fake married/dating aus
- we’re both attending a wedding where our exes will be present and neither of us wants to show up alone, so we agree to pretend we’re together but our chemistry is significantly more convincing than expected
- my family keeps trying to set me up with people every holiday and i panic and claim i’m already dating someone but now i need you to accompany me to a family gathering and survive three days of interrogation
- i need a date for a prestigious work event because everyone keeps assuming i’m antisocial and you need access to the event for completely unrelated reasons
- everyone at university/work already thinks we’re dating because we spend all our time together and eventually we get tired of correcting them and decide to just lean into it
- my ex won’t stop contacting me and i make the terrible decision to pretend you’re my new partner but you commit to the bit so hard that even i start believing it
- i accidentally tell my incredibly traditional grandmother that i’ve been married for two years because i didn’t want to explain my actual life situation and now she’s coming to visit and you’re the only person willing to help
- we’re trying to rent a ridiculously affordable apartment in a city with impossible housing prices and the landlord assumes we’re married and neither of us corrects him and then he invites us to a tenants’ barbecue
- we’re spies/detectives/witnesses/criminals/royalty/etc. and the cover identity requires us to pose as a married couple living together and suddenly we’re arguing about whose turn it is to do fictional household chores
- i wake up after a chaotic night in Vegas and discover we’re legally married and we agree to get an annulment immediately but a series of increasingly ridiculous circumstances keeps delaying it
- we’re attending a destination wedding where every guest is part of a couple and the only spare room available has been assigned to “the married couple” us
