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* ''Film/SpankingTheMonkey'': Tom Aibelli is frequently on the road for his business. During one scene, he is shown with a naked woman, the implication being that he cheats on Susan on the regular.
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* One version of the urban legend "[=AIDS=] Marie," centers around a successful business man who frequently travels out of town as part of his job, and heavily implied that he frequently cheats on his wife during such trips. On one such trip, he picks up gorgeous woman and after a few rounds of drinks they go back to his hotel room where the woman would reveal that she was once raped, which explains her aggressive sexual tendencies. The morning after, the woman is gone and on the mirror of the bathroom she wrote in lipstick "Welcome to the AIDS club." In some versions of the story, after the truth came out, the man's wife divorced him, sued him for sole custody, and gets fired from his well paying job for an unrelated reason (though implied to be related to his personal problems), he moves to the city where the woman infected him and frequents bars and clubs with the hope of seeing her again with the intent to [[MurderSuicide shoot her dead, and then taking his own life]].

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* One version of the urban legend "[=AIDS=] Marie," centers around a successful business man who frequently travels out of town as part of his job, and heavily implied that he frequently cheats uses the trips as the perfect excuse to cheat on his wife during such trips. wife. On one such trip, he picks up gorgeous woman at a bar named Marie, and after a few rounds round of drinks they go back to his hotel room where the woman would reveal that she was once raped, which explains her aggressive sexual tendencies. The morning after, the woman is gone and on the mirror of the bathroom she wrote in lipstick "Welcome to the AIDS club." In some versions of the story, after the truth came out, the man's he returns from that trip, he's forced to confess to his wife divorced him, sued who divorces him and sues him for sole custody, and custody. Soon aster that he gets fired from his well paying job for an unrelated reason (though implied to be related to his personal problems), and he moves to the city where the woman infected him and frequents popular bars and clubs with the hope of seeing her again with the intent to [[MurderSuicide shoot her dead, and then taking his own life]].
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* One version of the urban legend "[=AIDS=] Marie," centers around a successful business man who frequently travels out of town as part of his job, and heavily implied that he frequently cheats on his wife during such trips. On one such trip, he picks up gorgeous woman and after a few rounds of drinks they go back to his hotel room where the woman would reveal that she was once raped, which explains her aggressive sexual tendencies. The morning after, the woman is gone and on the mirror of the bathroom she wrote in lipstick "Welcome to the [=AIDS=]] club." In some versions of the story, after the truth came out, the man's wife divorced him, sued him for sole custody, and gets fired from his well paying job for an unrelated reason (though implied to be related to his personal problems), he moves to the city where the woman infected him and frequents bars and clubs with the hope of seeing her again with the intent to [[MurderSuicide shoot her dead, and then taking his own life]].

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* One version of the urban legend "[=AIDS=] Marie," centers around a successful business man who frequently travels out of town as part of his job, and heavily implied that he frequently cheats on his wife during such trips. On one such trip, he picks up gorgeous woman and after a few rounds of drinks they go back to his hotel room where the woman would reveal that she was once raped, which explains her aggressive sexual tendencies. The morning after, the woman is gone and on the mirror of the bathroom she wrote in lipstick "Welcome to the [=AIDS=]] AIDS club." In some versions of the story, after the truth came out, the man's wife divorced him, sued him for sole custody, and gets fired from his well paying job for an unrelated reason (though implied to be related to his personal problems), he moves to the city where the woman infected him and frequents bars and clubs with the hope of seeing her again with the intent to [[MurderSuicide shoot her dead, and then taking his own life]].
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* ''Series/TheHauntingOfHillHouse'': A supernaturally-induced AdventuresInComaland sequence reveals Shirley had an affair at a funeral director's convention some years back. She's especially ashamed of it because her husband was at home looking after their son.

