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OK, thanks for some better answers than the last time - but I'm not sure you've yet understood exactly what I meant. Maybe I just didn't explain it very well.
It could quite easily happen, and whether or not a new partner has anything to do with their spouse's previous partner is not relevant.
Likewise, neither is the age of either partner.
Yes, I guess it could be a bit Hollywoodish - but it could happen equally anywhere in the world, and at any time in human history - and I suspect it probably has.
What I'm getting at is that for the majority of marriages, it is just 2 people, 1-on-1, until either, one dies, or they divorce. In the case of death at a late age, there is probably little chance of the remaining partner remarrying. But if it happens when either partner is quite young, the remaining partner is in with a very good chance.
In the case of divorce, especially at an early age, again, both partners would be well-placed to remarry.
So if young death or divorce led to remarriage, then one or both partners would have what I can only describe as a 'serial' or 'relay' marriage.
The number of times this could happen, given the right circumstances, would appear to be almost infinite, and could theoretically stretch back over centuries. Does this make more sense now?
By the way, redcrx, your assumption is correct - but the one below it was just pathetic. It is a valid question, and if you don't ask questions in life, you don't get any answers. It was just a thought that kept popping into my head - but I wasn't consumed with it to the exclusion of all else!!