This thought started off a little light hearted but I am actually genuinely a little curious.
My parents' next door neighbour got married recently. My parents still live in the house we grew up in and so we know the neighbours well enough to stop and say hi and ask how they are if we do see them out and about. The neighbours are an elderly couple and one of their adult sons lives with them. Their other children all moved out decades ago and are married with their own families now. The son who lives with them, I would say he was in his early 50s (when we were growing up I know he was a little older than my uncle who had his 50th birthday last year). Let's call him Bob.
Anyway, growing up, and more recently we'd hear Bob have some pretty acrimonious fights with his mum. His mum is agoraphobic and almost never goes out the front door. She's friendly enough but any conversations with her happen at the fence of the back garden. Anyway... My parents recently got a wedding invitation for Bob's wedding. We all thought that's so lovely as he's been so very single and well just not getting on with his mum for such a long time. Bob began doing lots of refurbishments to the house and said it was in preparation for his wife moving in.
My parents couldn't make the wedding but my dad had a card and gift to give him. Bob's mum told my dad Bob was on honeymoon and so my dad waited for him to get back to give the gift. Bob did come back from honeymoon and my dad gave him his gift. My dad mentioned to me he didn't see his wife and then in passing the other day my dad was saying how he's never seen Bob's wife.
My parents have a Ring doorbell which me and my siblings access for mostly my elderly dad's safety and communicating with their delivery couriers. And it does cover Bob's front gate (semi detached property). And there's been no trace of anyone moving in... They got married almost two months ago.
And so, where is she?