line of the vows is driving me nuts as it is. His wife is no longer. Likely for health insurance,in rememberence of whom she was and religious reasons are the reasons they are still married. Is she even capable of being recognised for divorce now? Would a guardian have to represent her?

I'm sure he loves his wife to this day; too bad he can no longer find her.

Pity me that the heart is slow to learn What the swift mind beholds at every turn. Edna St. Vincent Millay