How do you record multiple marriage between the same two people?

Question

I am working on a situation where a couple were married and divorced once before then marrying and divorcing a second time.  I already have their second marriage recorded on their profiles.  When attempting to add the earlier marriage, WikiTree disallows the update because a marriage between these two people has already been recorded.  How do I resolve this data entry situation?

I have found no marriages to other people in the interim.  In fact, the gap was only three months.  I suppose that I can just have a single marriage, with the start date from the first marriage and the end date from the second marriage.  While it would not be completely accurate, it would not do much harm in this particular instance.

I know of another person who was married to the same person twice, with a different spouse between those two.  In that case, it would be important to list two distinct marriages instead of a single longer one.  This may be a potential for improvement in WikiTree profile management unless I am missing a resolution method that already exists.

Ideas?

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Unfortunately Johnathan there is no way to do this as WikiTree is at present constituted. The only solution is to record what happened in the biography text, as you have already done.

Answer 1

Hmmm...  I searched G2G before asking and did not find a similar discussion.  After posting my question, I see there are half a dozen similar queries over the years (but nothing recent).

The recurring answer is that recording two marriages to the same person is not possible.  The second marriage must be recorded in the biography.  If anything has changed in the last few years, please let me know.  Otherwise, this question has been answered.

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I've also come across a similar situation on a friends ancestry.

This Great Aunt had been married twice to one man (or possibly a brother of her 2nd?).  Then married another.  Then married the 2nd husband again.  A total of 4 marriages with 2 (or 3) of them to the same man.

I have not entered them into WikiTree yet as I do not have enough information on her parents to add her.  (I have a profile for her sibling).