Sister Wives, anyone else fascinated?
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The sooner we realize that plural marriage isn't the problem, but rather sexual abuse/rape, we will be better off.
Agreed!!!!
AGREED!!!
and I'd so watch Brother Husbands too...but god no, I wouldn't want 3 husbands...hellllnooooooo!
OH GOD- Can you imagine brother husbands? There would be no way to overrule keggerators and mini fridges in the living room, and X-Box family night, and 80" televisions with giant black leather furniture.
bahahaha!!!!! just. can't. happen.0 -
Brother Husbands:
Brothers to each other so they can do all the drinking, farting and disgusting things with eachother
Husbands duties.....#1 hubby (or all of them hahaha) for sex
#2 hubby is your brute for all the manly jobs and construction/landscaping
#3 hubby is your fun, controlled, easy going date partner that WILL dance with you
#4 hubby is your gay hubby for chick flicks, cuddles and slumber parties
HAHAHA0 -
You might need a #5 other gay husband to keep gay husband #4 occupied, or #'s 1, 2, and 3 might have a problem with the situation. This is turning in to multiplicity!Brother Husbands:
Brothers to each other so they can do all the drinking, farting and disgusting things with eachother
Husbands duties.....#1 hubby (or all of them hahaha) for sex
#2 hubby is your brute for all the manly jobs and construction/landscaping
#3 hubby is your fun, controlled, easy going date partner that WILL dance with you
#4 hubby is your gay hubby for chick flicks, cuddles and slumber parties
HAHAHA0 -
Brother Husbands:
Brothers to each other so they can do all the drinking, farting and disgusting things with eachother
Husbands duties.....#1 hubby (or all of them hahaha) for sex
#2 hubby is your brute for all the manly jobs and construction/landscaping
#3 hubby is your fun, controlled, easy going date partner that WILL dance with you
#4 hubby is your gay hubby for chick flicks, cuddles and slumber parties
HAHAHA
ahhhhhh and I'd die happy.0 -
You might need a #5 other gay husband to keep gay husband #4 occupied, or #'s 1, 2, and 3 might have a problem with the situation. This is turning in to multiplicity!Brother Husbands:
Brothers to each other so they can do all the drinking, farting and disgusting things with eachother
Husbands duties.....#1 hubby (or all of them hahaha) for sex
#2 hubby is your brute for all the manly jobs and construction/landscaping
#3 hubby is your fun, controlled, easy going date partner that WILL dance with you
#4 hubby is your gay hubby for chick flicks, cuddles and slumber parties
HAHAHA
Good point!!!! #5 hubby added, enlisted and fisted.....hmmm....perhaps that was a bit far...LMAO0 -
oooohhhh and #6 hubby the look sexy all the time and drive you around and show you off in a sports car hubby
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oooohhhh and #6 hubby the look sexy all the time and drive you around and show you off in a sports car hubby)
but I guess that could also be #4 or #5 hubby because they will always look good....possibly even better than us...those *****es0 -
I am watching 20/20 right now about the ultra modern family - consenting adults - plural families and I think that while this isn't a lifestyle for me, I'm in total 100% support of families that are.
Of course, not Warren Jeffs style - rainbow sherbet colored gowns and underage wives...
but Sister Wives, well adjusted children, beautiful plural families...what is there not to love?!
I hope all the media attention eliminates the stigma. Just my thoughts, I'm fascinated with the whole concept!
It's immoral & these weak minded adults are raising weak minded children ....why would any sane-minded adult want to share their partner w/another? besides the "love" what is it teaching these children? & the fact that they say it's b/c they all love each other is def. bull , that's just an excuse to do what they do. Some people rather than others can't simply deal with this life & they try to live it the best way they can think how & in reality they are just lost. It's fine that the kids aren't being raised in a hostile home , or getting beaten or mistreated- that's great & all but it's sad for the world to think that this life style is okay. It just goes to show how lost a lot of people are.0 -
Ironically, in some countries it's normal for a man to have multiple wives. They probably look at us and think we're the idiots. Heck, the old testament had a few that were married to multiple wives. It's not for me but I can see why some people find it interesting. We all wonder about it because we always read about this stuff happening in other cultures and it's a surprise to see it happening here. Unfortunately, we have a very high divorce rate in this country so I'm not sure that marrying again and again is any better of a lesson.
Anyway, I think the point of this discussion wasn't to get negative but to joke about it a bit. For example, the whole wife and multiple husbands bit - Personally I'd be fine with the mini-fridges in the living room as long as there was one next to me and I'd better have my own Wi Remote with a cool skin and equal access to that 80" tv. Now, could I keep five or six men happy? Hell no! I have a feeling I'd be exhausted! Men think about sex all of the time. I wouldn't want to deal with that must testosterone. One is enough for me. But, it is funny to think about it. I do wonder if this idea doesn't take off in China. They have areas in their country where the population is now so skewed toward men that they are having difficulties. I mean, it's bad if the dating scene is 3 women to 1 men...imagine 50 men to 1 woman? I'm not sure what's going to happen over there but don't be surprised if they raid neighboring countries for women or go to a plural marriage.0 -
I would be all for it if I could share the wives too! Why should hubby have all the fun?0
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Yipes. I'm glad I wasn't born in China. Imagine 50 husbands to 1 wife - worse yet - 2 Wives with 100 husbands! Aagh. Terrifying.
