Ex-partner attachment · PG-03

Person claims relationship is over while preserving the ex’s emotional hold

A former partner remains emotionally active after the relationship is supposedly finished.

What this relationship type claims

reuses the mechanism of. A repeatable dramatic device recurs while surface content changes. Distinct from plot-mirror, which aligns a whole sequence of beats.

Read from the other side, the same record says supplies the mechanism for. There is one record here, not two. Chronology rule for this type: Source must predate target. Violation is a hard validation error.

Chronology

The earlier side

Beth tells Lisa she is over Stewart but cannot stand the thought of Stewart getting over her; Dave’s jealousy escalates as Lisa maintains the connection.

The research describes this side rather than quoting it, so no exact script anchor is attached. The episode link above still resolves.

The later side

Britta knows Blade is disastrous yet says she will go to him immediately if he calls and describes him as the reason she does not believe in love.

Described rather than quoted in the source research.

What changes on the way

Mutual dangling and jealousy becomes compulsive return to a destructive ex.

The changed element is part of the evidence rather than noise. A function can move to a different character, a power relation can reverse, several sources can combine, and the same mechanism can produce a different result.

How this record is graded

Scene reading An interpretation even when strongly supported.

The source research wrote this status as: “Secondary structural echo”

Sources

1. Community ↔ NewsRadio Trope, Concept & Dialogue Index, Project research (Google Sheets), 2026-09-22 — row PG-03What it proves: Nothing on its own. It is the project's row-level index of mechanisms, each row carrying its own evidence status.