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Starter Marriage

148 statements
27 feature instances
22 referencing feature instances

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Starter Marriage	label	Starter Marriage
Starter Marriage	page	StarterMarriage
Starter Marriage	comment	Alice and Bob got together, they got engaged, and they got married. Everyone expects that they'll live Happily Ever After and grow old together. Then the news is broken that Alice and Bob are getting a divorce, even though they haven't even been married five years. What happened? Reasons for the divorce vary: one or both of them lacked maturity to sustain a long-term relationship, Alice and Bob had radically different goals and ideals in life, flaws (big or small) that they overlooked are coming to light, they married for the wrong reasons and/or too early. Whatever the reason(s) given, generally the marriage lasts less than five years and doesn't produce any children, so it's easy for the former spouses to cut each other out of their lives. It is also always the first marriage for at least one spouse, very often both, and may be followed by a more stable long-term marriage for one or both parties. May be the result of Relationship Writing Fumble, Fourth-Date Marriage, Married Too Young, Alice and Bob being Strangled by the Red String, or simply the idea that True Love Is Boring. It may be used to prevent Shipping Bed Death. May or may not result in one or both halves of the ex-couple going on to become a Serial Spouse if subsequent relationships are similarly doomed. Compare Stepping Stone Spouse and Sex Changes Everything. Truth in Television, sadly.
Starter Marriage	fetched	2024-03-10T08:16:31Z
Starter Marriage	parsed	2024-03-10T08:16:31Z
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Starter Marriage	isPartOf	DBTropes
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Starter Marriage / int_111d19bd	comment	The Overstory: Olivia and Davy, who get married impulsively in college and end up only being married for two years.
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The Overstory	hasFeature	Starter Marriage / int_111d19bd
Starter Marriage / int_120e4a66	type	Starter Marriage
Starter Marriage / int_120e4a66	comment	The Last Five Years tells the story of a couple from the beginning of their relationship to their divorce. The relationship fits the criteria: In Love with Love, Differing Priorities Breakup, both characters are young, divorce comes within five years.
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The Last Five Years (Theatre)	hasFeature	Starter Marriage / int_120e4a66
Starter Marriage / int_1e703d1f	type	Starter Marriage
Starter Marriage / int_1e703d1f	comment	Gilmore Girls: Dean hastily marries his girlfriend Lindsay when they're eighteen, and the marriage is soon on the rocks because they both tend to act selfish and inconsiderate towards each other, with both of them realizing they simply aren't well suited for each other. This comes to a climax when Dean cheats on his wife with Rory, his ex-girlfriend he has lingering feelings for, and they divorce soon after. Years later in the revival, Dean has moved on from Rory and is now Happily Married and has started a family.
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Starter Marriage / int_2264e890	type	Starter Marriage
Starter Marriage / int_2264e890	comment	Girls: Both Jessa and Marnie have brief, season-long marriages that end in divorce.
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Girls	hasFeature	Starter Marriage / int_2264e890
Starter Marriage / int_2350acad	type	Starter Marriage
Starter Marriage / int_2350acad	comment	Cheers: Frasier's first marriage to Nanette Guzman, which happened during their college days. It didn't last long, they split up and broke off contact. Frasier's quite surprised to meet her again, and his current wife Lilith more than a little annoyed to find Frasier had a wife he never mentioned before. Things get worse when it turns out Nanette is still very attracted to Frasier.
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Cheers	hasFeature	Starter Marriage / int_2350acad
Starter Marriage / int_261c8d3f	type	Starter Marriage
Starter Marriage / int_261c8d3f	comment	Lampshaded on an episode of The Simpsons, which shows Bart (now a teenager) in a relationship with a high school girlfriend, who mentions that they're supposed to vow to be together forever and get divorced within five years.
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The Simpsons	hasFeature	Starter Marriage / int_261c8d3f
Starter Marriage / int_277975b4	type	Starter Marriage
Starter Marriage / int_277975b4	comment	Marina Gregg's first husband Arthur Babcock in the Miss Marple novel, The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side. He was a realtor who just wasn't prepared to keep up with the lifestyle of a Hollywood star.
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Miss Marple	hasFeature	Starter Marriage / int_277975b4
Starter Marriage / int_2ba48a26	type	Starter Marriage
Starter Marriage / int_2ba48a26	comment	In an episode of Castle, this is the case for one of the suspects and his ex-wife, which he doesn't remember because he gained amnesia at the time of the murder. At the end of the story, they've decided to give it a second chance.
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Castle (2009)	hasFeature	Starter Marriage / int_2ba48a26
Starter Marriage / int_307dd523	type	Starter Marriage
Starter Marriage / int_307dd523	comment	"Scenes from an Italian Restaurant" by Billy Joel tells "The Ballad of Brenda and Eddy," High-School Sweethearts who get married and divorced, all within the summer of '75.
