History Series / TheHavesAndTheHaveNots

** Veronica is verbally, psychologically, emotionally, and financially abusive towards Jeffrey in [[RatedMForManly her insistence that he be the man she wants him to be]], especially after he comes out the closet in the Season 1 finale. After Jeffrey reveals his homosexuality, she verbally cuts him down in the cruelest way possible, [[FinancialAbuse freezes his bank account]], fires him from his counseling job, {{blackmail}}s him into dating Melissa, a woman he doesn't have feelings for ([[spoiler:Season 3 reveals that she arranged the whole thing so [[BabyTrap Jeffrey would get Melissa pregnant and be forced to marry her]]]]); [[spoiler:blames him for her and David's deteriorating marriage; and has him brutally beaten by Quincy]].

* IllBoy: [[spoiler:In Season 4, Q is revealed to have lupus and asthma.]]

** Veronica is the [[UpToEleven insanely]] [[{{Jerkass}} bitchy]] head of the Harrington family. [[spoiler:It's best exemplified with TheReveal in "Enough is Enough" that she set Jeffrey up with Melissa so he would get her pregnant and be forced to wed her.]]

[[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters Other characters]] include Katheryn (Renee Lawless), Jim's unhappy and passive-aggressive wife who forms a close bond with Hanna; Wyatt (Aaron O'Connell), Jim and Katheryn's delinquent son who returns home from another unproductive stay in rehab; David Harrington (Peter Parros), Jim's best friend and fellow judge; Veronica (Angela Robinson), David's snobbish attorney wife; Jeffrey (Gavin Houston), David and Veronica's son who works as a rehab counselor and is assigned to monitor Wyatt; Benny (Tyler Lepley), Hanna's son and Candace's younger half-brother; and Celine Gonzalez (Eva Tarmago), the Cryers' long-serving maid.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Why, check out [[Characters/TheHavesAndTheHaveNots this series' character sheet]] and see just how many characters there are on the show.

''Tyler Perry's The Haves and the Have Nots'' (2013-) is a PrimeTimeSoap created by Creator/TylerPerry (who also serves as executive producer, and has written and directed every single episode) which airs on the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN).

* InfantImmortality: [[spoiler:Averted. As of "In Pursuit of Pray," Q has been shot when War and his gang fought Benny and Mitch.]]

* ParentalNeglect: In "In Crisis," Wyatt angrily [[CallingTheOldManOut confronts Jim]] about [[YourCheatingHeart his past affairs with numerous women]] and mentions that, while he was being molested at camp as a child, [[spoiler:he tried calling Jim, only for Jim to say he was busy when, in actuality, he was with Celine]].

* YourCheatingHeart:
** Jim has had affairs with a handful of women, including Celine, Candace, and D.A. Sallison. His philandering is actually what sets the show into motion. Katheryn even refers to his past lovers by the numerical order he slept with them (i.e., she refers to Celine as "Four" and Candace as "Nine").
** In the second season, David is tempted to have an affair with Maggie, his and Jim's campaign manager, after he moves out of his house due to his issues with Veronica over Jeffrey's homosexuality, but he resists. [[spoiler:After Veronica shuts down his attempt to call her, David goes to meet with Maggie and comes dangerously close to sleeping with her, but finds he's unable to go through with it because he still loves his wife. Doesn't stop Veronica from jumping to conclusions and beating the tar out of Maggie.]]
** Benny is the result of his mother having an affair with Tony, a married man, years ago.
** Professor Cannon, Amanda's law professor and rapist, is shown to be married.
** In "Enough is Enough," [[spoiler:Veronica seduces Benny and they have sex in David's car. In "Nine Lives," she again entices Benny into having sex with her a second time. In "A Home for Q," they have sex at Benny's new tow company. [[{{Hypocrite}} All of this, after she had previously mocked her husband for supposedly having an affair]]]].
** In "Making Millions," [[spoiler:David finally sleeps with Maggie]].

* BlackBestFriend:
** David, for Jim. [[spoiler:At least, until after Jim attempts to strangle Veronica for arranging Wyatt's prison rape.]]
** Veronica, for Katheryn. It's later {{averted|Trope}} in Season 3 when Katheryn confides in Hanna that [[FalseFriend Veronica isn't a true friend to her]].
** Hanna becomes one to Katheryn as they bond. In Season 3, Katheryn makes it clear that she considers Hanna her only true friend.
** Candace, for Amanda.
** Jeffrey is this for Wyatt, though [[StraightGay he]] wants to be more than friends.