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* ''Series/TheHauntingOfHillHouse'': ''Series/TheHauntingOfHillHouse2018'': A supernaturally-induced AdventuresInComaland sequence reveals Shirley had an affair at a funeral director's convention some years back. She's especially ashamed of it because her husband was at home looking after their son.
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-->'''Mr. Harman''': Oh, er, would it be in order to ask if you're taking your good lady wife with you?
-->'''Mr. Rumbold''': No, as a matter of fact, she will be staying at home.
-->'''Mr. Harman''': Oh, I see. Hopin' to cop a bit o' spare when y'get there.

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-->'''Mr.--->'''Mr. Harman''': Oh, er, would it be in order to ask if you're taking your good lady wife with you?
-->'''Mr.--->'''Mr. Rumbold''': No, as a matter of fact, she will be staying at home.
-->'''Mr.--->'''Mr. Harman''': Oh, I see. Hopin' to cop a bit o' spare when y'get there.
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* ''Film/AreYouBeingServed'':
** Captain Peacock hopes to get close to Miss Brahms on the staff holiday as his wife will be staying at home.
** Mr. Harman gets the wrong idea about Mr. Rumbold's plans for the staff holiday:
-->'''Mr. Harman''': Oh, er, would it be in order to ask if you're taking your good lady wife with you?
-->'''Mr. Rumbold''': No, as a matter of fact, she will be staying at home.
-->'''Mr. Harman''': Oh, I see. Hopin' to cop a bit o' spare when y'get there.
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* ''Series/ReggiePerrin'': Reggie goes to Europe with Jasmine Strauss (with whom he has been having BelligerentSexualTension with the moment she arrived) at the worst possible time, as his wife Nicola is becoming increasingly absent in his life and seemingly unsympathetic to his problems. However, he realises at the last moment that he still loves Nicola, which Jasmine accepts with good grace. In an inversion, Reggie's best friend Monty tries to seduce Nicola during said trip, but she has no interest in him whatsoever.
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* ''WebAnimation/AttackOnMika'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ9AkiS7Ppo Yuria]] seemed to go on business trips to provide for her son Riku. However, it turned out she went on these trips to cheat on Ichi. Later on, it's revealed [[spoiler:she didn't even have a job and mooched off of him and her lover]].
* ''WebAnimation/RefreshingStories'':
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1u4RIL_D-TQ Ririka]] lied to Hiroshi about going on a business trip to cover up her affair with a guy at a Japanese-style inn in Kyoto.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNg3tbHX4qk Kanako]] covered up her affair with subordinate Jin by lying about going on a business trip. However, Hiroshi downloaded an app to track the uses of his credit card which she borrowed. When he found out the truth, he blocked the card before they could pay the hotel.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nk03peRhIM Kanemi]] lied to Hiroshi about going on a business trip to cover her affair with her lover Ikiro. When Hiroshi found out with Bunta that she was riding in his supercar, he followed the lovebirds in his beat-down vintage car.
* ''WebAnimation/RevengeFilms'':
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VkzCPIomIk My husband on business trip asks for a divorce.→2 years later, he wants to get back...]]": Matt cheats on his wife Kelly with a woman 12 years younger than her. What's more, he plans to divorce Kelly, marry his lover, and quit his job to open a takoyaki shop.
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYT3spf9V3w My wife was cheating on me with her coworker...]]": Eiko is revealed to have spent an excessive amount of job time in hotels for "business reasons," this is how she met C and it's also the reason she gets eventually fired.
** "[[https://youtu.be/Pxxxu0TpVSI My husband refuses to have sex with me, so I walked in on him having an affair]]": The OP found out her husband also took his lover to his business trips behind his boss's back. When she noticed the boss about it, he got infuriated about it and told her he would take disciplinary action.
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* Music/GarthBrooks' "Papa Loved Momma" is an inversion; it's about a trucker whose wife routinely cheated on him while ''he'' was away on business. One night he managed to get home early, discovered her infidelity, and ran her and her lover over with his big rig.

