Foot-Dragging Divorcee/Playing With

• Basic Trope: One half of a couple wants a divorce; the other is reluctant to go through with it.
• Played Straight: Alice wants a divorce from Bob, but Bob procrastinates about signing the papers.
• Exaggerated: Bob flat out refuses to sign the papers.
• Justified:
  • Bob still has feelings for Alice, and/or wants to try and see if they can go through marriage counseling and "make it work."
  • Bob doesn't believe in divorce.
• Inverted:
  • Alice wants Bob to propose marriage to her, but Bob is (for whatever reason(s)) dragging his feet about it.
  • Alternatively, Alice plops divorce papers on Bob's desk, and Bob signs them right away.
• Subverted:
  • The deadline is fast approaching, and though the papers are unsigned, it's because Bob has been busy and forgot about them.
  • Or, Bob confronts Alice, and they agree that instead of divorcing, they will try couples' counseling first.
  • Or, Bob signs the papers right away.
• Double Subverted: It turns out Bob still has feelings for Alice, and has been using "being swamped with work" as an excuse for avoiding the issue.
• Deconstructed: See "Double Subverted".
• Reconstructed: Alice and Bob talk about their issues, and either reconsider the divorce (and work through their problems), or agree that it's better to just end it.
• Parodied: "No, you sign the papers first!"
• Lampshaded: "I need him to sign those Goddamned, fucking papers! Otherwise, Charles and I can't get married!"
• Averted: Alice and Bob are Happily Married, or at least not getting a divorce.
• Enforced: "We need to segue into a drawn-out romance arc, with an Alice-Bob-Charles Love Triangle."
• Invoked: Alice gets involved with Charles, but she wants to get her Lazy Husband Bob out of the way.
• Defied:
  • Bob signs the papers right away, because he wants the divorce as badly as Alice does.
  • Alice and Bob agree to try counseling before getting a divorce.
• Discussed: "Bob's not going to sign those divorce papers."
• Conversed: "Ever notice how on TV, the guys are slow to get into a marriage, and even slower to get out of one, than the girls are? What's up with that?"
• Played For Laughs: See "Parodied"
• Played For Drama: Almost always is.