Line #24 PlayingWith/RemarriedToTheMistress

Context PlayingWith / RemarriedToTheMistress

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1	'''Basic Trope''': A man who's either divorced or widowed (usually the latter) marries his mistress.
2	* '''Straight''': Bob was married to Alice, but secretly having an affair with [[TheMistress Carol]]. When Alice dies, he marries Carol a few months later.
3	* '''Exaggerated''': The moment Alice is buried, Bob and Carol head to Vegas.
4	* '''Downplayed''': Alice and Bob get divorced and he then moves in with Carol.
5	* '''Justified''':
6	** Bob wanted to be with Carol, but if he divorced Alice he'd lose out on her life insurance, which would set him and Carol up nicely after she passed on.
7	** Bob and Alice had an ArrangedMarriage neither of them wanted. Alice knew about Carol and gave Bob her blessing to marry Carol once she passed on.
8	* '''Gender-Inverted''': After her husband, [[{{Cuckold}} Bob]], dies, Alice marries her secret boyfriend Carlos.
9	* '''Subverted''': Carol expects Bob will marry her once Alice is dead, but he then makes it clear he has no interest in doing so.
10	* '''Double Subverted''': Bob ends up marrying Jessica, [[ReallyGetsAround his]] ''[[ReallyGetsAround other]]'' [[ReallyGetsAround mistress]], eventually.
11	* '''Parodied''': ???
12	* '''Zig Zagged''': ???
13	* '''Averted''':
14	** Bob and Alice were HappilyMarried and there was no cheating.
15	** Bob and Carol don't get married after Alice died, preferring to keep their relationship casual.
16	* '''Enforced''': ???
17	* '''Lampshaded''': ???
18	* '''Invoked''': ???
19	* '''Exploited''': ???
20	* '''Defied''':
21	** Carol refuses to marry Bob after Alice died when he asks, feeling it's disrespectful and fearing she'd end up the same if they married.
22	** Bill, Bob's son by Alice, murders Carol at the engagement party [[ItsPersonal as revenge for cheating on his mother]]. He spares his father [[CruelMercy so Bob will have to live out his days alone]].
23	* '''Discussed''': ???
24	* '''Conversed''': ???
25	* '''Deconstructed''': Bob soon gets bored again in his marriage and starts cheating on Carol, who [[LaserGuidedKarma finds herself]] stuck as an [[UnwantedSpouse unwanted]] TrophyWife.

Context PlayingWith / RemarriedToTheMistress