Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-6533159-20151015224111/@comment-26018514-20151020190723

MetallicArcher wrote: I'm not saying it's impossible for Taiyang and Summer to have not been married, I'm saying that Ruby not carrying Taiyang's surname =/= Taiyang and Summer not having been married. I would find it more logical if people justified the theory of Summer and Taiyang not being married by saying he might still be legally married to Raven. And that would be assuming marriage in Remnant works like marriage here in the West.

What makes you think the latter is not the justification for that theory? they aren't mutually exclusive. Raven left, but we don't know at this point why or if Taiyang even knew at first that she wasn't dead, it took about a year before they had Ruby, and we still don't know their ages at the time of Summer's death.