History Main / SerialSpouse

* Larry King was married eight times, to seven different women. All of his marriages have ended in divorce, except for the last, where they filed for divorce, but King died before it could be finalized.

* German chancellor Gerhard Schröder was elected in 1998 just one year after entering his fourth marriage with a much younger woman, earning nicknames as the "Lord of the Rings" and "Audi-Kanzler" (German car manufacturer Audi has four rings as their logo).

* English comedian Jim Davidson has been married five times. His turbulent marital life has formed much of his stand-up. He estimated that his four divorces cost him around £60 million. He has been with his current wife since 2009 and has joked that the reason he's still married to her is that he can't afford another divorce.

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* Tarquin in ''WebComic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' has been married nine times. He killed most of his wives, although he turns out to be telling the truth about the last one dying in "mysterious circumstances." [[spoiler:She was inadvertently snuffed out by Vaarsuvius.]]

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There are numerous reasons for a character's marriages to repeatedly fail. Sometimes a [[FriendVersusLover needy best friend]] drives a wedge between them and anyone new. Sometimes the character is still too devoted to a lost loved one. Maybe they're even [[ReplacementGoldfish trying to replace]] a lost love, and the divorces result because the new spouse is simply not the old one. [[ThereAreNoTherapists Maybe they have an untreated mental illness, or unaddressed personal problems]], and their spouses just can't deal with them. Perhaps they are marrying [[GoldDigger with the expectation of getting divorced and receiving alimony]]. Maybe they have [[CommitmentIssues issues concerning commitment]] and fidelity. Maybe they are attracted to {{Broken Bird}}s and the TroubledButCute, and erroneously think they can [[ICanChangeMyBeloved "fix" that person...only to find that a) they can't and b) the other person resents being expected to change or being treated like a project instead of a person.]] Usually, it's because they're simply MarriedToTheJob.

This trope is often part of a character's DarkAndTroubledPast, but it can also be PlayedForLaughs. In both comedies and dramas, the character is often part of a DysfunctionJunction. As it is exceedingly common on crime dramas, this is one element of the StandardCopBackstory.

'''Mrs. White:''' Yes, just the five. Husbands should be like Kleenex: soft, strong and disposable.

* In ''Literature/TheCanterburyTales'' the Wife of Bath has been married five times. She started at age 12, and her first three husbands were elderly men, to whom she claims she was quite happily wedded to.

** The main character also fits. Besides the hypothetical grandparent of Susan, they've married Cameca the Aztec woman, River Song, Elizabeth I and Marilyn Monroe over the course of the series.
** River Song marries the Doctor in "The Wedding of River Song" but in "The Husbands of River Song", we learn she also married Hydroflax, Ramone and Stephen Fry. She also had at least two wives (one of whom is Cleopatra).

** His first divorce occurred shortly before the start of the series from Carol, [[ClosetKey who realized she was gay and left him for a woman]]. However, Carol soon realized she was pregnant and went on share joint custody of Ross's son Ben while raising him with her new wife Susan. Ross's second marriage is to Emily, who he marries after knowing for just a few months... [[WrongNameOutburst and then says Rachel's name at the alter]]. Emily is furious but eventually agrees to take him back, but they soon divorce after Ross makes her admit she doesn't trust him. Ross's last marriage is to Rachel after they get drunk and marry in Las Vegas. They try for an annulment, but for complicated reasons have to get a divorce instead.

** Margaery as well, with the benefit that she manages to marry a king each time: First Renly Baratheon (to whom she is TheBeard; he prefers her brother and hence never consummated their union), then Joffrey Baratheon who is poisoned on his wedding reception, and finally Joffrey's younger brother Tommen Baratheon.

** Abby was married to Jeff Cunningham (who is Olivia and Brian's father), then to Gary, then to Charles Scott and then to Greg. Her very brief marriage to Charles was annulled while the other three ended in divorce.
** Greg was married to Jane, then to Laura, then to Abby and then to Anne. He claimed that he married Jane out of ignorance, Laura for love and Abby for business reasons. His later marriage to Anne was one of convenience. Laura died while the other three marriages all ended in divorce. Greg was also engaged to Paige in Season 12 (between his marriages to Abby and Paige's mother Anne) but they never got married.

