If you're going to use them as examples... Luke has both been returned here and sent back at least once or twice since then, so I'm not certain how much of a reprieve did occur. If it's even fair to call it that.

[ Although it does make her think of quite a few more of the prominent 'couples'. Jack Sparrow and Buffy. Regal and Gelda. And where did those friends turn for their advice? As if she really knew any better at all about what to do in that kind of situation. ]