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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro ni]]'', Krauss and Natsuhi apparently do not share a bed and sleep in separate bedrooms.
* At the end of ''[[Turn A Gundam|Turn a Gundam]]'' this is how Loran and Dianna end up.
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* In ''[[Fate/Zero]]'', the marriage Saber (aka [[King Arthur|Arturia Pendragon]]) had with Guinevere was devoid of sex due to the fact that [[Sweet Polly Oliver|Saber had to conceal her gender in order to be King]]. It was because of this that Guinevere started looking for love in other places - Lancelot, for example.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* In the French comic ''[[Blacksad]]'', the second arc features a preacher about whom rumors of pedophilia abound, because of further rumors that he and his wife have never slept together. {{spoiler|The former are false, but the latter are most definitely true: It's because ''she'' knows, but ''he'' doesn't, that he's actually her father; their marriage was part of an elaborate plan by the daughter to get revenge on him for the way he treated her black mother after he started buying into white supremacist rhetoric. In this case the romantic implications ''are'' brought up, but that was kind of the idea to begin with.}}▼
▲* In the French comic Blacksad, the second arc features a preacher about whom rumors of pedophilia abound, because of further rumors that he and his wife have never slept together. {{spoiler|The former are false, but the latter are most definitely true: It's because ''she'' knows, but ''he'' doesn't, that he's actually her father; their marriage was part of an elaborate plan by the daughter to get revenge on him for the way he treated her black mother after he started buying into white supremacist rhetoric. In this case the romantic implications ''are'' brought up, but that was kind of the idea to begin with.}}
== Film ==▼
== [[Fan Works]] ==
* Genma and Nodoka Saotome in the ''[[Ranma ½]]'' story series ''[[Tales of Ranma and Ranko]]'' -- to the point that late in the last extant story, Nodoka sues for divorce on the grounds of ''non-consummation''. (Ranma, it turns out, is the son of a [[Traveling Salesman]] who is also Ryoga's father.)
▲== [[Film]] ==
* Archie and his wife in ''[[A Fish Called Wanda]]''
* ''[[Mean Girls]]'' - one of the secrets that Gretchen lets slip about Regina is "her parents totally don't sleep in the same bed anymore".
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* The protagonist in ''[[Extract]]'' has a great deal of sexual frustration due to this trope.
* Lester and Carolyn Burnham in ''[[American Beauty]]'', hence Lester's [[A Date with Rosie Palms|morning habit]] (and [[Your Cheating Heart|Carolyn's afternoon habit]]). They ''do'' attempt to get it on once, but Carolyn's desire to keep the sofa clean puts the kibosh on that.
* At one point in the 1981 comedy ''[[The Incredible Shrinking Woman]]'', her depressed-looking husband is shown sitting in bed reading a book titled "Marriage Without Sex".
== Literature ==▼
▲== [[Literature]] ==
* Emperor Paul Muad'Dib and Princess Irulan in ''[[Dune]]'', while Paul's "real" wife, Chani, is a [[Hot Consort]] who is his wife in everything but name. Of course, Paul and Irulan were never in love in the first place (at least on Paul's side) and they both knew that the marriage was purely political, not to mention that Paul knew that sleeping with her would just play into the [[Evilutionary Biologist|Bene Gesserit's]] plans. Despite mostly ignoring her he does seem to at least somewhat care for her, and in ''Dune Messiah'' {{spoiler|spares her when the details of the conspiracy she was involved in, in particular Chani's infertility due to Irulan feeding her contraceptives and later [[Death by Childbirth]], come out into the open, and he has to talk Chani out of having Irulan killed with the rest of the conspirators}}. It seems that at the very least he values her as an adviser, and after {{spoiler|he exiles himself}} Irulan refers to him with some affection.
* In ''[[The Dark Tower/Wizard and Glass|Wizard and Glass]]'' from [[The Dark Tower]] series, mayor Thorin and his wife Olive have stopped sleeping together a long time ago, as he began pursuing younger women.
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* In ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (novel)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'', Esmeralda marries Pierre Gringoire only to save his life, and doesn't let him touch her. He accepts that pretty easily.
* In ''[[Tobacco Road]]'', Lov's wife Pearl refuses to sleep with him, and doesn't even let him touch her.
