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At times the woman ''will'' ask the man some transparent question, such as, "Did you spend the night with Dorothy?" Unfortunately, the man doesn't actually get ''why'' she's asking, and in responding with detail-free answers - or answers with the ''wrong'' details ("Why, yes - we got a lot of exercise ''that'' night. Good thing, 'cuz I was getting pretty cold.") - merely confirms the woman's fears. The woman, of course, never asks clarifying questions that would resolve the matter, and the man never picks up on the fact that he ''needs'' to clarify because he [[I Do Not Speak Nonverbal|does not speak nonverbal]] - in fact, sometimes he'll believe that the woman knows exactly what's going on to begin with, hence the lack of necessary detail.

And of course, the woman never wonders why, if he was cheating on her, he'd just casually admit to it like that, being that he hasn't displayed [[Jerkass]] traits before.

* This is one of the problems in Akane Tendo's relationship with Ranma Saotome, of ''[[Ranma One Half½]]''. She is willing to see the worst of anything slightly suspicious that Ranma does, something Ranma has actually [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] in the anime, [[Covert Pervert|jump to perverse conclusions]] about Ranma's goals/intentions/motivations, has been shown to [[Selective Obliviousness|consciously ignore elements of Ranma's own attempts at self-defense to prove her point and selectively remember events to further back up her opinions]] (manga version of Hinako's introduction), and believe the lies of people like Shampoo and Ukyo... who, by the way, are her devout '''rivals''' for Ranma's hand.

{{quote| '''Piggy''': If you don't know why I'm mad, there's no point in me telling you, is there?<br />

* A nonromantic variant gets played with in one issue of ''[[Catwoman]].'' The Trickster phones in a tip to the media that gives away her identity as mayoral candidate Selina Kyle, and she flies into a rage at him for outing her--andher—and then it turns out that it was meant as a generic political smear campaign and the identification was a coincidence. {{spoiler|And then he legitimately figures it out.}}

{{quote| '''Catwoman''': How did you ''know?!''<br />

'''Trickster''': Er... know what?<br />

'''Catwoman''': Don't play ''games'' with me!<br />

'''Trickster''': Please, God, oh please, help me figure out what she's talking about...<br />

'''Catwoman''': You... you just... made it all ''up''...?<br />

** However, Dexter has just recently revealed that he is a drug addict and he has been lying to her about things to hide his addiction. So it is not much of a stretch for her to believe that he would cheat on her as well. At least she does not find out that he is lying about being a drug addict and is actually a serial killer.

{{quote| '''Marsha:''' If you don't tell her, then I will.<br />

'''Tim:''' But you'll spoil the surprise!<br />

* In an episode of ''[[Doug]]'', the title character manages to destroy a condemned house [[With This Herring|with a single rock]] to impress [[Oblivious to Love|Patti]]. However, this causes her to hate him for the duration of the episode because {{spoiler|it was ''her'' old house back when her mother was still alive.}} The episode is exacerbated because Patti (and later Bebe, who asks her about it on Doug's request) refuse to pass that information onto Doug.

* Parodied in ''[[Drawn Together]]''. A housemate will make a disparaging remark about Tori Spelling, to which another housemate will ask "why you dissing on Tori?" The response is "she knows what she did" followed by dramatic background music.