Yeah, that is an option.
When I was 22, I had been dating this chick for about a year and a half. Living together (like an idiot). That whole deal. We were at a sales conference, sharing a hotel room, and had been bickering for a few days (the relationship was one of those that you knew you needed to end a long time ago, but were an idiot). So, everybody is out at a bar one night. I'm drinking with some buddies. She's doing pissed off GF stuff. At some point, I notice she's not in the bar anymore, and head back to the hotel room. I walk into the room to catch them mid ####### stroke. I calmly head over to her luggage, find her checkbook, and have her write me a check for the $700 she owed me. Both of them still naked in the bed. No violence. Didn't even raise my voice, though I really did loathe the son of ##### she was banging.
I had an idea what what I might be walking in on when I opened the door, and when I saw it, some part of me knew this was probably what I needed to actually end this horrible relationship.
The check never cleared.