Two for me. First wife died after a long illness after 21 years of marriage. Married now to the second wife for almost nine years. BTW, the second wife was a bridesmaid in my first wedding.
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I love my wife dearly. Have a great and happy marriage. We are too still in love, old, and set in our ways to think about divorce. Should I outlive her, NEVER AGAIN. I'm too independent of a cuss and don't have enough years left to fight to a mutual agreeable truce.
1 for me and if she dies or divorces me (or I divorce her) I'll NEVER get married again! She thinks I'd get married again.....no way in he'll I'd do it also 2nd time and I'm sticking to it! No nat in my ear for me !
Just once. We had 33 years together. But she passed in 2010.
After my wife passed, the most common question I got was "Will you ever marry again?"
I gave that question a lot of thought and finally decided no for several reasons.
First: I just can't imagine myself calling any other woman wife. I loved my wife and still do. I have no desire to replace her.
Second: I've worked hard all my life and what I've managed to accomplish and acquire will go to my sons. I've seen it before where a second wife gets everything a man had at his death and the kids are left out in the cold. Not gonna happen to my sons.
Finally: I'm retired and single. I go where I want, when I want and do what I want. I answer to no one. Its a kind of freedom I've never had before. I like it.
We used to joke when I worked construction, you are not a journeyman until you had a DUI and a divorce.
I still have mine for 52 years, don't know how she does it!!!
It used to be said in my commercial diving days that a good diver had to have at least one ex-wife and at least one DUI. I sure was covered on that! lol