According to the Catholic church everyone has a Guardian Angel,but what happens when you get married?
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I don't believe there are references to this as it is essentially a nonsequiter in the church. Two become one as in the decisions you make now affect both, as if you were one entity. You don't literally morph into a single body and become one being.
So if you hold to the Catholic belief that a guardian angel is an angel (a created, non-human, non-corporeal being) that has been assigned to guard a particular person, especially with respect to helping that person avoid spiritual dangers and achieve salvation, then that angel may also help the person avoid physical dangers, particularly if this will help the person achieve salvation. This implys that you as a physical being that is still a separate physical being would still benefit from your own "personal" guardian angel.
http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/336.htm
"From its beginning until death, human life is surrounded by their watchful care and intercession. Beside each believer stands an angel as protector and shepherd leading him to life. Already here on earth the Christian life shares by faith in the blessed company of angels and men united in God [CCC 336]."
If one person "lost" their guardian angel then what happens if you get divorced? You still are one flesh if it wasn't a biblical reason for divorce, so does one person get the one Angel in the divorce and the other loses theirs?
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Your question is answered in the text of its asking.
According to the Catholic church everyone has a Guardian Angel.
That is correct. (CCC 334-336)
Two persons, one marriage
What happens when you get married?
Per the scripture you quoted "two become one flesh." That uniting during the sacrament of marriage is something that happens on earth, between two persons, unified beings that are both spiritual and corporeal.1 Angels are beings of spirit. There is no reason to presume that they are affected by that, nor that their guardian role does not remain to be fulfilled.
When the Bible says married couples “become one flesh,” that is a way of saying that (1) there is a level of carnal intimacy that is only possible in a marriage, and (2) therefore, the marriage union is indissoluble. (Catholic PoV)2. It does not mean that the man and woman cease to be two distinct persons. Each person has their guardian angel.
Angels as beings of spirit, per my reply to your recent question here (CCC 329)
'Angel' is the name of their office, not of their nature. If you seek the name of their nature, it is 'spirit'; if you seek the name of their office, it is 'angel': from what they are, 'spirit', from what they do, 'angel.'"
According to Catholic belief (and indeed, a lot of Christian belief) the flesh and the spirit are two domains that overlap (or are as above, unified) during a person's life here on earth. The flesh in time ends, at death, whereas the spirit is eternal.
1,2 Assistance in how to phrase this from @AthanasiusOfAlex
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