Line #32 PlayingWith/SleepingSingle

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1	'''Basic Trope''': A married couple sleeping in two separate beds.
2	* '''Straight''': Alice and Bob are a couple who have their own beds.
3	* '''Exaggerated''':
4	** Both members of the couple have their own bed''room''.
5	** Both members of the couple have their own ''house''.
6	* '''Downplayed''': Both members of the couple sleep in separate beds, but they're placed so close to each other that they might as well be one bed.
7	* '''Justified''':
8	** One of them has a tendency to hog the sheets.
9	** The couple live in a society where it is unusual for people to share a bed.
10	** The couple live in a rented room that is occupied by two single beds.
11	** The couple sleep separately for medical reasons.
12	** The couple live in a house that has several bedrooms, but each bedroom is too small to fit a bed that's large enough for two people, so they don't have a choice.
13	** Alice and Bob going through some relationship issues.
14	** The couple just prefer to sleep separately and only get in bed together to have sex.
15	* '''Inverted''': ThereIsOnlyOneBed
16	* '''Subverted''': The couple is shown to have two beds, and then both get into the same one.
17	* '''Double Subverted''': However, it was only to better warm that bed up
18	* '''Parodied''':
19	** The couple have "HisAndHers" everything, from sinks to telephones to front doors.
20	** Each person sleeps in separate houses that are on opposite sides of the country. Or in a different country.
21	* '''Zig Zagged''': Sometimes, they sleep in the same bed, other nights they sleep separated.
22	* '''Averted''': The couple sleep in a bed that comfortably fits two people.
23	* '''Enforced''': The show is created in a time/place where airing pictures of two people in the same bed is considered improper.
24	* '''Lampshaded''':
25	** The set designer for a ShowWithinAShow mentions having to make room for two beds.
26	** "So...your bed or mine tonight?"
27	* '''Invoked''': One character, seeing how happy the couples in 1950s sitcoms are, suggests to their spouse that they adopt a two-bed lifestyle.
28	* '''Exploited''': ???
29	* '''Defied''': One character, knowing their spouse would try to make them live in this style, makes sure their bedroom is too small to accommodate two beds.
30	* '''Discussed''': ???
31	* '''Conversed''': ???
32	* '''Deconstructed''': Alice and Bob are unable to have sex due to their never sharing a bed.
33	* '''Reconstructed''': Alice and Bob find a way to have sex despite their never sharing a bed.
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39	%%* '''Implied''': ???
40	%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
41	%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???

Context PlayingWith / SleepingSingle