Multiple table inheritance subclass with an additional OneToOneField relationship to the parent class

I have a model which in essence boils down to this:

class Person(models.Model):
    name = models.TextField()


class MarriedMan(Person):
    wife = models.OneToOneField(Person, on_delete=models.CASCADE,
                                related_name='husband')

But when I try to generate the migration, I get the following error:

django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Add parent_link=True to webapp.MarriedMan.wife.

It looks like Django is promoting the wife OneToOneField to be the parent_link relationship. But that's not what I'm trying to do. I want MarriedMan to have the default implicit OneToOneField for its parent class Person record, plus an extra OneToOneField for its wife.

As far as I was able to understand from the docs, the way to specify that this is not my intention is by not passing parent_link=True.

If you want to control the name of the attribute linking back to the parent, you can create your own OneToOneField and set parent_link=True to indicate that your field is the link back to the parent class.

As a workaround I could manually specify the parent_link relationship in addition to the wife field, but that doesn't seem like the correct solution.

Am I missing something?

Thanks.

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