- Disney Channel has several:
- Lloyd and Barb Diffy of Phil of the Future: They are united when it comes to teaching their children and still go on dates. One such outing was to the original production of Romeo and Juliet in Shakespeare's time. They got dressed up and everything.
- Jerry and Theresa Russo of Wizards of Waverly Place demonstrate realistically how a happy marriage isn't a perfect one. They run a business together while raising three children. This causes tension to rise on a daily basis but they work through it. Case in point: Jerry gave up his wizard powers so he could marry Theresa and hasn't regretted it since.
- Wayne and Diane Szalinski of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Series, though Diane can get understandably flustered by her husband's inventions at times. So in short, their relationship is the same way it was in the movie the series came from
- George and Nora of Life with Derek: The premise of the show is their marriage joining two families together. This causes turbulence and a number of episode plots but at the end of the day they're glad they're together.
- 7th Heaven:
- Matt and Sarah go through a few rough patches, but remain together and in love.
- Reverend Eric and Annie Camden are so happy together that by the end of the series they are still so in the moment that they hide from their own party to be together.
- Kevin and Lucy got married in season seven, and turned out to be even happier in marriage than when they were just dating.
- 18 to Life: Despite occasional spats, Tom, Jessie and both their parents have happy, loving marriages (although theirs is the most difficult at first).
- 30 Rock: Tracy and Angie Jordan, although Tracy has to maintain an Urban Legend Love Life in order to keep his Celebrity Endorsements. It's kind of weird, but, to give an idea, he says that Angela threatens to divorce him if he doesn't have an affair: the image of promiscuity and general "coolness" is what keeps the family afloat, moneywise. As it turns out, he can't bring himself to have an affair; he's just too devoted.
- According to Jim: Jim and Cheryl. Unlike other DomComs that ran during its time, Jim and Cheryl enjoyed a pleasant, equal marriage, with no Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male, Double Standard, or any other things that you watch and think to yourself "why are these two married at all?"
- The Addams Family: Gomez and Morticia Addams. Notable in being one of the first, if not the first, on-screen couples who were passionately in love.
- The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet: Ozzie and Harriet Nelson (or at least the fictional versions thereof), are arguably the ultimate TV version of this trope, being a very understandable and caring couple, in a Standard '50s Parents sort of way.
- All Creatures Great & Small (2020): James and Helen Herriot are deliriously happy together, with any conflict between them coming from outside their relationship rather than within it. Even during the times when they are briefly at odds, it's clear they still love each other unconditionally.
- Babylon 5:
- Sheridan and Delenn, in season 5. They have their disagreements, but nothing ever really threatens their relationship. This despite knowing that Sheridan only has twenty years to live; they seem to have agreed to live in the moment and enjoy every minute they have together.
- Jeffrey Sinclair and Catherine Sakai: their story is told in the canon novel To Dream in the City of Sorrows, and Word of God states that he does find her in the past.
- Battlestar Galactica (2003): Though they go through just as much hell as everyone else, Helo and Athena are happily married with their kid, their love for each other (and for Hera) never wavering. You really get a sense of their trust in each other after Helo fraks Boomer, thinking she's Athena, and Athena doesn't even think about accusing him of anything.
- Bewitched: Samantha and Darrin. Despite all the efforts of the mother-in-law from hell, they stayed steadfastly in love.
- The Big Bang Theory:
- Mike Rostenkowski and his wife: Married for more than 35 years as of the end of Season 11 and despite her being able to control him, they are devoted to each other since she calls him "Honey" and he defends her from Howard when he refers to her and Bernadette as ball-busters.
- Penny's parents Wyatt and Susan. Even though there was a bit of tension between them and we don't see them interact a lot, they stay married, they get on fine and they likely love each other.
- Howard and Bernadette
- Leonard and Penny
- Sheldon and Amy
- The Bob Newhart Show: Bob and Emily Hartley are portrayed as loving and supportive of each other. They have great chemistry and lovingly tease each other when appropriate.
- Bones:
- Starting from the end of Season Five, Jack Hodgins and Angela Montenegro. Hodgins frequently gushes about her, and while Angela does occasionally show signs of attraction towards others, she's nonetheless quite happy with Hodgins.
- Brennan and Booth get together at the end of Season 6 and are very happy together, but don't officially get married until Season 9. They have two kids together and a very stable relationship.
- Breaking Bad: Hank and Marie have a very loving and happy marriage that remains strong despite the rough patches they go through, serving as a contrast to Walt and Skyler, whose marriage is already strained at the start of the show and only gets worse from there.
- Call the Midwife:
- Chummy and Peter go from a sweet courtship in Season 1 to a happy marriage over the next few seasons, including the birth of their son.
