[Fugo shakes his head and waves one hand. It's cool, Feferi.]
It's fine. It sounds strange when it's all laid out like that. A marriage is... you consider it a contract, of sorts. A promise of faithfulness between two parties and the merger of their households. It can be dissolved in a divorce, but in the part of the world I'm from it's very frowned upon.
A woman whose husband has died is called a "widow" and a man whose wife has died is a "widower". And it... depends. There's an expected period of mourning no matter how old you are, but older people often don't remarry if their partner dies.
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It's fine. It sounds strange when it's all laid out like that. A marriage is... you consider it a contract, of sorts. A promise of faithfulness between two parties and the merger of their households. It can be dissolved in a divorce, but in the part of the world I'm from it's very frowned upon.
A woman whose husband has died is called a "widow" and a man whose wife has died is a "widower". And it... depends. There's an expected period of mourning no matter how old you are, but older people often don't remarry if their partner dies.