Basic Trope: High-School Sweethearts gone awry.
- Straight: Alice and Bob are High-School Sweethearts who marry at 20. Bob soon meets Claire, who he falls in love with. When Alice finds out, she files for divorce.
- Exaggerated: Alice and Bob marry on Alice’s 16th birthday, but a month later Bob decides he is Leaving You to Find Myself and gets a divorce.
- Downplayed: Alice and Bob marry at 23, and separated for a couple of years but get back together.
- Justified:
- People change as they grow older, and Bob felt Alice was getting in the way of his personal growth.
- Bob simply loved Claire. It can happen at any age.
- Subverted:
- They look as if they’ll get divorced, but decide to try marriage counselling first.
- Claire decided I Want My Beloved to Be Happy and leaves Bob.
- Double Subverted:
- The marriage counselling fails and they get divorced.
- Alice finds out about the affair, and files for divorce even though they have broken up.
- Inverted:
- 60 year olds Alice and Bob marry and soon get divorced due to Alice not being over all of her exes.
- Alice and Bob marry at 20 and are Sickeningly Sweethearts.
- Averted:
- Although Alice and Bob have their arguments, they never think about getting a divorce.
- Alice and Bob’s country forbids marriage under 25 or 30.
- Zig Zagged:
- Although Alice and Bob divorce, Elizabeth and Fred are Happily Married, even though they married at the same age.
- Alice and Bob are twenty-five, which is quite young by western standards.
- Invoked: Alice and Bob marry despite problems in their relationship.
- Exploited: Claire is seductive to Bob, and she uses his young age to take him away from Alice.
- Enforced: ??
- Discussed: Diane: "This is the reason I won’t marry before 25!"
- Conversed: "They made a really bad decision to marry at 20."
- Defied:
- Alice and Bob go through marriage counselling instead of getting a divorce.
- They decide to wait a few years before marriage.
- Played For Laughs: Alice and Bob get a Toilet Seat Divorce.
- Played For Drama: Alice is Spurned into Suicide by the divorce as she still loves Bob.
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