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The Stranger (Music)	hasFeature	Starter Marriage / int_307dd523
Starter Marriage / int_3c4ddc1e	type	Starter Marriage
Starter Marriage / int_3c4ddc1e	comment	For Better or for Worse: Anthonyâ€™s marriage to ThÃ¨rÃ©se was seen as this by everyoneâ€¦except ThÃ¨rÃ©se. Connieâ€™s marriage to the unseen Pete Landry was a short lived and unhappy affair. Initially it was implied that he was the father of Lawrence, making him a Disappeared Dad. But years later, it was retconned that Pete was just his stepfather and Lawrenceâ€™s biological father was Paolo De Sliva, a doctor in Brazil that Connie dated while on a medical aid program.
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Starter Marriage / int_3e1570ea	type	Starter Marriage
Starter Marriage / int_3e1570ea	comment	In the Alice Series, her cousin Carol got rather quickly married to a navy guy. The marriage lasted only a year and, years later, Carol admits that she rushed into the marriage, not really knowing the guy beyond finding him funny. And realizing that he was seeing other women on the side was one more reason for the divorce. Her second marriage, to Larry Swenson, is much longer-lasting and happy.
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Starter Marriage / int_4617a9f2	type	Starter Marriage
Starter Marriage / int_4617a9f2	comment	In Married... with Children, numerous times Kelly has said a variation of, "I hope my first marriage/husband goes okay."
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Starter Marriage / int_4b882a66	type	Starter Marriage
Starter Marriage / int_4b882a66	comment	St. Elsewhere: In "In Sickness and in Health", Dr. Ehrlich and Roberta "Bobby" Sloan get married after a very brief courtship. Three episodes later in "After Dark", they separate after only 16 days of marriage after they realise that they are incompatible.
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Starter Marriage / int_4f8c21d3	type	Starter Marriage
Starter Marriage / int_4f8c21d3	comment	I Give It a Year: Nat and Josh marry, and none of their friends think it will last. Their friends are correct.
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I Give It a Year	hasFeature	Starter Marriage / int_4f8c21d3
Starter Marriage / int_5d76ac67	type	Starter Marriage
Starter Marriage / int_5d76ac67	comment	From Company: Joanne's first marriage happened when she was just out of college, and apparently lasted only a year, until her husband announced that he wanted to move back to Chicago and she refused. As she tells Bobby:
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Company (Sondheim) (Theatre)	hasFeature	Starter Marriage / int_5d76ac67
Starter Marriage / int_63213484	type	Starter Marriage
Starter Marriage / int_63213484	comment	In Persepolis Marjane and her boyfriend Reza feel stifled from having to hide their relationship due to scrutiny from the Iranian police, so they decide to marry. They discover however they don't have much in common, and their marriage means she has to stay in Iran and deal with oppression from the fundamentalist government. Their eventual divorce coincides with Marji's decision to finally leave Iran for good. Fortunately, her family was never on board with the marriage in the first place for this exact reason and it's revealed her grandma she has been married thrice.
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Starter Marriage / int_6f734712	type	Starter Marriage
Starter Marriage / int_6f734712	comment	In Smallville, Jimmy and Chloe. They were very sweet together at first but gets increasingly rocky due to the involvement of first Clark, then Davis. Ends with a huge Tear Jerker when Jimmy shouts at Chloe and declares marrying her is the biggest mistake of his life.
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Starter Marriage / int_72f19882	type	Starter Marriage
Starter Marriage / int_72f19882	comment	The Flash: Played for Drama. In a flashback in Flash #197, it was revealed that Hunter Zolomon had only been married to his college sweetheart Ashley for a few months after they graduated college together and joined the FBI before Hunter's tragic mistake that cost the life of his father- in- law, causing Ashley to divorce him and him being kicked out of the FBI. Hunter still very much loves Ashley but knows it's unlikely she'll forgive him; he accepts the divorce and tries to move on with his life. Later, when Ashley learns that Hunter transformed into supervillain Zoom, she left the FBI to come to Keystone City to take over his former spot as the local metahuman profiler to help reform him—showing that she still loves him and regrets leaving him. Tragically it's implied that, had that misjudgment on Hunter's part that cost the life of his father in law never happened, Hunter and Ashley would have had a long and lasting marriage.
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Starter Marriage / int_7899c84f	type	Starter Marriage
Starter Marriage / int_7899c84f	comment	Adrian Mole: Adrian's love interest Pandora deliberately has one of these; it's a marriage of convenience, since her husband is gay, and she believes that first marriages should "be got over with quickly." Adrian's own first marriage counts as this since it lasts only a few years. He and his wife Jo Jo have too many cultural and social differences to be sustainable; he's working-class English, she's a Nigerian aristocrat. Adrian says that when she told him she'd wear "traditional dress" to the wedding, only to show up in traditional Nigerian dress (whereas he'd been expecting a white dress and veil) he knew it wasn't going to last.
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Starter Marriage / int_89b6a091	type	Starter Marriage
Starter Marriage / int_89b6a091	comment	Let Me Call You Sweetheart: Kerry's marriage to her ex-husband Bob only lasted about six years. She was willing to make things work, especially as they had a baby together, but Bob wasn't interested and quickly moved on with his second wife, who just so happened to be his new boss' daughter. In hindsight, Kerry thinks that the only good thing she got out of the relationship was their daughter.
