History Main / DeconfirmedBachelor

* Danny on ''Series/{{CSINY}}'':

** Of course, five seasons later, that all changed...

->''When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.''

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* Creator/GeorgeClooney swore he would never marry again after divorcing Creator/TaliaBalsam at the beginning of the '90s, but then, in 2014, Amal Alamuddin came along...
* Creator/CharlieBrooker, CausticCritic extraordinaire of British rag ''The Guardian'' and decidedly unromantic, [[https://metro.co.uk/2018/01/07/black-mirrors-charlie-brooker-opens-up-on-falling-in-love-it-seemed-like-something-other-people-did-7210156/ admits he's still shocked he managed to fall in love and start a family]].
* Creator/CSLewis was a lifelong confirmed bachelor until the age of 58 when he married the American poet Joy Davidman, a close friend who edited his autobiography ''Surprised by Joy''[[note]]a reference to a poem by William Wordsworth, though his friends would remark in later years, in reference to his enduring love for his wife, that he really had been "surprised by Joy"[[/note]], in order to make it easier for her [[CitizenshipMarriage to stay in the United Kingdom]]. It was two years later, after she was diagnosed with cancer, that he utterly lost his heart to her; they married in the Church, and her death in 1960 devastated him so much that he wrote his seminal work ''A Grief Observed'' as he struggled to cope with her loss. He continued to raise her sons by her first husband after her death, until his own three years later; one of his stepsons is his literary executor. Their love for each other is chronicled in the film ''Film/{{Shadowlands}}''.
* H.L. Mencken could be the poster child for this trope until he fell madly in love with a chronically ill fellow writer.
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** In ''The Belgariad'', Zakath makes it clear to Ce'Nedra that he has no faith in marriage, and cynically expects her and Garion to end up unhappy. In ''The Malloreon'', it's revealed his attitude -- and his determination to destroy the Murgos and take over the world -- is driven by Taur Urgas framing the love of his life in an assassination plot that forced Zakath to execute her before he found out the truth. Even after he starts helping Garion's group and recovering from the trauma and guilt he's been living with, he still remains convinced that his chance has passed and that marriage is not for him. Destiny, however, has other ideas for him, so he ends up falling in love and happily married despite himself [[spoiler:to Cyradis -- it helps that the new God of Angarak takes Cyradis' side as Eriond not only gives him a kick up the backside to propose to her, but officiates the wedding before anything can get in the way]].

* ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'': Lord Robert St. Simon of ''The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor''. He's 41 years old on the day of his wedding to Hatty Doran. Holmes remarks that 41 is "mature for marriage" and it's strongly implied that his [[GoldDigger motivation]] for finally settling down is due to the fact that he's [[ImpoverishedPatrician broke]] and Hatty is [[NouveauRiche rich]]. But it's subverted when no sooner are the nuptials solemnized [[spoiler: Hatty's previous husband, whom she thought was dead, shows up alive and well. And so St. Simon's marriage becomes null and void and he resumes being a [[ConfirmedBachelor bachelor in his forties]].]]