The erstwhile lovers unhappy in their personal lives start giving emotional support to each other.

The song is a dramatic ballad, with Inga telling an apparently erstwhile lover that if he comes to her, "then you will know the answer".

Whatever was troubling her, it was not her erstwhile lover.

And she wanted to scorn Gutrich, her erstwhile lover.

Unfortunately for Quark, the space station's security chief was also Quark's erstwhile lover.

She is said to drift slowly to the grave of her erstwhile lover.

By the time his erstwhile lover left the ship he was glad to be rid of her.

"And so very obliging," said Nardoo, another of his erstwhile lovers.

Mary Plunkett revealed all about her erstwhile lover before taking herself to Sydney.

My erstwhile lover with a decidedly ugly blot on his record.