* In ''[[The Mercy Room]]'', the protagonist is in a completely sexless unromantic marriage. It's not that they don't like their spouse, it's just the protagonist simply never felt anything for them. Eventually the spouse commits suicide and the protagonist goes on rather unaffected.
* Karl Oskar and Kristina in "[[The Emigrants|The Last Letter Home]]" after it becomes clear that Kristina won't survive another pregnancy. It doesn't last for long however.
* Implied to be the case in Laura's [[Arranged Marriage]] in ''[[The Woman in White]]''—her [[Gold Digger]] of a husband assures his friend there's no chance of his wife limiting his access to her money by producing heirs.
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* ''[[In Death]]'' series: ''Imitation In Death'' reveals that {{spoiler|Pamela and Niles}} have this sort of marriage. They pretty much hate each other's guts. Here's the kicker... {{spoiler|Pamela is an [[Ice Queen]] with a total [[Lack of Empathy]] who knows that her husband is the psychopath and a [[Serial Killer]], as well as knowing that he rapes the nanny, using his wife's frigidness as an excuse. Pamela does not care, because at least it doesn't affect her own little world. To add to the heinousness of the situation, they have a kid, and while the kid hasn't been harmed, Pamela didn't even think about kid's safety and well-being once}}!
* This was an [[Enforced Trope]] in American TV before the 1970s, Married couples couldn't even be shown in the ''same bed'', let alone admit to having more of a love life than was absolutely required for any children on the show.
▲== Live Action TV ==
* In ''[[Frasier]]'', Niles and Maris don't even sleep in the same room.
* In ''[[Kaamelott]]'', Arthur hasn't touched Gueneviere since their wedding, which hasn't stopped him from sleeping with just about every other woman in the castle or his in-laws from repeatedly slipping them fertility potions.
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* Tobias and Lindsay in ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]''.
* Heavily implied between Salvatore Romano and his wife in ''[[Mad Men]]''. In fact it appears that the two of them barely even speak.
* Klinger and his first wife,
* Londo Mollari, the Centauri Ambassador to ''[[Babylon 5]]'', has three loveless marriages. He purposefully left all three of them back on Homeworld when he went to Babylon 5, and no matter how bad things seem at the station the thought that the three are back home waiting for him makes him firmly want to stay there.
▲== Theater ==
* In ''[[A Little Night Music]]'', Fredrik and Anne's marriage lasts for eleven months without being consummated, though they both consider attempting it.
* In ''[[The Little Foxes]]'', Regina has not let her husband sleep with her since ten years before the events of the play. She claimed that there was something medically wrong with her, and hated him for believing her lie.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* Hard to say just how long it lasts, but definitely longer than it should: in ''[[Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice]]'', after {{spoiler|Almaz and Sapphire}} get married, and part-way through the honeymoon, {{spoiler|Almaz}} complains that he hasn't even had the opportunity to ''kiss'' his wife yet. Implied not to be because the couple is not in love, but probably because the husband is the universe's ultimate [[Butt Monkey]].
* Female!Hawke could have something like this in [[Dragon Age II]] if she romances Sebastian, who took a vow of chastity before meeting her.
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'''Sebastian''': Yes love... [[Think Unsexy Thoughts|rein it in.]] }}
== [[Western Animation]] ==
▲* [[Family Guy|Stewie]] and his "wife" Olivia.
{{quote|'''Stewie:''' No, no, it's... it's nothing, just had Play-Doh spaghetti last night (pauses) (under breath, looking away) and that's ''all'' we had last night.
'''Olivia:''' What does that mean?
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'''Stewie:''' That's not the point! Don't change the...[[Anatomically-Impossible Sex|it's a]] [[Is It Something You Eat?|kind of cake]]? }}
** In the episode "The Perfect Castaway", when Peter disappears at sea and declared dead, Lois and Brian get married but don't have sex (though he would really like to).
* In an episode of ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' when Milhouse's parents Kirk and Luann were still married, after purchasing some of Grandpa's tonic, Kirk remarks: "Tonight, we'll push the twin beds together." This may have been [[Foreshadowing]] of the upcoming divorce storyline.
** After Apu cheated on Manjula, they still slept in the same bed, but with considerable distance between them.
* Double D's parents in ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]]''.
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