Basic Trope: A married couple sleeping in two separate beds.
- Straight: Alice and Bob are a couple who have their own beds.
- Exaggerated:
- Both members of the couple have their own bedroom.
- Both members of the couple have their own house.
- 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.
- Justified:
- One of them has a tendency to hog the sheets.
- The couple live in a society where it is unusual for people to share a bed.
- The couple live in a rented room that is occupied by two single beds.
- The couple sleep separately for medical reasons.
- 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.
- Alice and Bob going through some relationship issues.
- The couple just prefer to sleep separately and only get in bed together to have sex.
- Inverted: There Is Only One Bed
- Subverted: The couple is shown to have two beds, and then both get into the same one.
- Double Subverted: However, it was only to better warm that bed up
- Parodied:
- The couple have "His and Hers" everything, from sinks to telephones to front doors.
- Each person sleeps in separate houses that are on opposite sides of the country. Or in a different country.
- Zig Zagged: Sometimes, they sleep in the same bed, other nights they sleep separated.
- Averted: The couple sleep in a bed that comfortably fits two people.
- Enforced: The show is created in a time/place where airing pictures of two people in the same bed is considered improper.
- Lampshaded:
- The set designer for a Show Within a Show mentions having to make room for two beds.
- "So...your bed or mine tonight?"
- Invoked: One character, seeing how happy the couples in 1950s sitcoms are, suggests to their spouse that they adopt a two-bed lifestyle.
- Exploited: ???
- 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.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed: Alice and Bob are unable to have sex due to their never sharing a bed.
- Reconstructed: Alice and Bob find a way to have sex despite their never sharing a bed.
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