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It's a given that soap couples are never happy for long, so we weren't surprised when the engagement party of ALL MY CHILDREN's "It" couple, Leo and Greenlee, turned out to be a fiasco. But despite the dark cloud that had been looming over the duo, we weren't prepared for the inevitable breakup to be quite so painful to watch.

   Leo and Greenlee can both be shallow, bratty and desperately in need of a crash course in Morality 101 at Pine Valley U. But none of that mattered as you watched Leo crouch at Greenlee's door, peeking underneath for a glimpse of her and imploring her to speak to him. "I love you. Come on, baby. Just let me see you, please. Let me look at you and tell you I love you so you can know. Greenlee? If you need to hurt me, I understand, but don't close the door on us, please. Don't walk away from what we found together."

   Anyone who's endured a nasty split had to reach for the Kleenex as Josh Duhamel (Leo), red-faced and rumpled (and always in the moment), banged his head in frustration against the wall and then burst his way in through the door.

   Not that Greenlee was there to see any of it. In the wake of: a) party crasher Katerina announcing that Leo was her ex-husband and has run off with her money and b) discovering that Leo hit Pine Valley looking to fleece her, yoo, Greenlee fled to the roof, where she swilled champagne straight from the bottle.

   As Leo was roaming the loft pathetically sniffing one of her sweater (yeah, it sounds kind of creepy, but it was heartbreaking), Greens was having a Sylvia Plath moment. Jake found his missing roommate precariously perched on the roof's ledge, and viewers got to see what a lost soul Ms. Smythe really is beneath the lady of the manor act. When Rebecca Budig's (Greenlee) doe eyes well up with tears, you can't help feeling sorry for her.

   "I ordered monogrammed towels. G.S.D.--Greenlee Smythe du Pres. Is that the stupidest thing you ever heard? What am I going to do with them now?" she asked Jake, her voice quivering with bitterness, self-depreciation and angst.

   Ultimately, Leo did track down Greenlee, who sneered:"I was the girl who invited the wolf inside my door. I didn't even have time to cry wolf before you ripped my world apart. So, you can huff and you can puff, but I am not letting you into my life again, and I won't listen to any more of your lies."

   Now that's writing.

   Leo offered a prenup and begged her to marry him, but she insisted, "You don't know what love is. And you know what? Neither do I. Bottom line, Leo, with or without my money, there is no happily ever after for us."

   Happily ever after is a relative thing on soaps, but here's hoping for the fairy tale.