Sure, you asked them "do you want a divorce or not?" and they said no... and then five minutes later you turned into coked up compulsive-obsessive self-harmers with about as much vision and future planning as some kind of sober raging alcoholic or Watford Football Club... maybe only fair to ask...
Not sure there was anything in the agreement between Russia and Ukraine, in the Roman Empire or in the Ottoman Empire that said "you can come and go as you please". Yet that happened, and I don't see that many in here proposing that the Russian Empire/Soviet Union or the Roman Empire should be...