This! I just made a comment way down about the fact that this does not have to mean the end of any pairing unless fandom take it upon themselves to actually kill it. Different fandoms have and continue to bring people back from the dead for love and in a multitude of ways, I'm sure that we can manage to get two (or four) dudes in different bands to meet up and smooch when they aren't touring, or hell, call each other for sweet talk when they are. We have become way too comfortable in bandom and gotten used to getting everything served on a silver platter. Boys can still love each other and have sex without living in each other's pockets 24/7. And GSF was around long before bandom and it's tendency to read "group" as "band", people can still be polyamorous and have group sex without being joined at the hip.

Sorry for pretty much repeating your comment back at you in my words, I'm just so glad to see someone else express this opinion. I don't want fandom to take this split as the end of all pairings not Spencer/Brendon and Ryan/Jon +/- any eventual new band members.