* On ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'', Earl has been married three times. The first time was an AccidentalMarriage to Joy until she left him (while he was hospitalized, no less!) for Darnell. The second time was to [[ShotgunWedding a friend's elderly mother]] until she wanted sex and he didn't want to give it to her. The third time was to a friend's ex-girlfriend who wanted to follow in his footsteps... then morphed into a {{Yandere}} when he was more focused on the list than on her, before she finally left him to join an Amish-like settlement, doing him a final favor by leaving him all the money she got in ''her'' court settlement. Earl states that despite all their problems, Joy was his favorite wife.

* Millionairess Claire Zachanassian in Friedrich Dürrenmatt's play ''Theatre/TheVisit''. Over the course the play, she divorces her seventh husband, marries and divorces the eighth, and prepares to marry the ninth.

** Marge's sister Selma, who over the years has been married to Sideshow Bob, Lionel Hutz, Troy [=McClure=], Disco Stu, Grandpa Simpson and Fat Tony[[note]][[spoiler:Well, she thought she married him, but it was actually a ceremony to become his mistress]][[/note]]. She's [[HollywoodDateless usually unable to find a man]], so when she ''does'' find one, she leaps right in.

* English comedian Jim Davidson has been married five times. His turbulent maritial life has formed much of his stand-up. He estimated that his four divorces cost him around £60 million. He has been with his current wife since 2009 and has joked that the reason he's still married to her is that he can't afford another divorce.

* ''Series/ICarly2021'': Freddie mentions that he's been gone through two divorces in the time since the [[Series/{{iCarly}} original series]].

-->'''[[http://dlisted.com/2014/07/08/pamela-andersons-latest-marriage-lasted-longer-than-you-thought-it-would-last/ Michael K.]]''': You know how some hos say that break-up sex is the best kind of sex? Maybe Pamela Anderson is way past that and she can only bust a nut if she’s freshly divorced from the dude.

* Norman Mailer was married six times (though his marriage to Carol Stevens, which lasted for one day, was only to legitimise the child they had together). He famously ended up stabbing his second wife, Adele Morales, albeit non-fatally; he was shipped off to Bellevue to cool out. "I really was in danger of being declared insane because I'm a Jew, and the doctors were all Jewish, [[NiceJewishBoy and Jews just don't do this sort of thing]] unless they are really crazy." But he was let out.

* Al Calavicci of ''Series/QuantumLeap'' had five wives, three of which are confirmed to have left him in a divorce (or divorce-like circumstances), and one is implied to. Only the first one really "worked": She only left him because she [[YouHaveWaitedLongEnough waited long enough]] after he was declared dead. [[spoiler: The series finale gave Sam a chance to change all that by telling her Al was still alive and would come back to her. The epilogue explains that as a result they stayed together and had BabiesEverAfter instead]]

* ''Series/{{iCarly}}'': Freddie in the 2021 revival mentions that he's been gone through two divorces in the time since the original series.

** Evelyn Harper has been married five times. Her first husband (Charlie and Alan's father) died, her second husband left her for a younger woman (then left said younger woman for an even ''younger'' woman), not much is said about her third and fourth husbands, but one was implied to have been a gay man using Evelyn as TheBeard. Her fifth husband died at their wedding and was actually a con artist trying to take her money.

* In the film version of ''Film/JurassicPark'', Ian Malcolm comments at one point that he's always looking for the next ex-Mrs. Malcolm. It's implied that all of his marriages ended in divorce.
* The movie ''Film/TheMarryingMan'' centered on a couple who married each other and then divorced multiple times over the span of decades. By the end of the movie, they are about to get married for the fourth time.
* In ''Film/TheHeartbreakKid2007'', Creator/BenStiller character Eddie rushes into marriage with Lila. During the honeymoon, he realizes how mismatched they are and meets another woman Miranda. After many mishaps, both women leave him. Years later, he is settled in Mexico, and Miranda visits him. In the final scene, he makes plans to go on a date with her and after she leaves, it is revealed that he is married to a third woman, and possibly is going to divorce her to be with the One.
* Ma Flodder from the ''Film/{{Flodder}}'' movies has been married 5 times but is currently single again.
* Osgood Fielding from ''Film/SomeLikeItHot'' has been married seven or eight times (his mother is keeping score) and plans to marry again, [[spoiler:even after he finds out that his fiancée is a man in drag]].
* Hortense Ditherwell (Alice Brady) in ''Film/TheGayDivorcee'' has been married three times and is looking for a fourth.
--> '''Hortense:''' Let's see, I didn't marry in 1929 or '30. That was the year of the crash, and men didn't know whether they had money or not.
* The princess in ''Film/ThePalmBeachStory'' has possibly been married six times; she's had three divorces and two annulments, and she says she's "not quite through with the Prince" (although she is certainly looking for candidates to replace him).

