History Main / ToiletSeatDivorce

* ''Series/QuantumLeap''One of Al's marriages ended when his wife cited his nightly snoring as emotional abuse.

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** In "A Milhouse Divided", Mr. and Mrs. Van Houten have a public breakup that's precipitated by one spouse losing a game of Pictionary, though this incident was really only the RageBreakingPoint for long-held deep grudges.

See also MinorFlawMajorBreakup, FelonyMisdemeanor, RageBreakingPoint, DisproportionateRetribution, SexChangesEverything, DerailingLoveInterests. Contrast DifferingPrioritiesBreakup. If the reason is the pretext for a full-scale war between the two sides, it is a SillyReasonForWar. This trope is not about a divorce threat to somebody who by chance [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant happens to be in the john]].

See also MinorFlawMajorBreakup, FelonyMisdemeanor, RageBreakingPoint, DisproportionateRetribution, SexChangesEverything, DerailingLoveInterests. Contrast DifferingPrioritiesBreakup. This trope is not about a divorce threat to somebody who by chance [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant happens to be in the john]].

See also MinorFlawMajorBreakup, FelonyMisdemeanor, RantInducingSlight, DisproportionateRetribution, SexChangesEverything, DerailingLoveInterests. Contrast DifferingPrioritiesBreakup. This trope is not about a divorce threat to somebody who by chance [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant happens to be in the john]].

** In "A Milhouse Divided", Mr. and Mrs. Van Houten have a public breakup that's precipitated by one spouse losing a game of Pictionary, though this incident was really only the RantInducingSlight for long-held deep grudges.

Situation where a marriage is threatened to be broken up over a [[DisproportionateRetribution suspiciously minor]] setback or argument, sometimes venting complaints about [[CompressedVice behavior which just surfaced]]. This can occur even after the spouses have jumped numerous hurdles in the relationship to be together, and usually smells of the [[TrueLoveIsBoring inability of writers to do other plots or as cheap extension]]. From more capable writers, it's more of a RantInducingSlight, the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back and unloaded years worth of pent-up frustration. Of course, it can also be PlayedForLaughs if the slight is ridiculously minor.

* Dr. Wilson from ''Series/{{House}}'' had what seems to have been an example of this trope, given how he and his ex get along when they end up back together. The only difference the second time around is that House convinced Wilson to actually speak up instead of letting the irritation build up to RantInducingSlight levels.

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Mr. and Mrs. Van Houten have a public breakup that's precipitated by one spouse losing a game of Pictionary, though this incident was really only the RantInducingSlight for long-held deep grudges.

* The Literature/BookOfEsther starts with a party, where a king '''simply''' asks for his wife to make an appearance... and she says ''no''. (Although there is the implication that when the king wanted her to appear before him wearing her crown, he meant ''[[YouCanLeaveYourHatOn only her crown]]''). His advisers suggest that if the queen can so publicly snub her husband in front of the entire citizenry, every woman in the empire will feel free to do the same, so she's divorced/put to death and the title character replaces her. The king also makes it an immutable law for a wife to respect her husband and for a husband to bear rule in his own household.
* In ''Literature/TheBible'': In [[Literature/TheFourGospels Matthew chapter 19]], the Pharisees question Jesus if it was lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason (which in their minds mean for any trivial thing a wife would do that might displease a husband, such as poor cooking). Jesus takes them back to [[Literature/BookOfGenesis Genesis]] to remind them that "what God has yoked together" as "one flesh", a man should not separate, and it was through the hardness of their hearts that Moses gave them the precept for writing a certificate of divorce. He goes on to say, as He had said earlier in His Sermon on the Mount, that a man who divorces his wife for any reason except for marital infidelity and marries another woman commits adultery, and that a man who marries a divorced wife commits adultery.

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* The Literature/BookOfEsther starts with a party, where a king '''simply''' asks for his wife to make an appearance... and she says ''no''. (Although there is the implication that when the king wanted her to appear before him wearing her crown, he meant ''[[YouCanLeaveYourHatOn only her crown]]''). His advisers suggest that if the queen can so publicly snub her husband in front of the entire citizenry, every woman in the empire will feel free to do the same, so she's divorced/put to death and the title character replaces her. The king also makes it an immutable law for a wife to respect her husband and for a husband to bear rule in his own household.
* In ''Literature/TheBible'': In [[Literature/TheFourGospels Matthew chapter 19]], the Pharisees question Jesus if it was lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason (which in their minds mean for any trivial thing a wife would do that might displease a husband, such as poor cooking). Jesus takes them back to [[Literature/BookOfGenesis Genesis]] to remind them that "what God has yoked together" as "one flesh", a man should not separate, and it was through the hardness of their hearts that Moses gave them the precept for writing a certificate of divorce. He goes on to say, as He had said earlier in His Sermon on the Mount, that a man who divorces his wife for any reason except for marital infidelity and marries another woman commits adultery, and that a man who marries a divorced wife commits adultery.
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-->'''Ross''': ''We were on a '''BREAK'''''