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* Lily dumps Marshal shortly before their wedding and runs off to SanFrancisco at the end of season I of How I Met Your Mother. She returns, begging forgiveness at the beginning of Season II. To the show's credit, the damage she caused Marshal isn't [[HandWave Hand Waved]], and she spends much of the beginning of season II getting back into Marshal's and Ted's good graces. [[YourMileageMayVary YMMV]] as to whether any amount of groveling is enough to outweigh such an offence. Since the show is told in flashback, we already know Marsh and Lily end up together.

* Aversion in ''The Break Up'': Gary tries to get Brooke back, despite having been a total jerk from the beginning, with a nice dinner and a speech about how he's changed. Then it looks like she's about to take him back... but doesn't. And it's a much better movie for it.
** It should be noted that he ''has'' changed, and they end the relationship on very good terms.

* GoodLuckChuck has our "good guy" Chuck veer off in a tear of obsessive, controling, paranoid and downright creepy-stalker behavior after spending the night with Cam. She forgives him for some reason.

* ''{{Hitch}}'' has the reporter, who spends most of the film trying to expose Hitch by pretending to be (and really) falling for him. She ends up exposing him, destroying his anonymity and business, and almost destroys another relationship. She does so under the misguided belief that Hitch only helped jerks get laid based on ''one'' incident where she only had half the facts (the jerk acted on his own) where a friend of hers got hurt, proving she is a lousy, not to mention unethical, reporter; you don't write a story with one viewpoint, and you don't write a story you're ''personally involved in''. All of which [[WhatTheHellHero Hitch calls her out on]], as well women like her making dating impossible for ordinary guys. Although she later gives him a heartfelt apology, Hitch very deservedly refuses to accept it. What should have turned out to be a Crowning Moment of Awesome, ends in a major cliche---when Hitch later ''[[WallBanger goes to her door to beg for her forgiveness!]]''

** She didn't know Hitch was "The Date Doctor" until he showed up at a sting she was setting up for expose on him. The reason she dropped all pretense of professionalism was that she thought he had been PLAYING HER all along using his seduction skills. Hitch refuses to accept her apology because of the damage done to his clients/friends relationships by her reveal, but when that is resolved/fixed he realizes how much he loved her and how little the rest of it matters to him.

* Miroku from {{Inuyasha}} keeps ignoring Sango while constantly asking women to bear his child and repeatedly strokes her butt knowing she doesn;t like it, getting himself slapped over and over because of it. When he does ask Sango to live with him and bear his children, he can;t even get himself to promise he'll stop womanizing! Yet Sango is constantly jealous when she sees him flirting with other women before their "engagement", and ends up married to him at the end, a HOUSEWIFE (??????) and the moth of his three children! WHY, Sango, WHY?!?!

* Miroku from [[Inuyasha]] keeps ignoring Sango while constantly asking women to bear his child and repeatedly strokes her butt knowing she doesn;t like it, getting himself slapped over and over because of it. When he does ask Sango to live with him and bear his children, he can;t even get himself to promise he'll stop womanizing! Yet Sango is constantly jealous when she sees him flirting with other women before their "engagement", and ends up married to him at the end, a HOUSEWIFE (??????) and the moth of his three children! WHY, Sango, WHY?!?!

* Miroku from [[''Inuyasha'']] keeps ignoring Sango while constantly asking women to bear his child and repeatedly strokes her butt knowing she doesn;t like it, getting himself slapped over and over because of it. When he does ask Sango to live with him and bear his children, he can;t even get himself to promise he'll stop womanizing! Yet Sango is constantly jealous when she sees him flirting with other women before their "engagement", and ends up married to him at the end, a HOUSEWIFE (??????) and the moth of his three children! WHY, Sango, WHY?!?!

* Miroku from {{''Inuyasha''}} keeps ignoring Sango while constantly asking women to bear his child and repeatedly strokes her butt knowing she doesn;t like it, getting himself slapped over and over because of it. When he does ask Sango to live with him and bear his children, he can;t even get himself to promise he'll stop womanizing! Yet Sango is constantly jealous when she sees him flirting with other women before their "engagement", and ends up married to him at the end, a HOUSEWIFE (??????) and the moth of his three children! WHY, Sango, WHY?!?!