- While their first year of the marriage of Patrick and Shelagh Turner had its rough spots as they worked past their time as Star-Crossed Lovers (she was a nun when they met!), they got over it and are basically Medical Superfamily right now, and clearly love each other deeply.
- Charmed: Piper and Leo, when they finally get married.
- Cheers: Woody and Kelly show this trope. Their simple outlook on life and naive natures show them as counterparts that work well together, and they are shown as trusting each other.
- Chicago Hope: Dr. Billy Kronk and Dr. Diane Grad.
- The Chosen: Their marriage isn't free from conflict, but it is clear that Eden and Simon love one another deeply. Simon has a penchant (prior to his calling) for gambling, beating the snot out of her brothers, and has an arc about sneaking out during Shabbat to avoid crushing debt, and Eden has an arc revolving around handling the grief of a miscarriage. But despite these challenges the two survive these ordeals with their relationship intact and stronger than ever.
- Chuck:
- Ellie and Devon "Captain Awesome" Woodcomb don't get married until the end of Season two, but they provide the main stable relationship in the show.
- In the fifth season, Chuck and Sarah qualify too. Until the penultimate and final episode, at least...
- City on a Hill: Decourcy and Siobhan have a loving, stable marriage with both supportive of the other, even if they disagree at times.
- The Closer: Despite Married to the Job tendencies, Jurisdiction Friction and alcoholism, Brenda Johnson and Fritz Howard are still passionately in love with each other. They've had their drama, but there's no doubt that they're it for each other.
- Cobra Kai: Daniel and Amanda LaRusso. They may occasionally have a few domestic disputes, especially in regards to Daniel's beef with Cobra Kai, but their relationship is stable and they are both clearly happy with one another.
- Columbo: Columbo and his frequently mentioned, but never seen wife.
- Commander in Chief: Being the leader of the free world tends to put considerable strain on a marriage — but not enough to shake President Mackenzie Allen and her husband Rod Calloway. Though they argue quite a bit, they always work it out.
- Community: Has Shirley and Andre when they get re-married in season 3
- CSI: NY:
- It got in on it with Danny and Lindsay. They had a tumultuous courtship, pushing each other away repeatedly and Danny slept with someone else (Rikki Sandoval), and there was stress during Danny's stint as a sergeant in early season 8 but things seem great now, especially with Lucy having come along.
- Mac seemed headed this way after proposing to Christine in the series finale
- Desperate Housewives:
- Tom and Lynette Scavo. They do have their turmoil and they're broken up for nearly the entire final season until reconciling permanently in the finale, but they never stop loving each other.
- Mike and Susan are generally happy together during the times when they're in a relationship (and when they're not it's because of some external obstacle, not friction in the relationship.)
- Dexter: Dexter Morgan to Rita by the end of Season 3. Sadly, it ends in tragedy in the next Season, as Rita is killed by the Trinity Killer in the finale.
- Dharma & Greg: Dharma and Greg Montgomery. Most of the comedic tension of the show came from the antics of their friends and parents (who were also happily married). Though, the season nine premiere of Two and a Half Men shows them as a bickering, on-the-verge-of-divorce couple.
- The Dick Van Dyke Show: Rob and Laura Petrie very obviously dote on each other, constantly showing affection, and even when they fight they kiss and make up almost immediately after.
- Earl and Fran Sinclair from Dinosaurs. In "High Noon", Fran is even offended by her mother suggesting she ditch Earl and says to her suitor Gary's face that Earl is the only man she'll ever love.
- Doctor Who:
- "Tooth and Claw": Sir Robert and Lady Isabel MacLeish. When she's held captive by evil monks who worship an alien werewolf, he's asked to commit treason to keep her safe, and he complies quickly, if reluctantly. They kiss several times, she braves the werewolf to save him and the others (she explicitly says she's going to help him if there's even the slightest chance he's still alive), and his last thoughts are of her.
- "Gridlock": Both married couples in the episode get along surprisingly well for having been stuck in small cars for decades. Brannigan and Valerie playfully bicker, and the Cassinis hold hands during the hymn.
- "Voyage of the Damned": Morvin and Foon Van Hoff don't let the ship they're vacationing on getting into dire trouble or Foon having hidden a 5,000 credit phone bill from breaking their marriage.
- "The Fires of Pompeii": Caecilius and Metella seem like a modern stereotype; bickering about household furniture, raising children, he can't find a pin because she's polishing it, and sticking together in tragic times.
- Amy and Rory are a somewhat surprising example in that they appeared to be a repeat of the Rose/Mickey situation, where the woman was more into the Doctor than she was her nominal boyfriend, (however, this could be attributed due to some Timey-Wimey Ball shannigans where parts of her past just vanished, like her parents). The events of "Amy's Choice" made Amy realize how much Rory meant to her and after dealing with the effects of the Time Crack, they are more stable and open with one another and happily married. Between Series 6 & 7, that comes under threat as they nearly divorced, but reunite after they sort out some miscommunication and some help from the Doctor and are still together when they're sent back in time.