* In the 1960 ''Film/OceansEleven'' Jimmy's mother is on her fifth or sixth. When she nags him about missing her wedding, he asks if he has ever missed one of her weddings; "Yes", she replies tartly, "my first." [[/folder]]

* In ''Literature/TheMarkOfTheLion'' trilogy, [[spoiler: Julia Valerian]] goes through three husbands, one fiancé and multiple lovers. Two of the husbands die, but relations with the fiancé and one of the husbands are broken off by divorce.
* In ''Literature/TheDevilWearsPrada'', Miranda is preparing to marry her ninth husband.

* In ''Literature/TheGoblinEmperor'', Maia's father, the previous emperor, divorced his first wife for barrenness, then went through a number of wives who all died before their thirtieth birthday, [[BlackWidow apparently]] for natural causes. His banishing the Empress Chenelo, Maia's mother, to a remote country estate can be considered the equivalent of divorce, as he never saw her again. Upon his death at the start of the novel, he leaves a widow who is about as old as his youngest son, Maia.
* Nanny Ogg of the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novels has been married three times "...and that's only the official score."

* ''Literature/TheSevenHusbandsOfEvelynHugo'': See the title? Granted, one of them was annulled (it was a Vegas marriage that barely lasted the weekend), but it still counts. [[spoiler:Ironically, the one Evelyn loved most was her "wife", Celia St. James, who she wasn't even officially married to]].

* In ''Literature/TheCanterburyTales'' the Wife of Bath has been married five times. She started at age 12, and her first three husbands were elderly men, to whom she claims she was quite happily wedded to.

* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
** Sansa is put in an ArrangedMarriage four times. With Joffrey in Season 1 (although the wedding itself never happens), then with Tyrion in Season 3, then with Robin (doesn't pass the engagement part) ''then'' with Ramsay in Season 5.
** Margaery as well, with the benefit that she manages to marry a king each time: First Renly Baratheon (to whom she is TheBeard; he prefers her brother and hence never consummated their union), then Joffrey Baratheon who is poisoned on his wedding reception, and finally Joffrey's younger brother Tommen Baratheon.
** We hear about four marriages of Salladhor's, and those are only the ones whose weddings Davos was able to attend!
* Wilson on ''Series/{{House}}'' had been divorced twice at the start of the show. He went through his third divorce in season two.
* Gibbs on ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' has three ex-wives, [[spoiler:though he has actually been married four times.]]
* On ''Series/CriminalMinds'', Rossi has been divorced three times.

