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{{quote| "''Take my wife.'' '''Please!'''"}}
 
A species of [[Dom Com]] based on the premise that monogamous marriage is rather like a long, slow, exquisite torture by a sadistic god from whose maleficent clutches escape is impossible. Husbands are [[Bumbling Dad|child-like buffoons]] who watch too much football, leave the toilet seat up, [[All Men Are Perverts|ogle hot women]], and forget anniversaries. Wives are frigid, nagging, [[Jerkass|hateful shrews]] with [[All Women Are Prudes|zero interest in sex]]. [[Kids Are Cruel|Chil]][[Teens Are Monsters|dren]] destroy your home and what little peace of mind you have left, while waiting their turn to perpetuate the cycle. [[Obnoxious in In-Laws]] serve to add to the misery. The audience may be left wondering, [[Just Eat Gilligan|"Why don't they just get a divorce, if they're so miserable?"]]
 
''[[Married With Children]]'' was probably the first time this trope was seen on American television, but it's been a mainstay of [[British Telly Tropes|British shows]] since [[The Fifties]].
 
The name, for those who don't get it, is a reference to the line of the traditional wedding vows, "Lawful wedded life."
{{examples|Examples}}
 
== Comedy ==