- In the finale of series 6, the Doctor is now happily married to River Song. She may spend her days in prison, but the nights... that's between them, eh? Sadly for her, though, they keep meeting up in the wrong order, and younger versions of him have no clue what's going on. Despite the tragedy of knowing how and when she will die, they appear to have a long, relatively healthy open marriage that spans lifetimes. They even get to enjoy 24 years together before she dies.
- In "The Woman Who Fell to Earth", we have Grace and Graham O'Brien. It's her second marriage, but even after three years they're very close and affectionate, even in public. Her death at the climax leaves him absolutely devastated.
- In The Sarah Jane Adventures, Jo appears again and is still happily married to Cliff Jones. She stopped travelling with the Doctor to marry Cliff, and this shows she made the right choice and never regretted it. (Russell T Davies specifically mentioned that he wasn't happy with parts of the Expanded Universe saying she and Cliff got divorced.)
- Dollhouse: This seemed to be the case with the senator and his wife. When he's drugged and possibly raped, his first reaction to the blackmail attempt is to take the call girl to his wife. For once, a person who didn't cheat but is in circumstances that can lead to Mistaken for Cheating does the sensible thing and plans to explain the situation to their SO instead of trying to cover up the non-affair for fear of not being believed. And then, the wife turned out to be evil and possibly not even legally his wife.
- Downton Abbey:
- Robert and Cora Crawley, the Earl and Countess of Grantam, have been Happily Married for twenty-three years. They've actually been married for twenty-four years; it took a while for Impoverished Patrician Robert to fall in love with American heiress Cora after he married her for her money. They suffer several rough patches in Season 2 Robert feels neglected by Cora during the war and considers an affair with one of the maids though he can't bring himself to do it, in Season 3 Cora blames Robert for Sybil's death, but they get back on track and clearly still adore each other. Just look at their faces when Robert surprises her in the Season 4 finale.
- Star-Crossed Lovers Tom and Sybil had it rough but after they finally get married are apparently blissfully happy.
- Despite being put through more troubles than most of the other couples combined, Bates and Anna stay very much in love with one another.
- Family Ties: Steven and Elyse Keaton have some disagreements, but they always work things out. They are not afraid to show their affection in front of others, often to the disgust of their children. That does not deter them, and sometimes spurs them to turn it up a notch.
- Firefly:
- Wash and Zoe. Their marriage is stable and happy, and their sexual chemistry is amazing. They might fight and argue, but they obviously love each other very deeply and they back up one another frequently. Zoe dreams of having a baby together, despite the fact that things are tough in their Crapsack World. At least until The Movie and his tragic death.
- Future-set comics show Simon and Kaylee happy with two kids.
- The Flash (2014): Barry Allen and Iris West-Allen make it official in season 4 and fit this trope going forward.
- Forever:
- Henry and Abigail, for at least three decades; it's unclear exactly when Abigail started becoming unhappy with the age gap.
- Although we only see Sean once, on a video deposition, there's every indication Jo and Sean were this before his death.
- Henry and Nora seem to have been this until after Henry's first death.
- Frasier: Niles and Daphne. After they work through their Unrequited Love Switcheroo thing anyway. They're happy and relatively frictionless for exactly one season (10), then Daphne gets pregnant and becomes an overbearing, hormonal harridan (she seems to be back to normal in the final episode, once her child is born).
- Freaks and Geeks: Harold and Jean Weir. (Series creator Paul Feig said that he intentionally chose for the Weirs to have a happy marriage partly because his own parents had one, but mostly because he was sick of all the dysfunctional parent couplings so prominent on television.)
- A French Village: Jules and Lucienne grow into a happy couple after their marriage (initially to save her from being an unwed mother). Unfortunately, in Season 6 things get bad with them.
- Friends:
- Monica and Chandler in the last three seasons. The universe puts them through a lot early on: a long-distance relationship, unemployment, and infertility, but they remain incredibly happy and adore each other. They're especially impressive given their significant emotional baggage that stacks the odds against them. Namely, Chandler's parent's terrible marriage and home life which caused his Commitment Issues, Monica's insecurity from Parental Neglect and their highly neurotic natures.
- Monica and Ross' parents, Jack and Judy Geller, have been happily married for over 25 years by the time the series begins (they celebrate their 35th anniversary in the Season 8 episode "The One from Massapequa"). In contrast to the parents of the other four main cast members,note they are utterly devoted to each other, and, to Ross and Monica's disgust, still have a very active sex life.
