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{{trope}}
{{quote|''"...as [[Chris Rock]] put it best, 'Good relationships are boring.' The problem is that good relationships are also almost always an inverted spectrum of the [[Star-Crossed Lovers|rocky courtship]], [[Happily Married|happy marriage process]] we see in movies. In fact, any list of reasons why people get divorced suggests that dating is too easy. The problem is not that good couples get screwed over by circumstances. [[Love Makes You Stupid|Love, like a cocaine addict, will find a way.]] The real problem is that couples pass through the dating process, arrive at the part where they're supposed to live [[Happily Ever After]] and find themselves blindsided by things like differences over money or the fact that one doesn't want kids and the other is a Mormon."''|'''''[[Cracked.com]]''''', [http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-things-that-are-way-easier-than-they-look-in-movies/ "5 Things That Are Way Easier Than They Look In Movies"]}}
So the [[Official Couple]] (or [[Beta Couple]]) finally answered [[Will They or Won't They?]]: [[They Do]]. Our couple has fallen madly in love, carted off to their honeymoon and are probably getting started with that whole "[[Babies Ever After]]" thing. [[Happily Ever After|A happy, feel-good time is had by all, right?]]
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What the hell happened?!
Simple.
[[Ending Fatigue|This is the dark side]] of the [[Snicket Warning Label]]. [[Long Runner|The longer characters continue to have their stories told]], the more likely they are to succumb to [[Diabolus Ex Machina]]. Because otherwise, conventional wisdom holds, there would be little personal conflict. So, if you want to enjoy believing that your [[Fan-Preferred Couple]] finally beat their [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]] and lived [[Happily Ever After]], you'd better stop reading/watching/playing right after it happens. While a couple will do almost whatever it takes to ''get together'', the longer the story goes on, the less likely they'll conquer their problems to ''stay together.''
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This is most likely to apply to a [[Super Couple]].
Related to [[Victory Is Boring]] and [[Failure Is the Only Option]], which cover plot conflicts ''not'' associated with romance. [[Disposable Woman]], [[Dead Little Sister]], and [[Death
For a less depressing view, many of the couples on [[Happily Married]] are aversions of this trope.
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== Comics ==
* [[Joe Quesada]] has actually stated that certain characters (particularly [[Ant-Man]], [[Spider-Man]], and Cyclops in the ''[[X-Men]]'') are "more interesting" without their wives. You might want to check out the ''[[One More Day]]'' page for more information on how one was done.
* [[Hawkeye]] and Mockingbird. She "died", but that turned out to be [[Actually a Doombot|Actually A Skrull]]. Since then, the couple has been reunited and then promptly divorced.
* Like Spidey above, [[Superman]] will also have his marriage [[Retcon
* [[Nova]] and Namorita. Broke up years before her death, then she came back. Now ''he's'' dead.
** Like their fellow [[New Warriors]], Justice and Firestar also count. According to the writer who put them together in the first place, Fabian Nicieza, he had always intended for them to break up anyway. However, he left the book before that happened, and subsequent writers eventually married them just before they joined [[The Avengers (Comic Book)|The Avengers]] as a [[Battle Couple]]. [[Kurt Busiek]], in particular, liked to write them as an introspective of what it's like to be superhero newlyweds in the [[Marvel Universe]]. However, Nicieza later ended up writing the two again, and the first thing he promptly did was break them up. In fact, the story that finally [[Ship Sinking|sank their ship]] for good is a time-traveling story in which the newly-married Justice and Firestar [[Future Me Scares Me|are downright]] ''[[Future Me Scares Me|terrified]]'' of how cold they've become to each other in the future.
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== Literature ==
* In ''[[The Dark Tower
== Live Action TV ==
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Total Drama]],'' definitely. The first season ended happily, which included six couples having formed. In season two, however: [[Sassy Black Woman|Leshawna]] breaks up with [[Geek|Harold]], and then becomes a [[Designated Villain]] so that he {{spoiler|helps vote her off}}. [[Chick Magnet|Trent]] and [[Perky Goth|Gwen]] break up when he suddenly develops an OCD obsession with the number nine. [[Surfer Dude|Geoff]] gets [[Acquired Situational Narcissism]] all season, straining his relationship with [[Granola Girl|Bridgette]]. [[Well, Excuse Me, Princess!|Courtney]] [[Took a Level
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