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Starter Marriage / int_8b2ba062	type	Starter Marriage
Starter Marriage / int_8b2ba062	comment	A Cry in the Night: Jenny and Kevin's marriage was shortlived. He was Jenny's first serious boyfriend and they married shortly after she finished college when she was about 22 years old; Kevin was around the same age. Jenny unexpectedly fell pregnant with Beth shortly afterward, then had Tina a year later. Kevin wasn't remotely ready to be a father and committed husband, especially as he wanted to focus on his acting career (he even tried to talk Jenny into a termination during her first pregnancy). He moved out shortly after Tina was born and the divorce was finalized not long after that, they having only been married for less than three years. Although hurt, Jenny found that she wasn't as devastated by the divorce as she would've expected. It's implied Jenny rushed into the marriage - despite her grandmother's disapproval of Kevin - because she desperately wanted the large, supportive family she always dreamed of (while she adored her grandmother, it was just the two of them for years and Nana's death proved how fragile such a family unit can be).
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Starter Marriage / int_8e68cca9	type	Starter Marriage
Starter Marriage / int_8e68cca9	comment	Wombats in Digger have marriage forms that are friendly towards these types of relationships. Marriage contracts are generally 1 to 5 years with renewal option.
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Starter Marriage / int_9888f901	type	Starter Marriage
Starter Marriage / int_9888f901	comment	On Daria the title character's cousin Erin gets married in season two. By season five (2-3 In-Universe years later), they're getting divorced; apparently Erin only wanted to get married because the guy, Brian, gave her herpes and she didn't think anyone else would want her. Subverted, however, when they reconcile. (Except for the wedding, all of this happens off-screen, though it affects Daria and her family indirectly.)
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Starter Marriage / int_b3a3fa47	type	Starter Marriage
Starter Marriage / int_b3a3fa47	comment	Babylon 5: The relationship between Captain Sheridan and Captain Lochley is implied to have crashed and burned in no more than a couple of months.
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Starter Marriage / int_b493baca	type	Starter Marriage
Starter Marriage / int_b493baca	comment	At the end of Animal House, it is revealed that Boon and Katy got back together, and married in 1964, only to divorce in 1969. Apparently, they later marry again, divorce again, and remarry yet again.
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Animal House	hasFeature	Starter Marriage / int_b493baca
Starter Marriage / int_e6267766	type	Starter Marriage
Starter Marriage / int_e6267766	comment	They don't get married, but the romance between Wedge Antilles and Qwi Xux ends like this in Star Wars Legends. Qwi comments that almost everyone ends up in such a relationship at some point, but usually as teenagers; because of her recent forced memory loss and his teenage enlistment in the Rebel Alliance they never really had the opportunity.
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Starter Marriage / int_f6c05e8e	type	Starter Marriage
Starter Marriage / int_f6c05e8e	comment	Friends: This is a Running Gag for Ross. The show starts with Ross confirming he and his wife Carol are now divorced after she came out as a lesbian. They were married for four years. However, she is pregnant at the time, and they go on to co-parent their son and stay in each other's lives as Amicable Exes, making it a Downplayed Trope. Ross then marries Emily in a Fourth-Date Marriage, and she divorces him for accidentally saying Rachel's name at the altar. Eventually, Ross and Rachel marry — because they were very drunk, in Vegas, and thought it would be funny. Once sober, they then divorce. At this point, the gang agree that Ross's "thing" is to be "the guy that gets divorced".
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The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

Starter Marriage	processingCategory2	Cynicism Tropes
Starter Marriage	processingCategory2	Marriage Tropes
Starter Marriage	processingCategory2	The Ex Index
Starter Marriage	processingCategory2	Wedding and Engagement Tropes
Hunter Zolomon (Comic Book) / int_78d3ddf4	type	Starter Marriage
Animal House / int_78d3ddf4	type	Starter Marriage
A Cry in the Night / int_78d3ddf4	type	Starter Marriage
Adrian Mole / int_78d3ddf4	type	Starter Marriage
Cormoran Strike Novels / int_78d3ddf4	type	Starter Marriage
On the Street Where You Live / int_78d3ddf4	type	Starter Marriage
The Hike (2023) / int_78d3ddf4	type	Starter Marriage
The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side / int_78d3ddf4	type	Starter Marriage
The Overstory / int_78d3ddf4	type	Starter Marriage
The Paper Magician / int_78d3ddf4	type	Starter Marriage
Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica / int_78d3ddf4	type	Starter Marriage
St. Elsewhere / int_78d3ddf4	type	Starter Marriage
The Orville / int_78d3ddf4	type	Starter Marriage
Company (Sondheim) (Theatre) / int_78d3ddf4	type	Starter Marriage
The Last Five Years (Theatre) / int_78d3ddf4	type	Starter Marriage
Digger (Webcomic) / int_78d3ddf4	type	Starter Marriage
Daria / int_78d3ddf4	type	Starter Marriage
Smallville / int_78d3ddf4	type	Starter Marriage

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