Hahaha - yeah, right, accept it, or else!!! That would be the way it would come down. How else would anyone make women accept a situation like that. Yes, the ex is a real turd and stil is. Sometimes I think back and wonder, what the heck did I ever see in him? How stupid was that. To this day he still rules the roost in his little domain. Given half the chance, he would have been another Jeffries. Idiot.

> I think that your experience would have been
> my own if I had been in your shoes. Polygamy
> is probably practiced best (if there is a
> good way to do it) in a culture where it has
> been a tradition. Obviously, American women
> and most Western women are not accustomed to
> such a practice, and for good reasons. Our
> culture, based on a Judeo-Christian ethic,
> did away with polygamy as a common practice
> hundreds of years ago. In fact, the Lord,
> via Paul, put a stop to it himself, which
> would mean that as a common practice most
> Christians have not been polygamous for over
> a thousand years.

> Now back to your experience: I see that the
> reality of your situation was that your
> husband had the sole authority in regard to
> his mates.Your displeasure with the new mate
> didn't persuade him from bringing her into
> your family, and her displeasure with the
> third mate didn't persuade him either. What
> a self-centered @$#$ he was, eh? Someone
> told me on another board that in a
> polygamous marriage all women consent to
> each new mate. I nearly laughed my head off.
> I wondered what reality that poster was
> living in.