How to get rid of stranger as spouse

I am having trouble with marriages of one lady. She was married only once, but RM has her married twice, and one of them was -1186. I cannot find this guy anywhere so I can get rid of him.

I would unlink 1168 from Marion for now vs delete 1168 might belong to someone else (Family)
see below

I am not able to delete either way. -1186 does not show up at any of the screens where I could delete him as a person or unlink.

At the screen where I see him, I get an error message that says only facts can be deleted. But down at the fact screen, he is not there. Down there there is only one marriage, and it is to the right guy. The marriage to --186 is not at the Fact screen for me to delete.

I also tried to merge the two men, but -1186 is not on the list where I could click him to merge into the primary.

I think there is some corruption and I recall years ago I had to do something to fix this.

Karen

Unlink the children from 1186 and he should go away

It sounds like you are misunderstand something about the jargon and diff screens of RM

and

not sure I follow what list you referring to
Merge panel?
Also unclear they should be merged in first place or if 1186 just unlinked

My 1186 person would be different person but this is how you would do it type “1186” in index panel

Make sure “1186” is highlighted from People List
The view family form panel (could be left or right side depending on your set up).
click on family – it will tell all immediate family members including spouse, children, parents, siblings.

And another way would be to go to “1186” after person is “selected” (highlighted) from People List screen --publish a detailed Individual report.

Again you can unlink from different places – from people list screen you can right click as follows ( I would check what is linked before you accidentally unlink the the wrong thing)