* On ''Series/LawAndOrder'', Jack [=McCoy=] has been divorced twice, as has Lennie Briscoe, and naturally, his {{Expy}}, [[Series/LawAndOrderUK Ronnie Brooks]].
** Briscoe's associate John Munch from ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' has been divorced no less than four times.
** Also on ''SVU'', Detective Carisi mentions that one of his sisters has been engaged (though not married) about ten times.
* Guinan on ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' has been married ''23'' times. It's not clear if all these marriages ended in divorce, or if she outlived some or most of her husbands.
** This trope is standard practice for Trill symbiotes, as their marriages are considered to end automatically if they transfer to a new body. Dax on ''Deep Space Nine'' had been married so many times in various former host-bodies that when Worf insisted on a traditional Klingon wedding, she agreed to everything he wanted, simply because she was so completely bored with doing the Trill traditions every time (and because it meant so much to him).
* Ross on ''Series/{{Friends}}'' had three ex-wives by the end of the series, and was often mocked for it (sometimes by himself).
-->'''Ross:''' I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say No Divorces in '99!\\
'''Rachel:''' But your divorce isn't even final yet.\\
'''Ross:''' Just The One Divorce in '99!
** His first divorce occurred shortly before the start of the series from Carol, [[ClosetKey who realized she was gay and left him for a woman]]. However, Carol soon realized she was pregnant and went on share joint custody of Ross's son Ben while raising him with her new wife Susan. Ross's second marriage is to Emily, who he marries after knowing for just a few months... [[WrongNameOutburst and then says Rachel's name at the alter]]. Emily is furious but eventually agrees to take him back, but they soon divorce after Ross makes her admit she doesn't trust him. Ross's last marriage is to Rachel after they get drunk and marry in Las Vegas. They try for an annulment, but for complicated reasons have to get a divorce instead.
* John Munch from ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet'' and ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' had two ex-wives in his past, married a bartender in Homicide's last season, and had divorced her by the final movie. There was a reason he always got teamed with Briscoe during crossovers.
** By SVU, he's been married (and divorced) four times and states that he still believes in true love, but that it always eludes him.
* Ron Swanson on ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'' has two ex-wives named Tammy, which is also his mother's name. He marries a 3rd woman during the course of the series, and it works out this time.

* Al Calavicci of ''Series/QuantumLeap'' had five wives, three of which are confirmed to have left him in a divorce (or divorce-like circumstances), and one is implied to. Only the first one really "worked": She only left him because she [[YouHaveWaitedLongEnough waited long enough]] after he was declared dead. [[spoiler: The series finale gave Sam a chance to change all that by telling her Al was still alive and would come back to her. The epilogue explains that as a result they stayed together and had BabiesEverAfter instead]]
* On ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'', Earl has been married three times. The first time was an AccidentalMarriage to Joy until she left him (while he was hospitalized, no less!) for Darnell. The second time was to [[ShotgunWedding a friend's elderly mother]] until she wanted sex and he didn't want to give it to her. The third time was to a friend's ex-girlfriend who wanted to follow in his footsteps... then morphed into a {{Yandere}} when he was more focused on the list than on her, before she finally left him to join an Amish-like settlement, doing him a final favor by leaving him all the money she got in ''her'' court settlement. Earl states that despite all their problems, Joy was his favorite wife.
** In the same series, one guy on the list is a man who's been married a few times in his life, and Earl slept with at least two of his wives, on multiple occasions.