- Phoebe's half-brother Frank Jr. marries his former high school teacher, much to the disgust of the friends. However, in spite of their age gap Frank and Alice actually have a very healthy relationship and Phoebe even goes on to become the surrogate mother for their triplets. They remain together throughout the rest of the series.
- Game of Thrones: Ned and Catelyn Stark seem to be genuinely in love in a world where most marriages (including their own) are arranged for political reasons and have five children together. When Jon Snow's true parentage is finally revealed, it turns out Ned never broke his vows to her and was faithful to her all along.
- Ghost Whisperer: An interesting example is Melinda and Jim, because they are the main couple, the relationships of her friends get barely any attention, they hardly ever fight, they don't have kids, and it's a drama. But then, this show is sap central. This is challenged when Jim dies. He Body Surfs into a dead guy named Sam and gets amnesia. Naturally, he (Jim; Sam "crossed over" immediately after dying) gets better.
- Glee:
- Burt Hummel and Carole Hudson-Hummel. This trope applies to both of their previous respective marriages, they both lost their significant other before finding each other, and their current one.
- Rachel's dads, Hiram and Leroy have been happily married for several years and raised a child together who is the main character of the show.
- Speaking of Rachel, she gets married to Jesse St. James sometimes after the show's ending and they very much appear to be this.
- Kurt and Blaine seals the deal in Season 6 and is shown to be this in a flashforward in the last episode together with the show's other examples of this trope.
- Santana and Brittany finally tied the knot as well in Season 6 together with Kurt and Blaine in a double wedding and similarly are shown to be equally as happily married years later.
- Will and Emma have a small but intimate ceremony in Season 4 in comparison to the bigger wedding they were supposed to have earlier in the show but that fell apart because they didn't feel ready yet. They also go on to have a son together who they named after their student Finn who tragically passed away.
- Good Girls Revolt has Eleanor and her husband, who are very cute, respectful towards each other, obviously happy together, and excited to have a child. This is in contrast to most of the main characters, especially Cindy who feels suffocated by her husband, Patti who's a free spirit, and Jane who has a boyfriend who breaks up with her when she tells him she wants to get married.
- Gossip Girl ends with Chuck and Blair finally getting married, and a flash-forward showing them very happy together and parents of a little boy.
- Green Acres: The Douglases. Despite having vastly differing opinions about living on a farm (especially in season 1), it's made abundantly clear that they really love each other. They're often seen kissing, flirting, and generally being very close. Oliver is very visibly distraught at the end of "The Rutabaga Story" due to the fact that Lisa could've gotten hurt or killed while throwing rutabagas from a hot-air balloon, and Lisa agrees to stay on the farm simply because of how happy her husband is there.Lisa: Darling, I promised Oliver I'm going to stay for six months.
"Mother" Eunice Douglas: Well, maybe he'll give you time off for good behavior.
Lisa: [smiles] I am happy if Oliver is happy. - Grey's Anatomy:
- Owen and Christina, two very damaged people, seem to take that road, thanks to some Character Development of the later in season 7.
- Callie and Arizona. Though they don't appear to be legally married, as Washington State doesn't currently recognize same sex marriages. But they share a good relationship.
- In Happy Days, Richie Cunningham's parents Howard and Marion are shown as happily married and very affectionate with each other.
- Happy Endings: Brad and Jane - despite the fact that they often have (humorous) arguments, their fights never last more than an episode. They're also crazy into each other to the point of being Chivalrous Pervert.
- Tim and Jill in Home Improvement may get into fights every so often, especially due to Tim's macho behavior and obsession for more power, but it's obvious that they are very happy together.
- The Honeymooners: Ralph and Alice are always fighting, but the idea that they might ever break up is as inconceivable as Ralph actually knocking Alice "right to the Moon."
- How I Met Your Mother:
- Lily and Marshall, despite breaking up at one point, are happily married and completely love it that way. They have been together since their freshman year at college. They support each other and complete each other almost perfectly.
- The marriage between Ted and the Mother is presented as being extremely happy. Ted and Tracy are both nerdy and cute and both want children. Until the Mother gets sick and dies.
- I Love Lucy: Lucy and Ricky Ricardo. Although the Ricardos have arguments from time to time, they're deeply in love with one another. Invoked in the title: "I" (Ricky Ricardo) Love Lucy!
- John Adams: The miniseries portrays the relationship between John and Abigail Adams as a very passionate version of this. This is borne out by the innumerable letters that they exchanged and assorted other documentary evidence.
- The Last of Us (2023): Frank and Bill, even before formally becoming husbands, were very loving partners together.
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Elliot and Kathy Stabler. They do break up at one point when the stress of being a police officer's wife gets to Kathy, but they reconcile later.
- Leave It to Beaver: Ward and June Cleaver. Mr. and Mrs. Cleaver seldom argue, and through the show are shown to love and respect one another. Arguably, the Cleavers are shown to be the ideal nuclear family.
