>>84182664 Scott and Jean didn't work because they got together, fell in love, as teenagers. They aren't those two teenagers anymore.
People grow and change, sometimes a Hell of a lot, sometimes they become completely different people in the span of a few years, or even overnight, and in these comics that has been literal.
Jean left Scott behind. She wasn't that girl anymore.
Scott and Emma, however, had met each other at a time in their lives when they lined up in certain ways, each needing the complementary aspects of the other, and for a time they grew and changed while still complementing each other. They made each other better.
Then Scott had to go and change again and become this marked man and things turned bad and Emma stuck it out longer than anyone, but ...
Some changes can kill some relationships DEAD.
(well, unless both people change)