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* Music/GarthBrooks' "Papa Loved Momma" Mama" is an inversion; it's about a trucker whose wife routinely cheated on him while ''he'' was away on business. One night he managed to get home early, discovered her infidelity, and ran her and her lover over with his big rig.
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* Music/GarthBrooks' "Poppa Loved Momma" is an inversion; it's about a trucker whose wife routinely cheated on him while ''he'' was away on business. One night he managed to get home a day early, discovered her infidelity, and ran her and her lover over with his big rig.

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* Music/GarthBrooks' "Poppa "Papa Loved Momma" is an inversion; it's about a trucker whose wife routinely cheated on him while ''he'' was away on business. One night he managed to get home a day early, discovered her infidelity, and ran her and her lover over with his big rig.
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* One version of the urban legend "[=AIDS=] Marie," centers around a successful business man who frequently travels out of town as part of his job, and heavily implied that he frequently cheats on his wife during such trips. On one such trip, he picks up gorgeous woman and after a few rounds of drinks they go back to his hotel room where the woman would reveal that she was once raped, which explains her aggressive sexual tendencies. The morning after, the woman is gone and on the mirror of the bathroom she wrote in lipstick "Welcome to the [=AIDS=]] club." In some versions of the story, after the truth came out, the man's wife divorced him, sued him for sole custody, and gets fired from his well paying job for an unrelated reason (though implied to be related to his personal problems), he moves to the city where the woman infected him and frequents bars and clubs with the hope of seeing her again with the intent to [[MurderSuicide shoot her dead, and then taking his own life]].
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* ''Series/TheDickVanDykeShow'': Mentioned but not enacted in "[[Recap/TheDickVanDykeShowS1E7Jealousy Jealousy]]"; Jerry quips about Rob possibly setting up late night meetings so he can spend time with the beautiful female guest star, and Laura becomes increasingly suspicious about it. He's doing nothing of the kind; in fact, in at least one case, he tried to talk his way out of staying late.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'': Helen Parr assumes this could be happening when her husband Bob begins going away on several "business trips". She can hear a woman's voice while listening in on his phone conversation and finds a long hair on one of his suits. It certainly doesn't help when she finds him with another woman in his arms. However, this is subverted, as while the business trip was a ruse, it was for the sake of Bob reliving his glory days as a superhero rather than an affair.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'': ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles1'': Helen Parr assumes this could be happening when her husband Bob begins going away on several "business trips". She can hear a woman's voice while listening in on his phone conversation and finds a long hair on one of his suits. It certainly doesn't help when she finds him with another woman in his arms. However, this is subverted, as while the business trip was a ruse, it was for the sake of Bob reliving his glory days as a superhero rather than an affair.
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* Invoked in ''Literature/LeiaPrincessOfAlderaan'' when Grand Moff Tarkin crashes a get together on Alderaan, in which Bail and Breha had been [[LaResistance conspiring together with like-minded Senators]]. Some of their allies are visibly anxious, so Breha Organa throws Tarkin off the scent by acting the LadyDrunk and getting upset with her husband. Bail and Mon Mothma instantly catch on and all three spin up a sordid situation where Bail's many long trips away from Alderaan owe less to the Senate and more to Mon Mothma. Young Leia Organa knows her parents are HappilyMarried and this is a ruse but finds them 'fighting' in front of everyone with an increasingly disgusted Tarkin looking on upsetting and bursts into tears, knowing this will help sell the act.
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* Inverted in ''Film/{{Unfaithful}}'', when it's the spouse staying at home who cheats--Connie's been having an affair for several weeks, but with her husband going away, she no longer needs to make excuses for her frequent absences.
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* ''Series/WithoutATrace'': As the team traces the footsteps of a missing woman, they learn that she had begun to suspect her husband of having affairs while on his annual "hunting trips" and had begun to trace ''his'' footsteps. [[spoiler: In a subversion, he wasn't sleeping with anyone, he was a ''serial killer'', and the jewelry she suspected were apology gifts were actually trophies from his victims.]]