- Little House on the Prairie: Charles and Caroline, Laura and Almanzo, and Mary and Adam. The first two couples are based on real people. In real life, Mary never married. Nellie Olsen and Percival. Nellie wasn't a real person. (She was based on three different girls.)
- The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power:
- Marigold is Largo Brandyfoot's second wife, after the death of his first, she became stepmother to his children. They are shown being very in love and supporting.
- Durin and Disa tease each other a lot, showing they're extremely happy together. They have sometimes little Double Entendre exchanges that imply they have a kinky marriage behind the curtains.
- Lost:
- Despite having marital issues for the first season or so, Jin and Sun eventually play this straight, and they even become Together in Death near the end of the series.
- In Season 5's flashforwards we also have everyone's favorite couple Desmond and Penny, now living on their boat with a young son.
- Lost in Space: John and Maureen Robinson. The Robinsons have three children. Although they're stranded many light years from earth, they never argue and seem very much in love.
- Mad Men: Almost all the marriages on the show end badly. Even the couples that work for it don't always get a happy ending.
- Harry and Jennifer Crane are noted as Happily Married from the beginning but then Harry has a one-night stand with Hildy (a secretary) after a typical drunken Sterling Cooper party, and has hell to pay for it when Jennifer finds out. Fortunately for him, she forgives him; he doesn't seem to so much as look at another woman after that (until season 4, when he has apparently morphed off-screen into a bit of a douche). By season seven the marriage is dead.
- Pete and Trudy Campbell get to Happily Married ahead of everyone else on the series (besides Harry and Jenny) after working through (in agonizing detail) Pete's problems with infidelity and adoption. The Campbells dance a most enthusiastic Charleston at Roger Sterling's wedding, and in the end Pete, after his last indiscretion, decides he never wants to be away from Trudy again. After that, he's seen consulting her about serious stuff fairly often (like the decision to hop over to the new Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce). And then in Season 5, he cheats again...but comes to have mixed feelings about it. The move to suburbia seems to have something to do with it. In season 6 they divorce, but they get back together by the series finale.
- Averted with other. Roger and Mona Sterling? Divorced. Roger and Jane Sterling? Shot to Hell, ending in divorce. Joan and Greg Harris? Complicated at best, ending in divorce. Sal and Kitty Romano? A lie. Don and Betty Draper? Divorced.
- Ken Cosgrove is about to get married, just as he's joining SCDP (and thus rejoining the show). Let's watch as the writers make his life totally miserable! Though it appears, when the higher-ups at SCDP try to get him to use his wife to land an account and he shoots it down, that their relationship may actually be based on (gasp!) love and respect!
- Peculiarly, Don and Megan Draper, despite ups and downs, seems to work, not being seriously threatened until literally the last minute of Season 5, at which point it cuts to black, Sopranos-style. In season 6, Megan's acting career puts a strain on the marriage which is not helped by Don cheating on her. In season 7, the marriage is still surviving but only barely and is over by the mid-season finale.
- Madam Secretary: Elizabeth and Henry McCord are clearly established as this from the word "go". Not only are they quite obviously nuts about each other, but there's a wealth of trust between them and, though they do argue relatively frequently and their relationship comes in for some strain from Liz's responsibilities as Secretary of State, they always work it out.
- Malcolm in the Middle:
- Hal and Lois. Notable, because the family is unstable and highly flawed in many ways, but the parents are unwaveringly crazy about each other. The show is unusually frank about their sex life (they make love at least twice a day, on average). It's implied that this is part of the problem with the family dynamic: they don't pay enough attention to their kids because they're so busy with each other.
- Their oldest son, Francis ends up this way, and seems to have inherited his father's sense of devotion to his wife.
- Mama's Family: Vint and Naomi, against Thelma's initial expectations. It's Vint's second marriage and Naomi's third, and they're forced for financial reasons to live in Thelma's basement, but aside from the occasional fight, there's not much friction in the relationship and they remain very devoted to each other throughout the series.
- Married Single Other: The show didn't actually have a Happily Married couple - The original married couple Dickie & Babs had split up & moved on by the end of the series; whilst Eddie & Lillie are happily in a long term relationship, but aren't married. At least until the fifth episode, where they have a rush wedding after Lillie is diagnosed with a brain tumour. Naturally, she dies on her wedding day.
- M*A*S*H:
- B.J. and Peg Hunnicutt. Having to be away from her led to a downward spiral of depression and a campaign of increasingly nasty practical jokes on B.J.'s part. A complete reversal from the characters they replaced, "Trapper" John, who despite being married slept with (or tried to sleep with) every nurse in the camp.
- Sherman and Mildred Potter, which led to him becoming the father figure. And he's a career soldier who's fought in both World Wars and now Korea. Henry Blake, his predecessor, was a solid father to his men as well, but he was a womaniser.
