Your Cheating Heart: Difference between revisions

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[[File:cheating_heart_9967.jpg|frame|[[Up to Eleven|His right hand is offering a wedding ring to a third girl offscreen.]]]]

 

{{quote|''Your cheatin' heart will make you weep,

 

Two-timing, playing away from home, having a bit on the side, going behind your partner's back, adultery, infidelity... There are a lot of names for cheating on your partner, but most of them have the same outcome: [[Love Hurts|a world of hurt.]]

 

See also [[Mistaken for Cheating]], [[The Unfair Sex]], [[The Mistress]]. This is generally the #7 scenario of [[Triang Relations]].

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== Anime and Manga ==

* In ''[[Victorian Romance Emma]],'' William is technically guilty of this as well, despite being sympathetic. Told to give up on his love for Emma, he proposes (under duress, it has to be said) to a more "suitable" [[Proper Lady]], Eleanor. On reuniting with Emma however, he continues their chaste love affair while he is still officially betrothed to Eleanor, until he finally breaks the engagement.

* Cheating, or rather, paranoia about being cheated on, is a source of humour in ''[[Kyou Kara Maou]]'' -- Yuri's [[Crazy Jealous Guy|jealous]] male fiance, Wolfram, calls him "cheater" so often it's practically a nickname. In fact, Yuri only has to be nice to anyone, of either sex, to set Wolfram on a rampage. Whether Yuri is actually ''capable'' of cheating, however, depends on whether the viewer considers their accidental engagement valid or not.

 

== Myth And Legend ==

* Pick a Greek myth. Any Greek myth. From Zeus (married to [[Brother-Sister Incest|his sister, Hera]]) seducing or outright raping everyone, male or female, to Aphrodite (married to long-suffering Hephaestus) and her relationship with Ares, to Paris eloping with Helen of Troy, the wife of Menelaus... no wonder there were so many children [[Heroic Bastard|of questionable parentage]] running around.

* Over in Norse mythology, we have Sif- married to Thor, and though it was never confirmed to be true or false, Loki at one point accused her of sleeping with him ("Only I know, as I think I do know/Your love besides Thor/And that was the wicked Loki!"). She says nothing, and then another goddess starts talking. And in an earlier myth, Odin (in disguise) said to Thor the equivalent of "Hey, no need to hurry home to your wife or anything, because she's got someone else to keep her bed warm!" Both times, Thor was understandably pissed.

 

== Theatre ==

* In ''Street Scene'', Mrs. Maurrant is [[Cheating with the Milkman]], who the neighbors point out is himself married with two children. Her daughter Rose is aggressively propositioned by her boss, Harry Easter, who tells her that his wife doesn't need to know about anything he's planning.

* In ''[[Chicago]]'', Roxie is cheating on her husband Amos with Fred Casely, a married man whom she shoots to death at the start of the play; Amos grudgingly stands by his wife until she decides to draw sympathy in her murder trial by pretending to be pregnant. The musical also has [http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/chicago/cellblocktango.htm Cell Block Tango], which contains a minimum of four affairs, depending on how you count it.

 

== Video Games ==

* You can accidentally (or not) do this in ''[[Dragon Age]]'' ''Origins''. Picking any of the more flirtatious dialogue options with a potential Love Interest will make them think you're in a relationship. If you're ''already'' involved with someone, you'll eventually be forced to choose; losing approval with the one you give up.

** If a female PC woos Alistair {{spoiler|and later arranges for him to marry Anora}}, they can stay together. Alternatively, if a female human noble {{spoiler|marries Alistair}}, but romanced Zevran, the same situation can happen in reverse. In both cases, it's an affair out of a political marriage, rather than a romantic relationship, which has different implications.

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