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* ''Series/WithoutATrace'': As the team traces the footsteps of a missing woman, they learn that she had begun to suspect her husband of having affairs while on his annual "hunting trips" and had begun to trace ''his'' footsteps. [[spoiler: In a subversion, he wasn't sleeping with anyone, he was a ''serial killer'', and the jewelry she suspected were apology gifts were actually trophies from his victims.]]]] In another episode, the agents discover that their VictimOfTheWeek went so far as to have a SecretOtherFamily out in California.
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* ''Series/WithoutATrace'': As the team traces the footsteps of a missing woman, they learn that she had begun to suspect her husband of having affairs while on his annual "hunting trips" and had begun to trace ''his'' footsteps. [[spoiler: In a subversion, he wasn't sleeping with anyone, he was a ''serial killer'', and the jewelry she suspected were apology gifts were actually trophies from his victims.]]
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The final use of the trope is when someone cheats while their significant other is away on a business trip. The empty house allows them to invite anyone they please, and they have enough time to remove any hints of infidelity. Cheating in the absence of one's partner is also discussed in the CheatingWithTheMilkMan trope. Interestingly, if the woman is cheating while the man is away, he is usually "out of town for work". But if a ''male'' character is cheating while the wife or girlfriend is away, she is usually "visiting her sister" or "taking the kids to the grandparents'". To put this stereotype in simpler terms: Men want work, women want family.

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The final use of the trope is when someone cheats while their significant other is away on a business trip. The empty house allows them to invite anyone they please, and they have enough time to remove any hints of infidelity. Cheating in the absence of one's partner is also discussed in the CheatingWithTheMilkMan CheatingWithTheMilkman trope. Interestingly, if the woman is cheating while the man is away, he is usually "out of town for work". But if a ''male'' character is cheating while the wife or girlfriend is away, she is usually "visiting her sister" or "taking the kids to the grandparents'". To put this stereotype in simpler terms: Men want work, women want family.
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* ''Film/LostInTranslation2003'': American actor Bob Harris (played by Creator/Bill Murray) is visiting Japan to promote Suntory Whiskey, but finds solace in his time alone. His wife frequent calls him from the U.S about redecorations she is doing on their house. Towards the end of his stay, Bob has a one night stand with a lounge singer he previously mocked. Conversely, Creator/ScarlettJohansson's character Charlotte is visiting Japan with her husband who is there for business. She notices him being friendly with a famous actress he worked with, and worries about him being unfaithful to her.

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* ''Film/LostInTranslation2003'': American actor Bob Harris (played by Creator/Bill Murray) Creator/BillMurray) is visiting Japan to promote Suntory Whiskey, but finds solace in his time alone. His wife frequent calls him from the U.S about redecorations she is doing on their house. Towards the end of his stay, Bob has a one night stand with a lounge singer he previously mocked. Conversely, Creator/ScarlettJohansson's character Charlotte is visiting Japan with her husband who is there for business. She notices him being friendly with a famous actress he worked with, and worries about him being unfaithful to her.
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* ''Film/LostInTranslation2003'': As Charlotte's husband travels around Japan for a film promotion, it becomes increasingly obvious that he and one of the film's stars have chemistry. She fears her husband is attracted to the other woman, but it's never explicitly stated if he is cheating.

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* ''Film/LostInTranslation2003'': As Charlotte's husband travels around American actor Bob Harris (played by Creator/Bill Murray) is visiting Japan for to promote Suntory Whiskey, but finds solace in his time alone. His wife frequent calls him from the U.S about redecorations she is doing on their house. Towards the end of his stay, Bob has a film promotion, it becomes increasingly obvious that he and one of the film's stars have chemistry. She fears night stand with a lounge singer he previously mocked. Conversely, Creator/ScarlettJohansson's character Charlotte is visiting Japan with her husband who is attracted there for business. She notices him being friendly with a famous actress he worked with, and worries about him being unfaithful to the other woman, but it's never explicitly stated if he is cheating.her.
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* ''Film/{{Contagion}}'': At the beginning of the film, Beth's on the phone with someone other than her husband, thanking the person for a nice night. Unbeknownst at the time, she was already sick with the virus she caught in Hong Kong. Following her death, Mitch (her husband) learns her ex-boyfriend caught the virus at a similar time, and he puts two and two together.

