| rdfs:comment | - Basic Trope: A character stays with their significant other despite their major, major flaws.
* Straight: Alice is dating Bob, who is violent, abusive, and drinks like a fish. She stays with him because she truly loves him.
* Exaggerated: Bob beats Alice bloody and has nearly killed her on more than one occasion, but she sticks with him.
* Downplayed: Bob is kind of a jerk, but Alice stays with him.
* Justified: Bob really does have a very deeply Hidden Heart of Gold, and Alice is trying to bring that out of him.
* Alice has incredibly poor self-esteem and thinks she can't do any better.
* One or both grew up in a household where their parents were going through a similar situation, so they think it's normal.
* Bob is forcing Alice to stay through bribery, blackma
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| abstract | - Basic Trope: A character stays with their significant other despite their major, major flaws.
* Straight: Alice is dating Bob, who is violent, abusive, and drinks like a fish. She stays with him because she truly loves him.
* Exaggerated: Bob beats Alice bloody and has nearly killed her on more than one occasion, but she sticks with him.
* Downplayed: Bob is kind of a jerk, but Alice stays with him.
* Justified: Bob really does have a very deeply Hidden Heart of Gold, and Alice is trying to bring that out of him.
* Alice has incredibly poor self-esteem and thinks she can't do any better.
* One or both grew up in a household where their parents were going through a similar situation, so they think it's normal.
* Bob is forcing Alice to stay through bribery, blackmail, and/or intimitation.
* Alice and Bob are in an Arranged Marriage and if she leaves him, her family will disown her.
* Alice's parents arranged the matched and brainwashed her into overlooking all of Bob's faults no matter how severe.
* Inverted: Bob is a saint, but Alice refuses to stay with him because she thinks she doesn't deserve him.
* Subverted: Alice puts up with some of Bob's shenanigans, but leaves after things get too hairy.
* Double Subverted: Then she comes back after a while, because she feels like Bob needs her.
* Parodied: Bob threatens Alice with a switchblade, beats her silly, and drinks until he blacks out, but she just ignores it for the sake of love...until he leaves the toilet seat up.
* Zig Zagged: ???
* Averted: Alice leaves after the first sign that Bob appears to be evil.
* Enforced: "Like, OMG! This fanfic about Bob and Alice is gonna be soooo good! I'll just have her say that she loves him when she gets beaten!"
* Lampshaded: "Let me guess, you love him, right? That's why you keep letting him do that?"
* Invoked: ???
* Exploited: Bob is truly a horrible person, but he makes sure to undermine Alice's self-esteem to the point where she feels like she can't do any better.
* Defied: "If you hit me again, I'm gone. I don't care if we're dating."
* Discussed: ???
* Conversed: ???
* Played For Drama: It almost always is. "Why are you going back to Love Martyr? That's a horrible page!" "No it's not! You just haven't seen the real page, beneath the surface!"
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