Serial or relay marriages??

[AndiFlatland]

Not quite sure how to phrase this one, so I hope this makes sense.

A couple get married. Eventually, one of the partners dies, leaving the other free to re-marry.

After some time, the new partner divorces the first partner, and so the process continues again, with the first bereaved partner marrying again..

Then the original partner dies, leaving the second spouse free to re-marry. And so on - make up your own scenarios!

This can obviously carry on pretty much indefinitely, I would imagine, with either one partner dying, or the couple divorcing, and one - or both - of the partners re-marrying.

Are there any figures on this? Is there any record of an ongoing marriage where serial deaths and divorces have led to there being a marriage which has, in one form or another, kept going for, say, a couple of centuries, or even longer?

[QueenOfAmber]

I think you are being a bit paranoid! Has this happened to you? It is an extremely rare form of marriage etc. You should try to overcome your fears of this happening! Only something like 0.0012% of this happens to people. It is mainly in the East because many people do not live long enough to see the end of their marriage. This, I think, is what you are thinking of. Hope this helps.

[AndiFlatland]

Queen of Amber, what on earth are you talking about???

You obviously haven't read or understood the question properly.

Can I have a sensible answer from somebody, please?

If there was a negative rating for responses, you would get it. Stop being silly and wasting my time.

[redcrx]

isnt that a bit like Trigger (of only fools and horses) saying he'd had the same broom for years and years and had only replced the head so many times and the handle a few more?

there would all be seperate marriages so it isnt "a marriage which has, in one form or another, kept going for, say, a couple of centuries, or even longer"

[Ethel]

You can be fairly confident that both the original parties to wedding number 1 would be dead after 100 years

[stonekicker]

why on earth are you spending time thinking about something so pointless? get out there and do something constructive!!! x (in the best possible taste - of course...)