The phrase "affair collapsed" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation or relationship that has failed or come to an end, often in a dramatic or significant way.
Example: "After months of secrecy, the affair collapsed when the truth was revealed to their spouses."
Alternatives: "relationship fell apart" or "situation disintegrated".
The Counterlife is populated with typical Roth characters and fodder: his frequent narrator Nathan Zuckerman and his brother, affairs, collapsing marriages, wrestling with Jewishness.
In the book, there is a brilliantly awful and all-too-real moment when her poor old dad has to go cap-in-hand to the headmistress after the affair has collapsed, begging her to let his humiliated daughter return and sit the Oxbridge exams after all.
As an empirical matter, the decay of the domestic-foreign frontier seems highly ambivalent, since it might easily pave the way for the decay of the more attractive attributes of domestic political life: as "foreign" affairs collapse inward onto "domestic" political life, the relative lawlessness of the former potentially makes disturbing inroads onto the latter (Scheuerman 2004).
In the early stages of the tense affair, Stoycho Mladenov collapsed onto the athletics track surrounding the pitch after being hit by the snowball thrown by Levski supporters, forcing the referee to halt the game for several minutes.
Wagner's uneasy affair with Mathilde collapsed in 1858, when Minna intercepted a letter to Mathilde from him.
A country so thoroughly broken by the whole awful affair that it collapsed in political suicide less than two decades later?
"Things are not like the Taliban predicted, that our affairs would collapse, and there would be disunity," Mr. Registani said.
After 1945 it was apparent that the old system for administering Indian affairs was collapsing, as poverty and disease were rampant on many reserves.
It's a gray mohair affair a collapsed chef's hat in wool, from which a tangle of knitted dreadlocks hang down the wearer's back ($200).
(A heart attack victim is shown overeating after a love affair and later collapsing on the stairs.) But Wyatt's story falls together a little too neatly.
