hypothetical: deceased spouses pics

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Should they display the pics of the deceased in the house or would that cause probs?

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Within reason I think it would be okay. Especially if it were for the kids involved.

Just don't put a picture above the bed. The new wife might not take that so well.

Get the dead spouses picture blown up and make the new spouse wear it like a mask.

would you want pictures of your new wifes' dead husband hanging in your house?

I didnt think so

My mother died in 09 an my dad remarried a year ago and there are still pics of my mom at the house and at his office.

Yeah it's a weird situation. A cousin who is the closest thing I have to a sister, and my best friend, had her father who was like another uncle to me die 7 years ago... Her mother met a man and married him a couple years later. The mother annoys the shite out of me, but I really like her new husband and he has been a class act about it. They still talk about him quite often and the dead husband and new husband knew each other beforehand. The new husband took on a great deal of responsibility and honestly treats them just as well as he treats his own son... It's a confusing deal, but they seem to handle it okay. It can get awkward every now and then, but it's important that they don't forget their father.

This is one of those where you take it case by case.

my step father is a widower, and then married my mother. I have never seen a picture of his deceased wife.

friend of mine married a girl who's husband had been killed in a car wreck. She had 4 kids with the deceased guy. She had a 'shrine' to him in the living room of their house. Pics, mementos, etc...

She told my buddy about 2 years in that she didn't love him and was not over her dead spouse. They split up.

Point is...pics in a photo album are one thing. Pics all over the walls or some type of memorial in the house says to me that the grief counseling or acceptance of the death never completed and it is a symbol that problems possibly are on the horizon due to that.

If there are family pictures with the deceased in them then the best solution is to give the pictures to the kids.