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* WomanScorned: [[https://notalwaysright.com/hotel-californication/47256/ This woman]] is ''very'' insistent that the hotel let her in to see her (now ex-)boyfriend, and tries to ''attack'' the submitter when they won't let her in.
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** Even moreso with [[https://notalwaysright.com/extraordinarily-amicable-with-the-ex/264269/ this couple]]. They married because they thought it was natural given their closeness, and then divorced when they realized it wasn't working out because [[BetterAsFriends there was no romantic attraction between them]], but have remained best friends throughout it all. OP even indicates that they've agreed that if things don't work out on the marriage front for them, they'll grow old together as PlatonicLifePartners.

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** Even moreso with [[https://notalwaysright.com/extraordinarily-amicable-with-the-ex/264269/ this couple]]. They As a pair of opposite-sex friends, they married because they thought it was natural given their closeness, and then divorced when they realized it wasn't working out because [[BetterAsFriends there was actually no romantic attraction between them]], but have remained best friends throughout it all. OP even indicates that they've agreed that if things don't work out on the marriage front for them, they'll grow old together as PlatonicLifePartners.
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** Even moreso with [[https://notalwaysright.com/extraordinarily-amicable-with-the-ex/264269/ this couple]]. They married because they thought it was natural given their closeness, and then divorced when they realized it wasn't working out because [[BetterAsFriends there was no romantic attraction between them]], but have remained best friends throughout it all. OP even indicates that they've agreed that if things don't work out on the marriage front for them, they'll grow old together as PlatonicLifePartners.
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* ClosetKey: A case of IncompatibleOrientation turns into this [[http://notalwaysright.com/dont-let-that-butterfly-flutter-by/ here]], when the submitter advises her friend to imagine making out with someone she likes and see how she feels. May instead be an example of IfItsYouItsOkay.

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* ClosetKey: A case of IncompatibleOrientation turns into this [[http://notalwaysright.com/dont-let-that-butterfly-flutter-by/ here]], when the submitter advises her friend to imagine making out with someone she likes the girl who confessed to her and see how she feels. May instead be an example of IfItsYouItsOkay.
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** Similarly, [[https://notalwaysright.com/seems-think-fifty-nos-means-yes/99250/ this college student]] thinks that when the submitter's sister sits next to him in class, it means she's interested in him. When she refuses, he has the nerve to call her a "slut," and continues to harass her until she pulls a BoyfriendBluff, and he later gets expelled for similar antics with other girls.

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** Similarly, [[https://notalwaysright.com/seems-think-fifty-nos-means-yes/99250/ this college student]] thinks that [[InsaneTrollLogic when the submitter's sister sits next to him in class, it means she's interested in him. him]]. When she refuses, he has the nerve to call her a "slut," and then continues to harass her until she pulls a BoyfriendBluff, and he BoyfriendBluff. He would later gets be expelled for pulling similar antics stunts with other girls.
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** Similarly, [[https://notalwaysright.com/seems-think-fifty-nos-means-yes/99250/ this college student]] thinks that when the submitter's sister sits next to him in class, it means she's interested in him. When she refuses, he has the nerve to call her a "slut," and continues to harass her until she pulls a BoyfriendBluff, and he later gets expelled for similar antics with other girls.
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* InterruptedIntimacy: [[https://notalwaysright.com/not-doggy-style/101265/ The submitter's dog]] interrupts the submitter and their boyfriend's getting intimate by staring at them.
-->'''Submitter:''' "Do you think you could put him outside? He’s being weird."\\
'''Boyfriend:''' “[[TemptingFate He’s fine. It’s not like he cares about what we’re doing]].”\\
''<cue the dog laying right beside their heads and staring right at the boyfriend>''
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* AndCallHimGeorge: {{Discussed}} in [[https://notalwaysright.com/mice-men-cats-boyfriends/106463/ this story]], complete with a quick debate over whether the TropeNamer was ''Literature/OfMiceAndMen'' or ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes''.
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* AttemptedHomewrecker: [[https://notalwaysright.com/the-friend-zone-contains-no-true-friends/119398/ This woman's]] (now evidently former) friend decides to hit on her via text, and claims that "I'm [[HappilyMarried married]], and I don't think of you like that" isn't an answer. When he continues to press her over it, she understandably grows angry, which leads to him insulting her and making posts online about the "friend zone" and calling her "blind, slutty slutty, and stupid". She responds by posting a screenshot of their original conversation, which he promptly deletes and blocks her.
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-->'''Groom:''' I ''told'' you he didn't like me!

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* ItsAllAboutMe:
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/transitioned-without-you/90855/ This girl]] demanded that her boyfriend come out as trans so she could have a girlfriend.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/fall-of-bridezilla/118156/ One "bridezilla"]] pulls her sister out of the wedding when she becomes pregnant, despite knowing that she had been trying for three years so this was always a possibility. A few months later, the mother, with tears in her eyes, says that the sister lost the baby. The bridezilla just dismisses it by saying that at least now, she can be in the wedding. [[LaserGuidedKarma The mother, now furious, announces she won't finance the wedding, and the would-be groom calls the whole thing off the next day.]]

