Basic Trope: A man who's either divorced or widowed (usually the latter) marries his mistress.
- Straight: Bob was married to Alice, but secretly having an affair with Carol. When Alice dies, he marries Carol a few months later.
- Exaggerated: The moment Alice is buried, Bob and Carol head to Vegas.
- Downplayed: Alice and Bob get divorced and he then moves in with Carol.
- Justified:
- 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.
- Bob and Alice had an Arranged Marriage neither of them wanted. Alice knew about Carol and gave Bob her blessing to marry Carol once she passed on.
- Gender-Inverted: After her husband, Bob, dies, Alice marries her secret boyfriend Carlos.
- Subverted: Carol expects Bob will marry her once Alice is dead, but he then makes it clear he has no interest in doing so.
- Double Subverted: Bob ends up marrying Jessica, his other mistress, eventually.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted:
- Bob and Alice were Happily Married and there was no cheating.
- Bob and Carol don't get married after Alice died, preferring to keep their relationship casual.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied:
- 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.
- Bill, Bob's son by Alice, murders Carol at the engagement party as revenge for cheating on his mother. He spares his father so Bob will have to live out his days alone.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed: Bob soon gets bored again in his marriage and starts cheating on Carol, who finds herself stuck as an unwanted Trophy Wife.
- Played For Drama: Bob murdered Alice to marry Carol.