Nope. I'll stick to the one man/one woman scenario. It's easier to get in a fight for the remote if it's just the two of us. Now, the key part is finding him. Sigh. Well, not going to go there - I'm going to focus on exercise!0 -
Yipes. I'm glad I wasn't born in China. Imagine 50 husbands to 1 wife - worse yet - 2 Wives with 100 husbands! Aagh. Terrifying.
Nope. I'll stick to the one man/one woman scenario. It's easier to get in a fight for the remote if it's just the two of us. Now, the key part is finding him. Sigh. Well, not going to go there - I'm going to focus on exercise!
I prefer the one man... and a second man... model myself. I know the self-appointed morality police take issue with that but they can go suck a... chicken sandwich. LOL0 -
^^This would be awesome!I would be all for it if I could share the wives too! Why should hubby have all the fun?0 -
Not into it. I wouldn't be able to share my husband with other women.0
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... I have a proposition for you ...
^^This would be awesome!I would be all for it if I could share the wives too! Why should hubby have all the fun?
That is, we could, like, make bible themed sock puppets.0 -
I love that show! I can see where that lifestyle could be beneficial for a family, but harder on the women.
I have a similar (but not as extreme) set up at my own house. I have a roommate that pays equal rent that we pay. She contributes to the food and utility costs on halves, even though there's three of us. In exchange, I keep the house spotless and cook dinner for everyone, wash the laundry, etc. We have two boys, and sometimes if my husband and myself want to hang out alone, she watches them for us.
She also will cook for my husband if I am not home and sometimes do light cleaning like dishes. She's an excellent go-between when the kids frustrate me, because they connect with her really well. It's like a sleep-over almost every night. I find our arrangement very mutually beneficial. I handle her finances as well as my own, and she has saved $1000 over a few months because of it. We all go on outings together and have fun.
Just so ya know, I don't share my private time with my husband. That's not part of the deal. But in these hard times, it's been wonderful to have such a rewarding arrangement where I can focus on school instead of working and still afford to live.0 -
I prefer the one man... and a second man... model myself. I know the self-appointed morality police take issue with that but they can go suck a... chicken sandwich. LOL
My son would agree with this. I'm just glad that we live in a country where it is legal for him to marry a man.
As to polygamy, I'm against it because I've seen what it does to some of the kids in that situation. I used to live in a area where there was a community of polygamists, the Blackmores, who used to trade their women and children with their sister community in the US. They were married off young and it was common to see a family of "wives" aging from barely an adult to one in her late 40s shopping at the local stores. Winston Blackmore, the head of the family, frequently had work done at my place of employment. I know of at least 2 kids who escaped from that community because they did not want to be married off to some older person. That's just my opinion, but I had to see it every week for almost 20 years and I'm glad the courts finally charged them.0 -
Speaking of the multiple partner situation...this is a weird thought (don't know if anyone is a science fiction geek here), let's say Mankind discovers a planet that's hospitable to human life, although it's about a 500 year ride in a space ship to get there. Now, would it be better to have more men than women or more women than men? An equal number of women and men? Remember, you've got 500 years worth of family growth going on AND you have to have a decent genetic mix.
Silly me...the geek has come out of hiding!
P.S. I think we all agree that youngsters are too young to make those sorts of agreements and that's not acceptable to any of us. Ok. Back to the silliness.0 -
Speaking of the multiple partner situation...this is a weird thought (don't know if anyone is a science fiction geek here), let's say Mankind discovers a planet that's hospitable to human life, although it's about a 500 year ride in a space ship to get there. Now, would it be better to have more men than women or more women than men? An equal number of women and men? Remember, you've got 500 years worth of family growth going on AND you have to have a decent genetic mix.
Silly me...the geek has come out of hiding!
P.S. I think we all agree that youngsters are too young to make those sorts of agreements and that's not acceptable to any of us. Ok. Back to the silliness.
I think it'd be better to have more women than men to populate. It takes roughly 10 months from zygote to birth, but a man can produce viable sperm almost immediately (or up to three days) after depositing. Unfortunately, you'd have to be careful about inbreeding to a certain extent, but I think more women for reproductive purposes would be more efficient.0 -
When where there be a show about Brother Husbands....I'd totally watch that!!!!
NEXT TIME ON HUSBROS: MAN CAVE MADNESS! [cut to scene of bored-looking dudes drinking beer in recliners and muttering sporadically about sports]0 -
Good point! I suspect the more women and less men would be better. Besides, if you had more men and fewer women I'd be worried about a cultural change where women become more like sex objects. Hmm.
In reference to Caveman madness - Yipes...I just realized what you'd posted. You're right - we'd be bored silly. I hadn't thought of that as a problem. Grin.0 -
Regardless of marital status I think that Cody guy is really odd. He loooooves the attention from the media. I watched the episode when he visited some old friends and they made comments about him being an attention *kitten* in school lol.
Now he's the center of attention for four women, about 20 kids, and a ton of TLC viewers. His life is complete! lol
Guess that answers the question running through my mind. It works when the guy is too needy for just one woman.
Can't imagine myself being in a relationship like that, but then, I also can't see myself wanting to be in a family with that many kids.
On the bright side, women who choose plural marriages leave more men for the rest of us to sort through. 0 -
It is sorta interesting that the multiple wives and one husband topic seems to appear in many cultures but you don't see one wife with multiple husbands. I'm not sure a guy could handle the jealousy of having to share a woman with that many other guys.
It's called Polyandry and you're right it isn't common but it does exist.0 -
Little late in the game but.... if the other wife did all the cooking and cleaning.. I'm game!0
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