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* ItsAllAboutMe:
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/transitioned-without-you/90855/ This girl]] demanded that her boyfriend come out as trans so she could have a girlfriend.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/fall-of-bridezilla/118156/ One "bridezilla"]] pulls her sister out of the wedding when she becomes pregnant, despite knowing that she had been trying for three years so this was always a possibility. A few months later, the mother, with tears in her eyes, says that the sister lost the baby. The bridezilla just dismisses it by saying that at least now, she can be in the wedding. [[LaserGuidedKarma The mother, now furious, announces she won't finance the wedding, and the would-be groom calls the whole thing off the next day.]]
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* LaserGuidedKarma:
** Happens occasionally, but rarely is it as satisfying as [[http://notalwaysright.com/make-rainbows-not-war/ this story]]. A homophobic player in a shooter game keeps calling the submitter slurs, angering the players on both teams, who tell him to shut up. Instead, he turns the slurs on one of his ''own'' teammates, who is also gay. His teammates respond by completely abandoning him and permitting the submitter's team to [[CurbStompBattle repeatedly kill him in game]] which frustrates him to the point he quits. The homophobic player is banned from the team since he was only filling in for his sick brother, and the gay teammate later dates the submitter.
** Comes with a side order of IWasBeatenByAGirl in [[http://notalwaysright.com/shouldnt-make-off-the-cuff-remarks/ this]] story, in which a guy with an extensive rap sheet for DomesticAbuse tries to slap around his current girlfriend for postponing a date because she was working late... as a prison guard. [[TooDumbToLive And then he goes back to her house the next day to "teach her a lesson"]].

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* LaserGuidedKarma:
** Happens occasionally, but rarely is it as satisfying as [[http://notalwaysright.com/make-rainbows-not-war/ this story]]. A homophobic player in a shooter game keeps calling the submitter slurs, angering the players on both teams, who tell him to shut up. Instead, he turns the slurs on one of his ''own'' teammates, who is also gay. His teammates respond by completely abandoning him and permitting the submitter's team to [[CurbStompBattle repeatedly kill him in game]] which frustrates him to the point he quits. The homophobic player is banned from the team since he was only filling in for his sick brother, and the gay teammate later dates the submitter.
** Comes with a side order of IWasBeatenByAGirl in [[http://notalwaysright.com/shouldnt-make-off-the-cuff-remarks/ this]] story, in which a guy with an extensive rap sheet for DomesticAbuse tries to slap around his current girlfriend for postponing a date because she was working late... as a prison guard. [[TooDumbToLive And then he goes back to her house the next day to "teach her a lesson"]].
LaserGuidedKarma: Now has [[LaserGuidedKarma/NotAlwaysRight its own page]].
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* InsaneTrollLogic: [[https://notalwaysright.com/mr-rogers-neighborhood-after-dark/257409/ A gay man and a lesbian]], fired for having sex in the office, insist "it wasn’t cheating because they were doing it with someone of a different sex than their spouses."
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* ManlyGay: [[http://notalwaysright.com/nice-road-truckers/ A 6'4, muscular trucker]] intimidates a guy who makes homophobic comments.

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* ManlyGay: [[http://notalwaysright.com/nice-road-truckers/ A 6'4, 6'4", muscular trucker]] intimidates a guy who makes homophobic comments.
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* RelativeError: [[https://notalwaysright.com/before-you-tell-lies-make-sure-you-know-the-truth/300641/ This guy]], after seeing a girl he wants to "get with" talking to another man, tries to convince her that said man is a creep who was saying all sorts of sleazy things about her. However, she knows full well he's lying, because the man is her ''brother''.
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* AmicableExes: [[https://notalwaysright.com/best-course-to-jest-of-divorce/40615/ This couple]] had a very difficult divorce, but subsequently reached the point where they not only had regular lunches to discuss the kids, but were comfortable ''joking'' about the circumstances of the split.
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** [[https://notalwaysright.com/thank-god-he-doesnt-share-dna-with-them-and-never-will/296459/ This guy]] throws a tantrum when nobody agrees with him that marrying somebody with children will automatically change their DNA to make him their biological father.

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** [[https://notalwaysright.com/thank-god-he-doesnt-share-dna-with-them-and-never-will/296459/ This guy]] throws a tantrum when nobody agrees with him that marrying somebody with children will automatically change their DNA to make him their biological father. Not even his own parents could get through to him that that's not how it works.
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* ProphecyTwist: A heartwarming case in [[https://notalwaysright.com/the-bells-of-destiny/119519/ this story]]. The submitter's cousin, in a traditional Chinese fortune-telling ceremony picked a bell (because his parents couldn't use the traditional set of items). [[spoiler:He ends up marrying a woman with the maiden name "Bell"]].

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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: [[https://notalwaysright.com/he-probably-thinks-women-dont-fart-too/213221/ This genius]] genuinely believes women naturally exude various pleasant fragrances, and perfumes are only used by women who don't exude a pleasant enough scent to attract males. When he finds out he's been smelling his girlfriend's shower gel, he immediately dumps her.

