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Your true love promised [[I Will Wait for You]], but you've just heard she's getting married! [[Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder|Is she really that fickle]]?
Your true love promised [[I Will Wait for You]], but you've just heard she's getting married! [[Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder|Is she really that fickle]]?


No, not really. It's just that she's not allowed to not marry. She may have held out as long as she could and just been forced -- or at least coerced -- into marriage.
No, not really. It's just that she's not allowed to not marry. She may have held out as long as she could and just been forced—or at least coerced—into marriage.


They may have told her "[[You Have Waited Long Enough]]" -- if, indeed, they were even aware that she had promised to wait.
They may have told her "You Have Waited Long Enough"—if, indeed, they were even aware that she had promised to wait.


Good thing that you can show up [[Wedding Deadline|in time for the wedding]], isn't it? This can be the wedding itself, or even the wedding feast, for maximum drama, as long as it is in time to stop the marriage being consummated. Other works may have the true love arrive with as much as several days to spare.
Good thing that you can show up [[Wedding Deadline|in time for the wedding]], isn't it? This can be the wedding itself, or even the wedding feast, for maximum drama, as long as it is in time to stop the marriage being consummated. Other works may have the true love arrive with as much as several days to spare.


Common in situations where [[Arranged Marriage]] is the practice. Though [[Will|wills]] with deadlines to marry may also come into play, and family situations where pressure to marry is expected. (If the characters are sympathetic, they may be believe the love to be dead, or be unaware of the relationship.) Royalty may face considerable pressure from courtiers and others who [[Heir Club for Men|expect an heir to the throne]]; a prince or princess may face [[I Want Grandkids|double pressure from their parents]].
Common in situations where [[Arranged Marriage]] is the practice. Though [[will]]s with deadlines to marry may also come into play, and family situations where pressure to marry is expected. (If the characters are sympathetic, they may be believe the love to be dead, or be unaware of the relationship.) Royalty may face considerable pressure from courtiers and others who [[Heir Club for Men|expect an heir to the throne]]; a prince or princess may face [[I Want Grandkids|double pressure from their parents]].


The heroine may sacrifice herself because her heart is broken, believing the true love to be dead; in that case, the match can be made very quickly after the reported death.
The heroine may sacrifice herself because her heart is broken, believing the true love to be dead; in that case, the match can be made very quickly after the reported death.
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== [[Literature]] ==
== [[Literature]] ==
* [[Charles Dickens]]'s ''The Cricket in the Hearth''
* [[Charles Dickens]]'s ''The Cricket in the Hearth''
* In "[http://www.classicreader.com/book/56/10/ The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor]" [[Sherlock Holmes]] is called in when a bride disappears within hours after the wedding ceremony. He deduces the existence of the true love, tracks down the couple -- who had actually been married before, but she believed him dead -- and persuades them to come clean to the rejected bridegroom.
* In "[http://www.classicreader.com/book/56/10/ The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor]" [[Sherlock Holmes]] is called in when a bride disappears within hours after the wedding ceremony. He deduces the existence of the true love, tracks down the couple—who had actually been married before, but she believed him dead—and persuades them to come clean to the rejected bridegroom.
* In [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]]'s ''[[John Carter of Mars|A Princess Of Mars]]'', Dejah Thoris agrees to marry another prince, believing John Carter to be dead. He appears and leads on an attack on the city to free her -- carefully assuring that someone else kills the prince, since she would be forbidden to marry the man who killed her fiancee.
* In [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]]'s ''[[John Carter of Mars|A Princess Of Mars]]'', Dejah Thoris agrees to marry another prince, believing John Carter to be dead. He appears and leads on an attack on the city to free her—carefully assuring that someone else kills the prince, since she would be forbidden to marry the man who killed her fiancee.
* In the [[Chivalric Romance]] ''King Horn'', when Horn left his childhood sweetheart, she gave him a magical ring that let him know that he had not lost her. When it changed color, he hurried back and found her being forced to marry.
* In the [[Chivalric Romance]] ''King Horn'', when Horn left his childhood sweetheart, she gave him a magical ring that let him know that he had not lost her. When it changed color, he hurried back and found her being forced to marry.
* In "The Sworn Sword" by George R.R. Martin, Lady Rohanne (a.k.a. the Red Widow) will lose her lands if she doesn't remarry by deadline.
* In "The Sworn Sword" by George R.R. Martin, Lady Rohanne (a.k.a. the Red Widow) will lose her lands if she doesn't remarry by deadline.
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