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* ''Film/{{Contagion}}'': ''Film/Contagion2011'': At the beginning of the film, Beth's on the phone with someone other than her husband, thanking the person for a nice night. Unbeknownst at the time, she was already sick with the virus she caught in Hong Kong. Following her death, Mitch (her husband) learns her ex-boyfriend caught the virus at a similar time, and he puts two and two together.
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* ''Film/TheBigSick'': Emily's father Terry reveals to Kumail that he had a one-night stand while away from his wife Beth at a conference for teachers. He didn't intend to do so before going, (he points out that a gathering of math teachers is probably the ''last'' place on Earth anyone goes to have an affair) and he instantly regretted it and immediately confessed to Beth afterward, but it has been a source of tension between them ever since and they've never been able to talk about it or deal with it. The end of the movie shows the two starting to reconcile.

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* ''Film/TheBigSick'': Emily's father Terry reveals to Kumail that he had a one-night stand while away from his wife Beth at a conference for teachers. He didn't intend to do so before going, going (he points out that a gathering of math teachers is probably the ''last'' place on Earth anyone goes to have an affair) and affair), he instantly regretted it it, and immediately confessed to Beth afterward, but afterward. Unfortunately it has been a source of tension between them ever since and they've never been able to talk about it or deal with it. The end of the movie shows the two starting to reconcile.
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* ''Series/{{Fringe}}'': In "Midnight" the first victim of the week meets his killer while out at a bar looking for someone to hook up with while his girlfriend is out of town for a work event.
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* Music/GarthBrook's "Poppa Loved Momma" is about a trucker whose wife routinely cheated on him while he was away. One night he managed to get home a day early, discovered her infidelity, and ran her and her lover over with his big rig.

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* Music/GarthBrook's Music/GarthBrooks' "Poppa Loved Momma" is an inversion; it's about a trucker whose wife routinely cheated on him while he ''he'' was away.away on business. One night he managed to get home a day early, discovered her infidelity, and ran her and her lover over with his big rig.
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** One (Soviet-era) variant involves an artist being commissioned to create a painting with the theme of "Lenin in Poland" for an exhibition. The event rolls around and the painting is unveiled; to the audience's shock and scandal, it shows Lenin's wife Nadezhda Krupskya in bed with Leon Trotsky, with Lenin himself nowhere in sight. Someone asks the artist where Lenin is, and he answers "[[ExactWords In Poland]]".
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* Music/GarthBrook's "Poppa Loved Momma" is about a trucker whose wife routinely cheated on him while he was away. One night he managed to get home a day early, discovered her infidelity, and ran her and her lover over with his big rig.
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* ''Series/AllMyChildren''. Erica's good friend (and ex-lover) gets suspicious when he learns that both she and her current lover Dmitri Marick were both out of town on (separate) business trips and asks her if they're having an affair. She lies and denies it. Interestingly, neither of them left town and were actually trysting at his hunting lodge. A few years later, Brooke English gets uneasy when she learns that her husband Tad's ex-wife Dixie has gone out of town at the same time he has and confronts her own ex-lover Edmund and asks him point blank if the two are having an affair. Edmund knows that they are (he followed them to where they were rendezvousing), but he lies, as he can't bring himself to hurt Brooke.
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* ''Film/TheHoliday'': [[InvertedTrope An inverted version]]. Miles thinks his girlfriend Maggie is in New Mexico filming her new movie only to catch her back in L.A. walking around with another man. Maggie admits she did go to New Mexico but was only there for two days and snuck back to L.A. to be with her lover.

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