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[[https://notalwaysright.com/he-probably-thinks-women-dont-fart-too/213221/ This genius]] genuinely believes women naturally exude various pleasant fragrances, and perfumes are only used by women who don't exude a pleasant enough scent to attract males. When he finds out he's been smelling his girlfriend's shower gel, he immediately dumps her.


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** [[https://notalwaysright.com/thank-god-he-doesnt-share-dna-with-them-and-never-will/296459/ This guy]] throws a tantrum when nobody agrees with him that marrying somebody with children will automatically change their DNA to make him their biological father.
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* TheImmodestOrgasm: [[https://notalwaysright.com/the-nights-are-about-to-get-quieter-and-colder/ A submitter]] is distracted by the nightly "sound of furious lovemaking" from his neighbors for over a month. When he asks the wife about it, it turns out that her husband works night shifts.

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* TheImmodestOrgasm: A submitter in [[https://notalwaysright.com/the-nights-are-about-to-get-quieter-and-colder/ A submitter]] this story]] (which has been proven to be fictional) is distracted by the nightly "sound of furious lovemaking" from his neighbors for over a month. When he asks the wife about it, it turns out that her husband works night shifts.
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* WrongNameOutburst: [[https://notalwaysright.com/c-blocked-by-the-captain/43554/ This girl]] calls her boyfriend "Steve". When she explains she was thinking of [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse Steve Rogers]], [[EvenTheGuysWantHim he totally understands]].
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: Mentioned [[http://notalwaysright.com/very-musically-hands-on/ here]].
-->'''Boyfriend''': (quietly singing to himself) “Who is the bestest sweetie in the land? She’s the best on date night, better than my hand...
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: In [[https://notalwaysright.com/time-to-bite-the-bullet-part-4/237256/ this story]], a guy tried to avoid [[AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder Potong Jalan]] by getting ''five girlfriends simultaneously'', thinking that he'd still have one or two of them at the end of his service. It falls apart when all five of them turn up at his sendoff, realize he is five-timing them, and dump him instantaneously.
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* AccidentalInnuendo: The speaker's boyfriend expresses his frustration at being unable to find clothes his size. with "Damn, I got all excited and was let down!" His girlfriend replies, "[[http://notalwaysright.com/talking-about-his-light-saber/ Now you know how I feel all the time!]]" [[invoked]]
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* BattleCouple: One married couple is married, and met while deployed overseas. [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-good-service-for-those-in-service/ And she outranks him.]]

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* BattleCouple: One married couple is married, and met while deployed overseas. [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-good-service-for-those-in-service/ And she outranks him.]]
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* SkewedPriorities: [[https://notalwaysright.com/apron-strings-made-of-steel/288852/ A woman is involved in a car accident,]] requiring nearly 12 hours in the hospital for observation and stitches. Her husband fails to show up, citing an emergency with his mother, and even when she gets out it's inconvenient for him to even give her a lift. The emergency in question that lasted so long? His mother couldn't find the television remote, which was right where she always put it, and he clearly needed to spend all night consoling her for the scare. Unsurprisingly, when he does return home, he returns to find divorce papers waiting for him.
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* TranquilFury: In [[https://notalwaysright.com/fall-of-bridezilla/118156/ "Fall of Bridezilla"]], Bridezilla had been pitching a fit and kicked her sister out of the wedding because her pregnancy was inconveniencing her. Then, when told that her sister had lost the baby, she said "oh, then she can be in the wedding again." The poster referred to Bridezilla's mom's response as a "deadly soft, deadly calm voice" as she pulled out of paying for the wedding.
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* [[BluffTheImpostor Bluff the Ex]]: How [[http://notalwaysright.com/its-an-ex-tra-small-world/ one woman and her sister]] catch [[ClingyJealousGirl her husband's ex]] in a lie.

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* [[BluffTheImpostor Bluff the Ex]]: BluffTheImpostor: How [[http://notalwaysright.com/its-an-ex-tra-small-world/ one woman and her sister]] catch [[ClingyJealousGirl her husband's ex]] in a lie.
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** [[https://notalwaysright.com/time-for-rover-to-find-a-new-buddy/286805/ This submitter]] promptly aborts their first date when their prospective partner orders the restaurant's most expensive meal (literally asking the waiter what the most expensive thing is, and then ordering it) under the full expectation that the submitter will pay for it.
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* ManlyGay: [[http://notalwaysright.com/nice-road-truckers/ A 6'4, muscular trucker]] intimidates a guy who makes homophonic comments.

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* ManlyGay: [[http://notalwaysright.com/nice-road-truckers/ A 6'4, muscular trucker]] intimidates a guy who makes homophonic homophobic comments.
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* HeartbreakAndIceCream: After [[https://notalwaysright.com/a-truly-breathtaking-lack-of-awareness-or-compassion/265723/ this woman]] finds out her boyfriend is in a serious relationship with another woman, one of her friends shows up with a carton of her favorite ice cream.

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