"This relationship finished some years ago and I apologised at the time, and am still trying to make amends," he said.
It's hard to know when exactly they split up: at one point, Anderton says the relationship finished last summer; another moment, she says it ended in October; later, she implies she finally made up her mind it was over at Christmas.
"Just because Aarti is gone shouldn't mean the relationship is finished," his grandmother said.
He would wait until after the wedding, until the business side of their relationship was finished.
A long-time friend of Trierweiler, 48, Gerschel said: "The relationship is finished, and they have reached an amiable agreement.
Butts identified the Gobi guide as a fossil supplier with whom he had done business, but he said that their relationship had "finished well before 2007".
He said: "When you get to talking to one another through the press and public letters, it's clear that a relationship is finished".
A novelty gift maker in Japan has devised a questionable new way of stopping a relationship from finishing with a "break-up prevention kit" that comes complete with a faulty condom.
She told me she had got through to David that the relationship was finished".
In "Model", the production and inventory system is described, and a relationship between finishing times of processes in both processes is discussed.
