'former love' is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it when referring to a previous romantic relationship, for example, "She has not spoken to her former love since they broke up last year."
Then Aristea and Argene (Licida's former love) successively berate Licida.
Then a beautiful half sister of Kaoru's former love turns up: Ukifune.
He also wrote a moving elegy when his former love died in childbirth.
I was surprised that the story did not include one former love interest.
Tim Riggins Taylor Kitschh) weighs his options for the future but is sidelined when a former love returns to town.
The scene in which Mary is reunited with her former love, Jerry Devine (an ardent David O'Hara) is beautifully played.
"That was what made me want to pick up an acoustic guitar", he says, recalling how he abandoned his former love of metal.
One song in particular underscores this mature sensibility: "Winter Was Warm," the lament of Scrooge's former love, Belle, over how he lost her to his pursuit of wealth.
When her former love, Guido (Massimo Girotti), contacts her about a detective's inquiry, the pampered and restless Paola reignites their romance.
A "mermaid" trapped in the fjords, pining for the sea, she is torn between her safe, dependable husband and a former love who arrives unannounced.
But while the recurrent obsession with former love affairs and setting ancient issues straight grows wearisome well before the album's close, it could have been far worse.