- Trapper sure did sleep around with nurses while in Korea, but his marriage might have been stable for he cared about his wife and their two daughters. His wife was very supportive in her letters; for instance, she absolutely backed him up when Trapper wanted to adopt a sweet Korean boy who was thought to be an orphan.
- Medium: Allison Dubois and her husband Joe have a pretty stable marriage and three daughters. This despite the fact that whenever she has a prophetic dream, she ends up waking him up in the middle of the night.
- Midsomer Murders: DCI Tom Barnaby and his wife Joyce have a pretty stable and happy marriage (unusual for a TV detective). She often gets annoyed when he runs off to follow up clues at a moment's notice, but it never seriously threatens their relationship.
- Mr. Belvedere: George and Marsha Owens. Although the couple argues from time to time (over Mr. Belvedere initially), the two are complementary and it would be inconceivable for them to split-up.
- The Munsters: Herman and Lily. In fact, they have been married for over a hundred years! They set the example of what a healthy marriage looks like. Unlike the usual sitcom couple where the wife and husband hate each other or unrealistically never argue at all, Herman and Lily are openly supportive of each other. Lily encourages Herman and Herman respects his wife's capabilities. They showed you don't have to have a hot-and-sweaty intimate life to be intimate; their relationship was very wholesome. Nevertheless, Mr. and Mrs. Munster were the second TV couple to be seen sharing a bed (the first being Mary Kay And Johnny).
- The Newsreader: Gerry and Carla Carroll are an interesting example. Gerry met Carla while he was a cruise ship entertainer, and by the end of the cruise they were, as he says, "basically married" and he'd moved halfway across the world (from Ireland to Australia) to be with her. They talk gushingly about each other, and never seem to have any arguments. But, as Dale points out, they're marriage is "not conventional", and Gerry especially has lots of extramarital sex, specifically with men. But Carla is supportive of his sexuality, and when he is arrested while Gay Cruising, she is ready to stand by his side and advocate for him.
- No Ordinary Family: Jim and Stephanie Powell have their spats, but there's no denying their devotion to each other.
- The Office (US): Phyllis and Bob Vance, Vance Refrigeration. For now, anyway. It's been heavily implied that Phyllis is cheating. Though it may be part of their kinky lifestyle, which includes: public sex, nudity at work, and goading flirtatious men into fistfights.
- Once Upon a Time: Snow White and Prince Charming & Cinderella and her prince Thomas in the backstory. It's not only in the backstory anymore. The curse is broken in the season one finale and everyone remembers their true identities and all the couples are able to reunite.
- One Tree Hill: Nathan and Haley James Scott. Yeah, they've had their ups and downs, but given they got married in the first season of a long-running soap-opera, while they were in high school, their long-term marital stability really deserves its kudos.
- Our Miss Brooks:
- Osgood and Martha Conklin are very much in love. In the episode "Mr. Boynton's Parents", Mr. Conklin even buys his wife a black sheer negligee for Mother's Day!
- At the end of The Movie Grand Finale, the same applies to Phil Boynton and Connie Boynton nee Brooks. The last few moments of the film sees them leave the zoo arm and arm, and their future home with "The End" superimposed over the shot.
- Parks and Recreation: For all the ribbing he gets from his co-workers, Jerry has been happily married for quite some time: 28 years to his beloved Gayle. As well as Leslie and Ben, April and Andy, and also Ron and Diane. In fact every main relationship in the show is a loving and happy one. By the series finale, Donna and Joe, Tom and Lucy and Ann and Chris have been added to this list as well.
- Pushing Daisies: Ned and Chuck, the Official Couple, though they're not actually married - they couldn't be, as she's dead on paper. They verged on Sickeningly Sweethearts during Season 1; Season 2 has them transition from falling in love to being in love, as they learn to negotiate the rocky parts of couplehood. Little things, like he accidentally killed her dad with his powers. Or she tricked him into bringing her father back as a mouthy zombie. According to Word of God They have a long, loving relationship. Many, many years later they finally kiss when Ned is on his deathbed and Chuck hasn't aged a day.
- Raising Hope:
- Bert and Virginia have been together for 23 years after getting married as teenagers because of Virginia's pregnancy.
- Jimmy and Sabrina, with Sabrina formally adopting Jimmy's daughter Hope as her own daughter. Sabrina's video diary reveals that while Jimmy thinks he's lucky to have met Sabrina, she comments that no, she's the lucky one for meeting Jimmy and his family. And despite all of their own insecurities, Jimmy and Sabrina deeply love each other and help provide a stable home for Hope.
