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9	->''"Your cheatin' heart will make you weep.''\
10	''You'll cry and cry and try to sleep.''\
11	''But sleep won't come the whole night through.''\
12	''Your cheatin' heart will tell on you."''
13	-->-- '''Music/HankWilliams''', "Your Cheatin' Heart"
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15	Adultery. Two-timing. Seeing someone on the side. Having an affair. ''Cheating.'' Whatever it's called, the act of having a romantic or sexual affair with someone other than one's established spouse or lover has ever been a source of drama in fiction and in real life. It has brought lovers together, but it has also torn lovers, marriages and even families apart, and it is one of the most common reasons for someone to end up killed. These tropes explore infidelity, the forms it takes, and the effects that it has upon people. See also {{Netorare}}.
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17	!!Tropes:
18	[[index]]
19	* AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder: A character starts a relationship with someone else while physically separated from their love interest.
20	* AccidentalAdultery: A character cheated but was [[BedTrick tricked]], [[EasyAmnesia didn't know they were married]], [[ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated believed their partner to be dead]], etc.
21	* AffairBlameTheBastard: Taking out your anger from your spouse's infidelity on the bastard child born of said infidelity.
22	* AffairHair: The discovery of a strand of unfamiliar hair leads to accusations of infidelity.
23	* AffairLetters: Love letters that document someone had an extramarital affair.
24	* AttemptedHomewrecker: A character wants to steal an uninterested person from their lover.
25	* BedTrick: A form of rape by deception where a person tricks another into agreeing to sexual intercourse by impersonating the victim's significant other, in effect tricking the victim into being unfaithful.
26	* BedroomAdulteryScene: An adulterous couple gets caught in the middle of sex by one of their spouses/partners.
27	* BlameTheParamour: A cheated-on character blames the other lover, rather than their cheating partner.
28	* BlamingTheCuckold: A victim of infidelity is blamed for their partner's affair.
29	* BusinessTripAdultery: A cheating spouse uses the excuse of going on business trips to see the one they're having the affair with.
30	* CheaterGetsCheatedOn: An adulterer experiences getting cheated on themselves.
31	* CheatingWithTheMilkman: A housewife has an affair with service personnel that visit the house.
32	* ChocolateBaby: When a newborn infant looks nothing like their "dad", implications that their mom slept with another man soon follow.
33	* ClingyJealousGirl: A girl who won't stand for her partner seeing someone else.
34	* CrazyJealousGuy: The guy who gets mad at the idea of his partner seeing someone else.
35	* CuckoldHorns: A pair of horns used to show that a man's lover has been unfaithful.
36	* ADeadlyAffair: Someone ends up dead, whether it's the perpetrator(s), the victim, or the baggage holding the affair back.
37	* DeathByWomanScorned: A man or other partner does not survive the retribution of their betrayed partner.
38	* EmasculatedCuckold: Having an unfaithful wife is a blow to a man's power, masculinity, and status.
39	* AFamilyAffair: The cheater sleeps with their partner's relative.
40	* GoodAdulteryBadAdultery: In a work with multiple instances of adultery, the adulterer is portrayed sympathetically in one instance and evil in another.
41	* IntramaritalAffair: A couple has an "affair" with each other.
42	* LipstickMark: Lipstick on your clothing, collarbone, or cheek reveals an affair.
43	* LoveForgivesAllButLust: Someone is willing to forgive or deny all their partner's faults or crimes except adultery or wandering eyes.
44	* MalMariee: A young woman unhappily married to an older man, who often cheats on him with a man her own age.
45	* MistakenForCheating: Someone mistakenly believes their partner is cheating on them.
46	** SpysSuspiciousSpouse: A spy's partner mistakes their secrecy for infidelity.
47	* TheMistress: A relatively long-term lover whose partner is married to someone else.
48	* PlotIncitingInfidelity: When the plot of a story is kickstarted by having the protagonist catch their partner cheating on them.
49	* PsychosexualHorror: A subgenre that explores psychosexual development as a subject matter, including themes of sexual development and sexual activities.
50	* RemarriedToTheMistress: A man marries the same woman with whom he cheated on his ex-wife.
51	* ScarpiaUltimatum: A character sleeps with a villain in exchange for sparing their partner.
52	* SecretOtherFamily: A mistress plus kids--a whole second family.
53	* SeductionAsOneUpmanship: A character seduces another character's S.O. to put one over on them.
54	* SerialAdulterer: A character cheats multiple times with multiple different people.
55	* SerialHomewrecker: A character who seeks out romantic or sexual partners who are already in relationships.
56	* SexWithTheEx: In cases where one or both exes have new relationships but still sleep together.
57	* SleepingWithTheBosssWife: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Screwing around with your employer's spouse]].
58	* SteppingStoneSpouse: A partner sacrifices for their spouse only to be left behind for another when fortunes increase.
59	* SympatheticAdulterer: Cheater portrayed sympathetically.
60	* TwoTimingWithTheBestie: One of the more common affair setups is a character's partner cheating on them with their best friend.
61	* TwoTimerDate: A person schedules two dates at the same time and goes between them. Usually PlayedForLaughs.
62	* WomanScorned: A woman becomes violent or otherwise vengeful upon discovery of being cheated on.
63	[[/index]]

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