* [[{{Fiction 500}} Multi-millionaire]] CorruptCorporateExecutive Wilfred Tipton of the ''[[Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody Suite Life]]'' franchise has been married and divorced anywhere between eight and fifteen times (London can never seem to remember just how many).
* On ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'', JD mentions that after his parents got divorced, his mother "started marrying everyone who rang the doorbell."
* Mickey from ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'', and he seems to take pride in it. When meeting a woman who is distraught over the possibility of her ''second'' marriage ending, he laughs and calls her a "lightweight" before walking out with his newest wife-to-be.
* On ''Series/TheMunsters'' Grandpa has been married [[ExaggeratedTrope 166 times]]. However, it's not known if ''all'' the marriages ended in divorce.
* On ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'', [[RaisedByGrandparents Grams]] was married four times and engaged at least twice more; she was quite happy with the girls' grandfather, who was killed by a demon, but the next five husbands left her with a [[DoesNotLikeMen decidedly poor outlook on men]].
** For that matter, [[PsychicPowers Phoebe]] gets married three times over the course of the series: to [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor Cole]], then to [[TemporaryLoveInterest Dex]], and finally to [[LoveFreak Coop]]. To be fair, that second one happened when they were under a spell.
* On ''Series/Numb3rs'' Lt. Walker mentions in "Robin Hood" to having been married and divorced three times.
* Lt. Provenza of ''Series/TheCloser'' and ''Series/MajorCrimes'' was married four times (twice to the same woman). He nearly got married for the fifth time but they broke up.
* John Sheridan of ''Series/{{Babylon5}}'' is far from the worst example of this trope, but he has been married enough times to cause Garibaldi to exclaim, "How many wives does he have?" [[spoiler: Just three.]]
* ''Series/{{NTSFSDSUV}}'': Agent Trent Hauser mentions that he's been married six times. His boss Kove has been married ''eleven'' times, including with Trent.
* ''Series/AllMyChildren'''s Erica Kane was married seven times to six different men. One of whom was Adam Chandler, who was himself married '''''10''''' times.
* ''Series/OneLifeToLive'''s Asa Buchanan was married 14 times to 10 different women.
* ''Series/KnotsLanding'':
** Valene has been married five times, the most of anyone in the ''Series/{{Dallas}}'' / ''Knots Landing'' universe: she married and divorced Gary twice, then she married Ben Gibson and was (seemingly) widowed but she got a divorce instead of having him declared legally dead, then she married Danny Waleska (who died while they were in the process of getting a divorce) and then she married Gary for the third time. When she thought that she was Verna Ellers after losing her memory, she almost married Parker Winslow in the Season Six episode "Fly Away Home" but Gary managed to convince her of her true identity and that Parker was using her after he discovered that she was a famous author.
** Gary married and divorced Abby between his second and third marriages to Valene. He was also engaged to Jill in Season Eight but they never got married.
** Abby was married to Jeff Cunningham (who is Olivia and Brian's father), then to Gary, then to Charles Scott and then to Greg. Her very brief marriage to Charles was annulled while the other three ended in divorce.
** Greg was married to Jane, then to Laura, then to Abby and then to Anne. He claimed that he married Jane out of ignorance, Laura for love and Abby for business reasons. His later marriage to Anne was one of convenience. Laura died while the other three marriages all ended in divorce. Greg was also engaged to Paige in Season Twelve (between his marriages to Abby and Paige's mother Anne) but they never got married.
* ''Series/TwoAndAHalfMen'':
** Evelyn Harper has been married five times. Her first husband (Charlie and Alan's father) died, her second husband left her for a younger woman (then left said younger woman for an even ''younger'' woman), not much is said about her third and fourth husbands, but one was implied to have been a gay man using Evelyn as TheBeard. Her fifth husband died at their wedding and was actually a con artist trying to take her money.
** Alan barely qualifies, having been married and divorced twice: first to Judith, then to Kandi.

* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'': Sheldon's older brother George Cooper Jr. has two ex-wives.
* ''Series/StElsewhere'': Helen Rosenthal has been married four times, [[MatzoFever each time to a Jewish man]]. All four marriages end in divorce.

* ''Series/EerieIndiana'': In "The Dead Letter", Mary B. Carter tells the ghost of her one true love Tripp [=McConnell=] that she was married six times but none of them worked out as they weren't him.
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E137Number12LooksJustLikeYou Number 12 Looks Just Like You]]", marriages are extremely short-lived in Marilyn Cuberle's society. Her mother Lana has had ten husbands, nine of them in the last five years, while Val's mother has had eleven.

* ''Radio/CabinPressure'' - Douglas is on his third marriage by the time the series starts, and that ends after she has an affair with her Tai Chi teacher. Herc Shipwright has four ex-wives by the time he shows up and starts going out with Carolyn.

* Joanne from ''[[Theatre/CompanySondheim Company]]'' has been married "three or four times".

* In ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', Lois' sister, Carol, has been divorced nine times. She's currently married to Mayor Adam West.
* On ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'', Arnold has been left some money by a lounge singer that he had helped to rediscover his talents in an earlier episode. At the will-reading, are several different blond women that he had been married to at one point or another.
* On ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}},'' Jane's oldest brother Wind is on his third or fourth wife by the time he first shows up. In this case, it seems to be because he's a neurotic mess who jumps into relationships with less-than-stellar women (he insists Wife #3 "isn't like the other ones").
-->'''Relative:''' And [how's] your brother Wind?\\
'''Jane:''' He's thinking about getting remarried if he can just figure out whether his divorces were legal.
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'': Terry's friend Jared mentions that his mother "goes through husbands like popcorn".
* Even earlier than that in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries''episode "Chemistry" Veronica Vreeland mentions that her new husband Michael was her fourth. Since [[spoiler:Michael was a plant creature created by Poison Ivy]], that marriage also ended. She has a daughter named Bunny in the prologue of ''Batman Beyond'' pilot "Rebirth", indicating that she got married again in the future. (Then again, Bunny has her mother's maiden name as her surname, so unless Veronica's husband [[TheMaidenNameDebate took her last name]], it's likely that she was a single mother).

