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Love Will Lead You Back
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The end of a relationship is hard. What's easier? Believing the lost partner will come back someday. Whether they broke up or the partner is away at sea, lost at war, or even tragically, unarguably dead, this character believes their love with come back one day. If there are other characters around, they are likely to perceive this as denial and encourage her to start seeing other people, but she won't hear of it, because she has to be available when he returns. A popular topic for songs but can be found in other media as well. This is Truth in Television, and can be particularly tragic when Bob is not merely gone, but actually dead. Done well, this can evoke a sense of sadness and an admiration of the character's dedication. Done poorly, the pining character may leave the audience saying "get over it!" Done really poorly, the pining character comes off as a Stalker with a Crush. Compare Love Nostalgia Song, where the narrator reminisces fondly on a past love but has since moved on. Contrast Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder (which this trope can potentially evolve into). See also The Mourning After. |
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Miss Saigon has the duet "I Still Believe" about this trope where both Kim and Ellen sing about their love for Christopher and the hopes he'll return (in Kim's case that he'll literally come back for her, and Ellen wants him to trust and tell her what's upsetting him). | |
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"Every Light in the House is On" by Trace Adkins is about a man whose wife has gone off 'to find herself.' He promised to leave a light on in case she ever decided to come home. When she finally does, she discovers that he's turned on every light in the house (and then some; the front yard is described as lit up like a runway) so she'd know he still wanted her back. A happier ending than this trope frequently gets. | |
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Dollanganger Series: Chris—the eternal optimist—spends the duration of Petals on the Wind (about 15 years) holding out hope that Cathy will come back to him someday. While she tells him to move on, they have a Will They or Won't They? relationship throughout that time, and all the Held Gazes and Longing Looks do somewhat undercut her words. | |
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Ginny Weasley, for Harry Potter, when he goes on his quest during Book 7. Although she was "pretty cut up" about their breakup, as any sixteen-year-old girl would be, she knew perfectly well that Harry only broke up with her because he wanted to keep her safe, and never gave up on him. | |
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This is basis of a good bit of the plot of The Princess Bride. Westley is rather miffed to find that Buttercup fell into despair upon hearing that he'd been murdered by pirates, and asks why she didn't wait for him instead of agreeing to marry Prince Humperdink. When Buttercup protests that as far as she knew he was dead, Westley gently reproaches: "Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while." Buttercup takes this to heart, and through the rest of the film remains calm and secure in her conviction that, no matter the situation, Westley will always come for her. | |
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Averted in Daughter for Dessert when Amanda moves out of the protagonist's apartment. The protagonist is convinced (rightly) that Amanda won’t come back unless he can somehow find her and explain his side of his and Lainie’s story. | |
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Lost: After the plane crash that kicks off the series Rose insists her husband Bernard, who was in the bathroom at the rear of the plane, is still alive even though his section of the plane is missing. Jack assumes she's just in shock from the accident and gently tries to talk her around. In season two it turns out Rose was right, Bernard is one of the handful of "Tailies" who landed on another part of the island and the couple are eventually reunited. | |
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This is basis of a good bit of the plot of The Princess Bride. Westley is rather miffed to find that Buttercup fell into despair upon hearing that he'd been murdered by pirates, and asks why she didn't wait for him instead of agreeing to marry Prince Humperdink. When Buttercup protests that as far as she knew he was dead, Westley gently reproaches: "Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while." Buttercup takes this to heart, and through the rest of the film remains calm and secure in her conviction that, no matter the situation, Westley will always come for her. | |
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Subverted in Twilight, where in the second book Bella is convinced Edward will never love her, never did love her and will never come back... after he said he was leaving for her safety only. In fairness, he did say she would never see him again and would be better off forgetting about his existence entirely. (Though Bella did do a pretty lamentable job of listening to anything beyond the "I'm leaving you forever" part.) | |
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Inverted in The Secret Agreement, where Iori isn't worried about Yuuichi running away from him because his own love will always lead him towards Yuuichi. | |
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Subverted in Washington Square: Catherine starts off feeling this way about Morris, but soon comes to terms with the fact that she had been exploited, and when he does return twenty years later, she has no longer has any interest in him. | |
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Friends: Rachel on Ross marrying Emily: | |
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