Where all ties are dramatically, definitively and even threateningly
cut, leaving the receiving party not only with no
hope of reversal or reconciliation, but causing them to question their most basic beliefs about the closeness of the former relationship and their own sense of
reality within it.
Often neatly reconciled by audacious deus ex machina.
M: "
Hey, is it cool if we talk when you get back from
Mexico?"
L: "I guess so...after all, I haven’t telenovela
banished you yet"