* In ''Literature/TheCanterburyTales'' the Wife of Bath has been married five times. She started at age 12, and her first three husbands were elderly men, to whom she claims she was quite happily wedded to. [[/folder]]

* Creator/JamesCameron has been married to five different women, though it seems the fifth time was the charm, as he and Suzy Amis have been together since 2000.

** Her older sister Magda was married six times, and her younger sister Eva was married five times. Their mother was married thrice. Guess it's InTheBlood?

* Ron Swanson on ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'' has two ex-wives named Tammy, which is also his mother's name.

* On ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'', Earl has been married three times. The first time was an AccidentalMarriage to Joy until she left him (while he was hospitalized, no less!) for Darnell. The second time was to [[ShotgunWedding a friend's elderly mother]] until she wanted sex and he didn't want to give it to her. The third time was to a friend's ex-girlfriend who wanted to follow in his footsteps...then morphed into a {{Yandere}} when he was more focused on the list than on her, before she finally left him to join an Amish-like settlement, doing him a final favor by leaving him all the money she got in ''her'' court settlement. Earl states that despite all their problems, Joy was his favorite wife.

'''Herc:''' Between us, yes - I think. There isn't any overlap, is there, Douglas?\\

* Emperor UsefulNotes/{{Claudius}} of Rome had two failed betrothals and four marriages, the final one ending in his death.
** His first betrothal was to a distant cousin, which was broken because her family came into conflict with UsefulNotes/{{Augustus}}, his great-uncle. The second one ended with his fiance [[WidowedAtTheWedding dying on their wedding day]].
** Later on, he divorced his first wife Plautia due to suspecting her of adultery and of murdering her sister-in-law. He divorced his second wife Aelia for political reasons and trivial offenses (allegedly). His third wife, Valeria, was a [[GoldDigger gold-digging]] nymphomaniac who cheated on him regularly, [[AnythingThatMoves even going so far as to compete with prostitutes to see who could obtain more partners]], and married her lover Gaius Silius before being executed along with him. After this, Claudius told the Praetorian Guard that if he ever married again they had his permission to kill him. Regardless, he married his fourth and final wife (and niece) Agrippina months later, who manipulated him into adopting her son UsefulNotes/{{Nero}} before [[BlackWidow poisoning him so Nero could take the throne.]]

* UsefulNotes/HenryVIII of England is probably the...er, king of this trope. He created an entire church (with him as the boss) in order to get his marriage annulled. He married six times in total; two of his marriages were annulled, three ended in the wife's death (twice with [[OffWithHisHead a bit of help from Henry]]), and the last ended with Henry's death.

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* Larry King was married eight times, to seven different women. All have ended in divorce.

* Larry King was married eight times, to seven different women. All but the last marriage (his longest one yet) have ended in divorce.

** His first divorce occurred shortly before the start of the series from Carol, [[ClosetKey who realized she was gay and left him for a woman]]. However, Carol soon realized she was pregnant and went on share joint custody of Ross's son Ben while raising him with her new wife Susan. Ross's second marriage is to Emily, who he marries after knowing for just months... [[WrongNameOutburst and then says Rachel's name at the alter]]. Emily is furious but eventually agrees to take him back, but they soon divorce after Ross makes her admit she doesn't trust him. Ross's last marriage is to Rachel after they get drunk and marry in Las Vegas. They try for an annulment, but for complicated reasons have to get a divorce instead.

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** His first divorce occurred shortly before the start of the series from Carol, [[ClosetKey who realized she was gay and left him for a woman]]. However, Carol soon realized she was pregnant and went on share joint custody of Ross's son Ben while raising him with her new wife Susan. Ross's second marriage is to Emily, who he marries after knowing for just months... [[WrongNameMistake and then says Rachel's name at the alter]]. Emily is furious but eventually agrees to take him back, but they soon divorce after Ross makes her admit she doesn't trust him. Ross's last marriage is to Rachel after they get drunk and marry in Las Vegas. They try for an annulment, but for complicated reasons have to get a divorce instead.

-->'''Ross:''' I'm gonna go out on a limb here, but No Divorces in '99!\\
'''Monica:''' Aren't you still married to Emily?\\