Destructive
Destructive adjective - Causing or tending to cause destruction.
Heartbroken and destructive are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Heartbroken" instead an adjective "Destructive".
Heartbroken
Heartbroken adjective - Feeling unhappiness.
Destructive and heartbroken are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Destructive" instead an adjective "Heartbroken".
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Fan portrayals play the situation for horror or drama as needed, and can vary from a sympathetic Flandre being locked away by her domineering older sister to a secretly-heartbroken Remilia forced to cage a psychotically destructive Flan for her (and/or the world's) own good.
Source: Madwoman in the Attic -
Bojack Horseman's miserable and self-destructive lifestyle (for lack of a better term) had caused many of his friends, lovers, colleagues, and the like to be let down, screwed over, heartbroken, pushed away, or even dead (just to name a few).
Source: Toxic Friend Influence - This is very definitely a Destructive Romance (if indeed "romance" is even vaguely the right word,) and it ends up with her getting Valmont killed (which leaves her heartbroken,) and her publicly destroyed thanks to Valmont setting her up to be exposed with his dying breath.
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