There is no discernible downgrade as far as I can tell, and he has less time to wait to be a widower with the 'new' wife. But now he has an ex who is his mother in law, and a wife who is his ex mother in law. If that's not like being in Dante's seventh ring of hell, I don't know what is.
wait - I know it's early, but I can't figure how his ex is his mother in law...