Mistaken for Cheating/Playing With

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    Basic Trope: A character believes his/her significant other is cheating on them.

    • Straight: Alice sees her boyfriend Bob and his friend Claire alone together and assumes he's cheating.
    • Exaggerated: Bob strikes up an innocuous conversation with Claire, which arouses Alice's suspicions.
    • Justified: Alice's previous boyfriend cheated on her, so she's more likely to assume other guys are cheating.
      • Or Bob has a known history of cheating of his girlfriends, but is working hard to amend his ways.
    • Inverted: Bob and Claire make out in front of Alice - and she doesn't suspect a thing.
    • Subverted: It turns out Bob really was cheating on Alice.
    • Double Subverted: With her clone.
    • Parodied: Alice, of all people, turns out to be the other woman.
    • Deconstructed: Alice's constant suspicions start to derail the relationship and end up destroying it, as the constantly-faithful Bob decides he's had enough of it.
    • Reconstructed: Claire is eventually able to prove Bob's innocence, leading Claire to try to win Bob back over and repair their relationship.
    • Zig Zagged: However, it turns out Bob really WAS cheating on her, with Alice's Sister, who asked Claire to tell Alice nothing happened between Claire and Bob.
    • Averted: Alice doesn't assume Bob is cheating.
    • Enforced: "Alice and Bob are happy, right? We can't have that!"
    • Lampshaded: "I hope Alice doesn't think there's anything between us!"
    • Invoked: When Bob believes Alice is losing interest in him, he starts hanging around with Claire to make her jealous.
    • Defied: Bob refuses to even do anything that could be construed as romantic with any other females, because he doesn't want to make Alice assume anything.
    • Discussed: "It's all a mistake! I wasn't cheating!"
    • Conversed: "Oh, wow, another plot where she thinks he's cheating on her."

    Honey, I can explain the Lipstick Mark, the bra in my bed, and the photos! Just go back to Mistaken for Cheating!

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