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JRads47
Since: Dec, 2014
partner555
Since: Dec, 2010
31st Mar, 2020 05:01:58 PM
Unequal Pairing is the closest I can think off.
Unnerving_Posterior
Since: Feb, 2019
1st Apr, 2020 03:34:38 PM
There's also Lady Macbeth.
A trope where a husband is not technically a Henpecked Husband, but his wife has a lot more power or wealth than he does (through her family or connections or her own work), and this gives him issues due to the usual perception of men being in charge. The wife is often perfectly nice instead of domineering.
- In The Trojan War, one of the main reasons Menelaus needs Helen back is that he's only king of Sparta through his marriage to her.
- In Craig Rice's novels, the lower-class Jake Justus marries an heiress who can easily support the two of them. But because it's the 1920s, he's obsessed with getting a job that he feels can give her a life worthy of her (despite everyone, including his wife, telling him it's stupid).
Edited by Chabal2