- Revolution: Aaron Pittman and his wife Priscilla before the blackout. He was a rich tech mogul who desired nothing more than giving his wife everything she could possibly want, unaware all she wanted was him. After the blackout, she proved this wasn't just an act by staying with him. But since he had no useful skills in a world without electricity, he left her behind with a group of survivors so he wouldn't hold her back. This is shown in a flashback in episode 6.
- Ruby & the Rockits: Patrick and Audie Gallagher. In fact, it's revealed that they're passionately married, and frequently arrange to meet at home on their lunch breaks to spend quality time together.
- Schitt's Creek: Despite the trauma of their impoverishment and exile, Johnny and Moira Rose remain a devoted and loving couple, offering support to one another at various times of hardship. They also both display jealously when someone else expresses interest in their respective partner, and there are multiple instances of them expressing continued attraction for one another. Their friends, Roland and Jocelyn Schitt, are also happy in their long marriage.
- Scrubs:
- Turk and Carla. Despite a few setbacks along the way, these two have been together since the first season and proceeded to get married and start a family, and seem to be quite happy together.
- Inverted in the case of Dr. Cox and Jordan, who are happy together so long as they aren't married. It was only well after they thought they were divorced that they started a family and when they found out their original divorce was false, their relationship quickly broke down again until Perry decided to ask Jordan to divorce which quickly restored it. It's rather ironic as their relationship is sexually monogamous, they live and raise their two biological children together, and support each other's careers, even if there is a good amount of sarcasm shared between them. They cover most of the standards of marriage without actually being legally bonded.
- From what we've learned in season 9, J.D. and Elliot seem to apply as well, and she's pregnant with their child.
- The Secret Life of the American Teenager:
- Sanjay and Margaret (a.k.a. Ricky's foster parents) have the most solid relationship on the show.
- Jack's mom and stepdad, Madison's dad and stepmom,Grant's parents, Dylan's parents, Leo and Camille and the couple who adopt Kathy's baby as well.
- Sesame Street:
- Susan and Gordon (sometimes, they can even be seen acting like sweethearts.)
- Maria and Luis (their wedding was shown on the show).
- Sex and the City:
- Charlotte and Harry.
- For the most part, Steve and Miranda.
- Slings & Arrows: Frank and Cyril, despite (probably) not actually being married.
- Sherlock: John and Mary.
- Smallville: The Kents, naturally before Jonathan dies. They argue a few times, usually over Clark's most recent alien/superhero issues, but ultimately always support each other and him and work through their issues by talking them out.
- Nearly every gangster in The Sopranos had a girlfriend on the side, which naturally led to some unstable relationships, but a couple were entirely faithful and seemed to have very happy relationships, most notably the sweet and loyal Bobby Baccala and the fiercely protective Johnny Sack, who once tried to put out a hit on someone who insulted his wife's weight.
- Spartacus: Blood and Sand: Batiatus and Lucretia, bizarrely enough, considering that she repeatedly cheats on him with Crixus. Nonetheless, they seem to be deeply in love and totally devoted to one another in every other respect. The cheating was Lucretia's way of giving Batiatus a child to make him happy, so even that shows how much in love they are, as Batiatus didn't say anything about it because he wanted her to have what made her happy in return.
- Stargate Atlantis: Say what you like about Teyla and Kanaan's somewhat Ass Pull of a relationship, they are clearly very happy together, though not actually married, despite the fact that Teyla runs off risking her life every day and a psychopath wants to kill their baby. Those things would usually tend to strain a relationship.
- Star Trek: Voyager: Tom Paris and B'Elanna Torres become a happily married couple in the final season. In the season finale, an alternate future shows them still together nearly thirty years later.
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine:
- Miles and Keiko O'Brien. They were both part of the crew on TNG and got married. They have a daughter together, and look like a happy couple with their fair share of problems, but they stick together.
- By Klingon standards, Martok and his wife Sirella are happily married. Martok's speech about his marriage is one of the few heartwarming moments.Martok: We are not accorded the luxury of choosing the women we fall in love with. Do you think Sirella is anything like the woman I thought that I'd marry? She is a prideful, arrogant, mercurial woman who shares my bed far too infrequently for my taste. And yet... I love her deeply. We Klingons often tout our prowess in battle, our desire for glory and honor above all else... but how hollow is the sound of victory without someone to share it with? Honor gives little comfort to a man alone in his home... and in his heart.
- Worf and Jadzia have a bit of an odd relationship from a human perspective, but they respect each other, and what each one brings to the marriage. They work together well. And when Jadzia is killed, the turmoil it causes Worf, as well as his reaction to the new Dax host- Ezri, point out how strong their love was.
- Star Trek: The Original Series: Spock's parents, Sarek and Amanda, taking into consideration that the former is a Vulcan and isn't supposed to show emotion. It's still clear that he loves his wife.
