History PlayingWith / QuittingToGetMarried

* '''Inverted''': Alice is unemployed until meeting Bob, then immediately gets a job or sets up a husband-and-wife business partnership with him.

** Alice's work as a homemaker is often taken for granted, even though it's ''hard'' work, [[AcceptableProfessionalTargets because she doesn't get paid for it]]. Alice begins to feel unappreciated and resentful.

* '''Discussed''': "Why is she quitting just because she's married? Doesn't she realise it isn't TheFifties anymore?"
* '''Conversed''': ???

* '''Enforced''': ??? %% Enforced is the author HAVING to include the trope, not WANTING to

* '''Enforced''': The writers are trying to cater to the social conservatives in the audience who don't approve of a working wife.
* '''Lampshaded''': "Hey Alice, TheFifties [[XCalledTheyWantTheirYBack called, they said they want their old-fashioned values back!]]"

* '''Exaggerated''': Alice is the successful and celebrated CEO of the world-leading Widget Corporation, but steps down the minute Bob proposes.

* '''Downplayed''': Alice decides to work part-time or casually for the same employer, on marrying Bob, and her contract accomodates this.

*** Or, in a more conventional setting, Alice is a nun, and has to give up her vocation for the same reason.

* '''Parodied''': ???

* '''Averted''': Alice keeps her job when she marries and still when she has children. To do otherwise wouldn't be fitting for a modern woman and besides, why should she?
** Alternatively, Alice married Bob right after she graduated from HighSchool or [[MrsDegree college]], and was never a part of the workforce in the first place.

* '''Invoked''': [[TruthInTelevision Alice's employer offers no maternity benefits, expecting women to quit when they get married.]]
* '''Exploited''': Alice is the sole heir to her [[EccentricMillionaire eccentric and conservative millionaire Uncle Charlie]], who inserted [[OnOneCondition a clause in his will whereby Alice will only inherit if she gets a husband and gives up her career]], else he will [[SillyWill leave his entire fortune to the local bat sanctuary]]. So, Alice decides to marry boyfriend Bob and quit her job.

* '''Deconstructed''': Alice quits her job, but finds life as a housewife boring, lonely and unfulfilling compared to work; she ends up spending most days watching trashy daytime TV just to distract her. Moreover, the couple are finding it impossible to pay off the mortgage and the increasingly large gas bill on a one income household; how can they even think of affording to raise kids?

* '''Reconstructed''': So Alice decides to take up her long-neglected hobby and turns it into a successful online business, volunteers for local charity work, and homeschools little Diane after having her.

%%* '''Played For Drama''': ???

* '''Invoked''': [[TruthInTelevision Alice's employer offers no maternity benefits, expecting women to quit when they get married.

* '''Invoked''': ???

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** Alice's work as a homemaker is often taken for granted, even though it's ''hard'' work, [[AcceptableCareerTargets because she doesn't get paid for it]]. Alice begins to feel unappreciated and resentful.

* '''Exploited''': Alice is the sole heir to her eccentric and conservative millionaire Uncle Charlie, who inserted a clause in his will whereby Alice will only inherit if she gets a husband and gives up her career, else he will leave his entire fortune to the local bat sanctuary. So, Alice decides to marry boyfriend Bob and quit her job.

* '''Lampshaded''': ???

* '''Exploited''': ???

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** Alice is a priestess of a virgin goddess cult that requires all priestesses to be celibate. She can't do that and be married (or even intimate) with Bob at the same time.