Just when things were going so well for Ouyang, his wife died within a year and a half of his marriage. When his second wife also died shortly after marriage, he was grief-stricken.
這時的歐陽修怡然自得，唯一美中不足的是才過門的妻子婚後一年半就病逝，而繼室也同樣早逝，令他哀痛不已。