Awful Wedded Life



That depends on the story, but sometimes the main protagonist married the villainess or married the wrong girl. The depiction of monogamous marriage as rather like a long, slow, exquisite torture by a sadistic god from whose malicious clutches escape is impossible.

Husbands are child-like buffoons who watch too much football, leave the toilet seat up, ogle hot women and forget anniversaries. Wives are frigid, nagging, hateful shrews with zero interest in sex.

Children destroy your home and what little peace of mind you have left, while waiting their turn to perpetuate the cycle.

Obnoxious In-Laws serve to add to the misery. The audience may be left wondering, "Why don't they just get a divorce, if they're so miserable?"

Sometimes at the end, they work out their marriage or divorce them by moving on and find the right girl like your childhood sweetheart.

Examples

 * In The Hangover, Phil, who misses life before marriage and kids, tells Doug that once he gets married, he's going to start dying a little inside every day. He also discourages Stu from marrying his Control Freak girlfriend.
 * Norbit have a terrible marriage with Rasptuan after they got married in their adult years until they got divorced at the end when Norbit remarried to his childhood sweetheart Kate.