History PlayingWith / SecretOtherFamily

* '''Exaggerated''':
** Almost everyone in the cast has a secret other family, some having several.
** Sailor Bob has a wife and family in every one of the dozens of ports his ship stops at.

* '''Straight''': Traveling business executive Bob has a wife Alice and a son Dave in New York, while also having a second wife Carol and daughter Esther in California. Neither families know about the other.

* '''Justified''': Bob fell for Carol and had a daughter with her, despite still being with Alice and already having another child, but he seems to love both women too much to leave the other.

** Bob’s second family lives ''with'' the first family but neither Alice nor Carol knowing about Bob’s relation to the other ([[SelectiveObliviousness or refusing to consider the very obvious possibility]]).

** When Alice and Carol find out, they are both angry at Bob with them resolving to leave Bob and taking their respective kids with them.
** Bob’s frequent business trips leads to issues with his children Dave and Esther, [[ParentalNeglect who feel that they aren’t getting the proper attention from him]].

* '''Downplayed''': Bob [[LukeYouAreMyFather recently learned he has a daughter Fiona through a previous relationship]], though hasn’t told his wife yet because he’s still processing having another child.

** ...but they aren’t aware of Bob’s ''[[ReallyGetsAround third]]'' wife Juanita, who lives in Canada with their twins.

* '''Exaggerated''': Almost everyone in the cast has a secret other family, some having several.

* '''Conversed''': ???

* '''Zig Zagged''': Alice thinks that Bob has another wife and child when she accidentally spots all them together. [[RelativeError Turns out she’s actually his cousin Haley and her child Isaac]]. But it turns out that Bob does another wife and child - Carol and their daughter Esther. However, Carol is divorced from Bob and had been for a while by the time he met Alice. Then, another woman claims to be pregnant with Bob’s child.

** ...because he has a girlfriend with a baby on the way.

** ...but they aren’t aware of Bob’s ''third'' wife Juanita, who lives in Canada with their twins.

* '''Downplayed''': Bob recently learned he has a daughter Fiona through a previous relationship, though hasn’t told his wife yet because he’s still processing having another child.

** Alice visits Bob on one of these trips, suspecting him of cheating, only to discover he does actually have a business trip there without any ulterior motives...

** ...because his second wife and child don't live in that state, but in the neighboring one.

** Bob’s second family lives ''with'' the first family but neither Alice nor Carol knowing about Bob’s relation to the other.

* '''Zig Zagged''': Alice thinks that Bob has another wife and child when she accidentally spots all them together. Turns out she’s actually his cousin Haley and her child Isaac. But it turns out that Bob does another wife and child - Carol and their daughter Esther. However, Carol is divorced from Bob and had been for a while by the time he met Alice. Then, another woman claims to be pregnant with Bob’s child.

** Bob is in a polygamous marriage to Alice and Carol with all parties living together under the same roof without any secrets between them.

* '''Defied''': Bob doesn’t want to end up like his father, who had another family with another woman while still married to Bob’s mother, and remains faithful to his family.

** When Alice and Carol find out, they are both angry at Bob with both resolving to leave Bob and take their respective kids with them.
** Bob’s frequent business trips leads to issues with his children Dave and Esther, who feel that they aren’t getting the proper attention from him.
* '''Played For Drama''':
** Bob wants to come clean about the other family to both his wives, but can’t find the courage.

** Bob wants to come clean about the other family to both his wives, but can’t find the courage.

* '''Lampshaded''': “Bob, you don’t have another family I am unaware about when you go on these trips?” “No, dear, that only happens on TV.”

* '''Downplayed''': Bob recently learned he has a daughter Fiona through a previous relationship, though hasn’t told his wife yet because he’s still processing have another child.

* '''Downplayed''': Bob recently learned he has a daughter Fiona through a previous relationship, though hasn’t told his wife yet.

** Carol is married to another man who isn’t Bob, who is the father of her daughter Esther.

* '''Exaggerated''': Almost everyone in the cast has a secret other family.

** Alice is the one with the secret family, marrying a second husband, keeping up a another household, having a second job, and having dozens of children with her second husband without her first husband and other children suspecting a thing.

** Carol is married to another man, who’s the father of her daughter Esther.

** ...except his second wife and child don't live in that state, but in the neighboring one.

** Bob’s second family lives ''with'' the first family but neither Alice nor Carol know about Bob’s relation to the other.

* '''Exploited''': Carol’s brother Greg learns that Bob already has another wife and child and blackmails him.

'''Basic Trope''': A man with a family has another family with the others knowing.
* '''Straight''': Traveling business executive Bob has a wife Alice and a son Dave in New York, while also having a second wife Carol and daughter Esther in California.

* '''Gender-Inverted''': Alice has a secret husband and other child.

* '''Zig Zagged''': ???

* '''Lampshaded''': ???
* '''Invoked''': ???
* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': Bob doesn’t want to end up like his father, who left the family for another woman, and remains faithful to his family.