- Star Trek: The Next Generation:
- Sarek and his second wife Perrin appear in one episode. They are an elderly couple, and they look very much in love. Perrin is especially caring and protective of her husband.
- Keiko and Miles O'Brian. The audience meets them when they are in a relationship and engaged. They get married and have a daughter together. They sometimes argue and have problems (like the one time when Keiko was transformed into her ten-year-old self). They are recurring characters on TNG and not that prominent, but their relationship is steady. Miles is a regular character on Stark Trek Deep Space Nine, where they are also mentioned.
- Step by Step: Frank and Carol start their new life together, and they stay a happy couple. They care about the other and their children, they love each other and lust for each other (Frank more so than Carol of course) throughout the whole series.
- Still Standing: Bill and Judy Miller. They're notoriously bad parents, but they love each other and they genuinely love their kids and try to do right by them.
- Supernatural:
- John and Mary Winchester are presented as a straight case but it then subverted. It turns out that although they did love each other, their relationship was pretty rocky (with John actually leaving Mary at one point when Dean was a child), but that after she died John basically retconned their marriage in the minds of everyone except Dean, who remembers it.Dean: Their marriage wasn't perfect until after mom was dead.
- There are quite a few happily married or mated Monster of the Week pairs. This is especially painful in contrast to the main characters, who can't hold down relationships to save their lives.
- Bobby and Karen Singer are married she died, was briefly resurrected, and doomed to turn into a mindless zombie. Her biggest regret is causing pain to the person she loves.
- John and Mary Winchester are presented as a straight case but it then subverted. It turns out that although they did love each other, their relationship was pretty rocky (with John actually leaving Mary at one point when Dean was a child), but that after she died John basically retconned their marriage in the minds of everyone except Dean, who remembers it.
- Terra Nova: Jim and Elizabeth Shannon. They're committed to each other and their family, and a very good example of humanity amid dystopia.
- Red and Kitty Forman in That '70s Show have ups and down but remain very passionately in love throughout the series. Notably, Red is never shy about admitting he loves his wife, even though he otherwise believes that men should not be emotional.
- The Twilight Zone (1959):
- In "The Hunt", Hyder and Rachel Simpson have had a very happy life together since their marriage almost 50 years earlier.
- In "The Trade-Ins", John and Marie Holt have been married for 50 years and remain very much in love and completely dedicated to each other. They wish to have 100 more years together by transferring their minds into new, younger bodies. However, they only have enough money for one of them to do so. As John is in near constant pain, Marie convinces him to go ahead with the transformation. When he does so, however, John can't bear the thought of Marie still being old when he is young and strong. He has the process reversed so that he and Marie can spend the rest of their lives together. John tells her that she is worth the pain.
- In "Passage on the Lady Anne", all of the couples who have traveled aboard the Lady Anne have had extremely happy marriages. Millie McKenzie credits the ship with enhancing her love for Toby, her husband of 53 years, and believes that every other couple onboard owes the Lady Anne a similar debt.
- We Are Lady Parts:
- Amina's parents are an endearingly awkward but loving couple who are unerringly supportive of her.
- Bisma and her husband Wasim have a loving marriage and act as a stable Beta Couple to the others. They also have a daughter that their friends adore.
- The West Wing:
- Jed and Abbey Bartlet. note All in all, they were very happy given the kind of hell being President and First Lady puts on a marriage.
- Matthew and Helen Santos are also mutually devoted to each other and so enthusiastic in the bedroom that they actually end up breaking a hotel bed on the campaign trail.
- What We Do in the Shadows (2019) has Laszlo and Nadja. They bicker very often, but are ultimately devoted to one another; Laszlo will kill you if you make Nadja sad while Nadja will call off a romantic tryst (it's an open marriage) to go and bail Laszlo out of trouble. It's also shown that despite their arguing, Nadja is miserable when she's separated from him.
- White Collar: Peter and Elizabeth have one of the most adorably functional relationships on TV. In fact, they're so happily married that when Peter has to flirt to get information from a source, Elizabeth finds it hilarious and actually helps him come up with some pick-up lines. At one point, they briefly get snippy with each other about dry cleaning, which is viewed as the kind of catastrophe an affair would be in any other marriage.Elizabeth: (visibly upset) The last thing I said to him before he left was 'Have a wonderful day.'
Mozzie: I'm guessing in an argument about dry cleaning that's pretty serious. - Women's Murder Club: Claire and Ed are shown to be married, and while they do have some issues due to him now being in a wheelchair, the episodes go out of their way to show that the two are hopelessly in love and will always work it out.
- You Me Her:
- Jack, Emma and Izzy, despite many bumps in the road, love each other, ending up with a happy marriage.
- Carmen and Dave, in spite of the spats they have, are also happy together.
- Young Sheldon: George’s co-coach Wayne Wilkins and his wife Darlene.
