“this room is like the heart of the house. no, not a heart, a stomach. it was your dance studio, theo. it was my toy-room, it was a reading room for mom, the game room for steve, a family room for shirley, a treehouse… but it was always, the red room.“
okay so unless you’ve watched the Netflix series u wouldn’t understand but Mort is an interdimensional being who has lived a substantial amount of time. assuming his wives weren’t clones of himself, they probs just died of old age or smth.