How do you think your spouse will react:
1- Commit suicide
2- Will live but an empty life, will never marry again
3- Greive for sometime and them move on with life
4- Worry about how to feed the family
5- Good riddance
I cant predict how, it would depend on many factors. If i put myself in her shoes and if something happened to her, would it mean that I would never like anyone again, would it mean that I live a life alone? I dunno..I doubt that I will find someone like a year later but I suppose eventually I would, also depends on ow old I am. If I am very old then probably not, if in 40s and even 50s, the possibility can be there.
She used to say she will not be able to live without me, but I think those are words, with respinsibilities of kids, if I was gto be hit by a beer truck tomorrow, i doubt she will kill herself. She is stronger and more rational than that.
I would want her to do what makes her happy and allows her to live a happy life. if that is alone, thats okay, if that is with someone else that is okay. She would not have to do it for financial security because that aspect is taken care of.