friends than as a couple.
Rumi: Also, if only one of us had fallen, it'd be like a case of infidelity and extra-marital relationships and it wouldn't be good...
Jin: Oh yeah. But in this case, there's no problem...
Miki: YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!
Comic Books
"[Dick and I] dated for years, all through college. We were good together. [...] I guess we grew apart... grew up. We stayed friends, but I hadn't seen him in years."
Films — Live-Action
"Men and women grow apart, but the journey they share together will always be a part of them."
— Ned Leeds, Spider-Man: Far From Home
Literature
Phèdre: Was she your lover?
Delaunay: A long time ago. [grin] We are well-matched in many ways, but that was not one of them; unless it be that we were too well-matched. If neither will give way in love, it is not pleasing in the eyes of Naamah. [shrug] Still, I do not think either of us gave the other cause for regret.
Delaunay: A long time ago. [grin] We are well-matched in many ways, but that was not one of them; unless it be that we were too well-matched. If neither will give way in love, it is not pleasing in the eyes of Naamah. [shrug] Still, I do not think either of us gave the other cause for regret.
— Delaunay about him and Melisande, Kushiel's Dart
Live-Action TV
"A very long time ago, Sheridan and I were married, for all of about three months. [...] We met fresh out of officer training school. We hit it off, fell crazy in love, got married, realized we'd made a terrible mistake, fell crazy out of love, and split up. You see, in a relationship you gotta take turns being in charge, but we both wanted to be in charge all the time. We had arguments that could peel paint off the walls. But it was over a long time ago. He's not carrying a torch for me, and I'm not carrying one for him. But the bottom line is, he knows he can trust me, and I know I can trust him."
— Cpt. Elizabeth Lochley, Babylon 5, "Strange Relations"
"This isn't a failed marriage. It's a very successful marriage that happened to only last three years."
Grilka: You may not have been the ideal husband, but you are an excellent bartender.
Quark: I know of no greater compliment.
Music
I'm giving you up
I've forgiven it all
You set me free-ee
Send my love to your new lover
Treat her better
We've gotta let go of all of our ghosts
We both know we ain't kids no more
— Adele, "Send My Love (To Your New Lover)"
Theatre
Bobby: You have a great wife there, Peter, and if you ever decide to leave her I want to be the first to know.
Susan: Well...
Peter: You're the first to know.
Bobby: ... What?
Susan: (completely cheerful) We're getting a divorce!
Bobby: (silence)
— Company
Western Animation
Charlene: Vanessa, remember it's your weekend at your dad's place.
Vanessa: Great. A whole 48 hours of evil.
Charlene: Honey, we've been over this. Your father is not evil. No one is. We just didn't get along. We wanted different things.
Vanessa: Was one of those things, being evil? 'Cause he's evil.
— Dr Doofenschmirtz's ex-wife and daughter, in Phineas and Ferb
Trent: Please don't tell me this is what I think it is.
Gwen: (sighs)...It's what you think it is.
Gwen: (sighs)...It's what you think it is.
— Trent and Gwen breaking up, Total Drama Action
Zatanna: How is it again you're still friends with all of your exes?
Nightwing: That's my superpower.
