Alice’s Dad’s marriage

Please forgive me for bothering you but I have a few questions about Alice’s Dad. Even though he married Miss Summers, did he still love Marie? I’m still in High school so I don’t fully understand everything about love. I’ve read all the Alice books and thought they were terrific but it seems Alice’s dad didn’t talk about his feelings much but he was a good father to Alice. How does one spouse that you love die and then you marry someone else that you love, arent couples supposed to only love each other forever and always? how does it work? How can you be in love with 2 people?

It would be a very sad world if people couldn’t fall in love again after their spouse dies.  If you truly loved your husband, for example, would you want him to stay sad and lonely if you died first?  Of course Alice’s dad still loved his first wife even though he married Miss Summers.  He loved the memories of all they had done together and the things he liked most about her, and I’m sure he told Miss Summers about her too.  The world is full of people we can love, but everyone is different and  we can fall in love with the differences.  The point is to stay true to the person you marry for as long as you are married.  It does not mean you forget about them after they die.