* Miroku from ''Inuyasha'' keeps ignoring Sango while constantly asking women to bear his child and repeatedly strokes her butt knowing she doesn;t like it, getting himself slapped over and over because of it. When he does ask Sango to live with him and bear his children, he can;t even get himself to promise he'll stop womanizing! Yet Sango is constantly jealous when she sees him flirting with other women before their "engagement", and ends up married to him at the end, a HOUSEWIFE (??????) and the moth of his three children! WHY, Sango, WHY?!?!

All this means she'd be perfectly within her rights to have him dance the humiliation conga some more, but because she's 'kinder than him' she forgives him almost right off the bat, and admittedly the music makes it a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming. (One only wonders how long he's going to stay faithful ''this'' time...)

* A few people who read ''{{Pride and Prejudice}}'' never forgive Mr. Darcy for his behavior in his first scene. Granted, it takes the heroine nearly the entire book to get over it, but what kind of monster loudly calls a young woman unattractive, to her face, in front of a large group of people she knows?
** A somewhat one-sided view. The narration makes it clear that Elizabeth was eavesdropping on a private conversation between Darcy and Bingley, and as [[{{Narnia}} Aslan]] tells us, eavesdroppers rarely hear compliments to themselves. It ''is'' slightly ambiguous as to whether [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Darcy]] was aware of her eavesdropping.

** [[TheNostalgiaCritic This guy is ASS SCUM!]]

* In the movie version of ''{{Jumper}}'', the heroine isn't all that bright to begin with, after accepting an immediate trip to Rome with a [[TheScrappy man]] who just reappeared without explanation after being missing for eight years with tons and tons of cash. Then she gets chased around the Coliseum by assassins, put on a plane when she asks for an explanation, gets kidnapped ''by the hero'' from her own apartment, gets caught in the middle of a gun and flamethrower battle, and then gets captured by the Big Bad who uses her as bait for the [[DesignatedHero hero]]. ''She then apologizes to the hero'', and after he rescues her happily joins him in his rootless and furtive lifestyle, forever pursued by [[ChurchMilitant church militants]]. Oh, and the hero is Hayden Christensen, making her choice all the more [[{{wallbanger}} inexplicable.]]

* A ''double'' example in ''HowToLoseAGuyInTenDays'', in which ''both'' partners start the relationship under false pretenses. Both halves of the deception are revealed; both parties are hypocritically furious and dump each other, then decide in the end that they're meant to be together after all. Though it could be argued that in that case, they deserve each other.

* Possible subversion with Phoebe/Cole on ''Charmed'', as after Phoebe kills Cole to vanquish The Source of All Evil inside him, he steals powers from the Demonic Wasteland to return to life and get back with Phoebe, only to have her keep saying, "You're evil, you're evil, you're evil." This is a guy who became a DA to put criminals in jail and counter the demonic side he was born with, helped Phoebe escape the Underworld, ultimately had his demonic side vanquished, became The Source only as a side effect of helping slay the previous Source, came back from the dead solely because of his love for Phoebe and kept trying to prove he was a good person, only giving up completely after she and her sisters tried to kill him again. There's a reason many fans referred to Phoebe as Phoe Me after Season Five.

This trope is often matched up with LoveMartyr and/or AllTakeNoGive.

This trope is often matched up with LoveMartyr and/or AllGiveNoTake.

A sister trope to NoAccountingForTaste. See also WhatDoesSheSeeInHim. For when there's a much better suitor involved, see DerailingLoveInterests.

** [[ThatGuyWithTheGlasses This guy is ASS SCUM!]]

Note that despite the title, this is a trope that can be employed by either sex, even if the majority of examples seem to be a female taking back a dodgy male. Inversions are becoming more and more frequent in media, where the guy almost always goes grovelling back his spouse begging to be taken back [[DoubleStandard no matter whose fault it was]].

Note that despite the title, this is a trope that can be employed by either sex, even if the majority of examples seem to be a female taking back a dodgy male.

** Technically, what went on with Duncan was rape anyway. She *passed out* from the liquor, and woke up with no recollection of what had happened. And Duncan *knew* how drunk (and drugged) she was. She was in no condition to consent. If she chooses to see it as "not rape", that's her choice, but legally that's what it was.