"It was kind of— it wasn't just one thing, yanno. The whole ~you're trying to control my life~ thing wasn't not a part of it but our lives were also just... going different ways? We made a go of it for a while after uni finished, but he wanted to pursue lawyer stuff and I didn't know what I wanted to do and then my parents died and..." she blows air and waves a hand vaguely. "Easier to split up than keep tryna force our lives into the shapes they used to be."

Which doesn't make it any less... complicated, emotionally, and maybe if those other issues hadn't been lurking under the surface they'd have tried to make it work, but... well, here they are. Even if Alice still wishes it had been different.