Sister Wives: And Then There Were Four

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   Alison Z
   Posted October 5, 2010 at 5:18 pm

   Great recap TheMiki! Next week looks like a good one! Meri-Alpha Wife gets all pissed at the manwhore! Can’t wait. I think Janelle is pretty cool and laid back. She works and has a routine with her kids at night. I think Christine is just a jelous nagging bitch! She is the one that told him that he was lovesick and it was time to marry again! Stupid bitch…Meri has been married to this guy for 20 years, If I were her, I would be checking my ass out of the hotel!!! I think that Meri and Robin are going to be close, I can see that Meri doesn’t care for Christine much anymore…

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   ohralphie
   Posted October 5, 2010 at 5:23 pm

   Excellent recap themiki!
   I would be a lot more respectful of polygamy if the men didn’t pick hot young things to marry….per gods will, of course. I’d believe that polygamy was religiously motivated if these guys were bringing home women their own age.
   But as Flipit said, perhaps that will happen when women start writing the bible/koran/whatthehellever.

   Aside from the Lexus I don’t see the appeal of brodad. And no matter how hard it is to raise three kids alone I can’t see moving in with the hag harem as a particularily good option. Robin should join eharmony and hope for the best.

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   Nikki Hughes
   Posted October 5, 2010 at 6:37 pm

   OK, I was WONDERING what the frak…..I kept reading Flipit’s post, and thinking I was crazy, because that was not what I watched, but a LOT of it was the same, hahahaha.

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   wearylulu
   Posted October 5, 2010 at 6:52 pm

   This show is a train wreck. The women seem miserable, but willing to sacrifice their personal happiness under the thin guise of “doing what needs to be done”. Why is all of this necessary? They seemed happy enough as they were (like I would know!), but decided to go ahead and throw a stick-figure in for good measure? I think that Kody is having a mid-life crisis, nothing more, nothing less. He wanted the excitement of an affair, and is using his religion to justify his selfish actions. And Robin doesn’t seem to care that much, either! She went on and on about not wanting to hurt anyone, but in the end she just kind of shrugs it all off! I don’t buy it.
   My brother is in a polyamorous relationship and has been for years. He has a husband, but also a boyfriend. His husband has multiple lovers as well, and everyone must approve of a new person being added to the mix. It’s similar, but EVERYONE gets what they want, and no one feels like 2nd best. I wonder how Bro-dad would feel if his ladies wanted to add another sausage to the pot? methinks he would flip just a bit….what a doucher…

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   notwithoutmytv
   Posted October 5, 2010 at 6:57 pm

   Is the Beta wife pregnant, or is she just naturally globe-shaped? Was she always spherical, I wonder? I would tell the original conjugal triad that I’d had–what does Bill call them on Big Love? burning visions, Smith-epiphanies, Calls on the Red Phone of Polygamy?–a whatchamacallit about the spousal situation, and it’s that I need a new scene, and I’d board that Lexus with the Skinny Wife and make tracks, baby! I might be a little sorry that Ridge and Heath and Sorrel and Hermione and little Ultramarine would have to grow up without a daddy, but it wouldn’t stop me from being fruitful with the new Skinny Wife…

   And, on a slightly more serious note, as long as they ARE raising fairly normal, fairly happy kids, I agree… run you house however you want. Plenty of traditional marriages are raising kids who ought to be locked in cages and fed with sticks. Mostly, I encounter these demonspawns in expensive restaurants and in movies theaters while I’m trying to enjoy some senseless violence at an R-rated movie.

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   seabasslee
   Posted October 5, 2010 at 9:35 pm

   Thank you so much for making me laugh! The name for Christine, Yf3, make me laugh so much. Her kids do have funny names.
   I’m a single mom of 3 girls. I would rather be alone than be with a man with 3 other wives. I don’t like to share. Did it ever come up about Robin’s kids dad. Is he around?

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   HappyHousewife
   Posted October 5, 2010 at 10:02 pm

   Yf3 doesn’t own a toaster because she’s afraid a likeness of Jesus would burn into her toast and tell her to stop being an idiot and leave the Manwhore.

   Great recap! I was laughing all over the place.

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   proda
   Posted October 5, 2010 at 10:24 pm

   Just one question. Why do you keep telling the nasty sleazy vermin to “run”. Shouldn’t those pathetic women do the running. I sure would. This guy is mega creepy. Not that the women are a prize either and I mean none of them. Just cause wife 4 is “30″ (don’t think so) doesn’t make her a hottie. She has to be very bizzare to want in on this freak show! Thanks for the recap. I can’t help but love this show.

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   giffordsaz
   Posted October 6, 2010 at 3:13 am

   Just started reading….. but…. but Happy housewife.. take it back.. it isn’t Jesus burned into the toast.. thats is normal…… it is Joesph Smith, the freaking father of polygamy….many wives, and children for him, and then for the others when they got wind of it. That freak was no different than David Koresh or Jim Jones.. a power hungry man with sex issues who made up a religion so he could abuse women and children. In todays society he would be more than tarred and feathers, he would be killed by our government.

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    wasabipeas
    Posted October 6, 2010 at 4:47 am

    I agree that the dad is super creepy. He gives off a “used car salesman/ambulance chaser” vibe!!! All those hugs and smiles and looks of deep concern and then he says THERE IS NO WAY AROUND HURTING HIS WIVES????????? What a faker!

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    Angela Parisi LaRoe
    Posted October 6, 2010 at 6:01 am

    Great job TheMiki. I kind of like Alpha Wife because she seems to be the most, well, normal? She just seems like she has a good attitude. She is like, “Well, he has been aroundthe block two times already. I can’t get knocked up so HELLO! Get married!”

    I think I read somewhere he is only legally married to Alpha Wife.

    Great job as always TheMiki. The comment on the whole lesbian dating thing was great. It is SO true. We get em, then drop them by the time the passion phase ends. HAHA

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    themiki
    Posted October 6, 2010 at 6:47 am

    Thanks all.
    @Proda–I agree that dude is a giant bag of douche. I’m telling him to run more in a general, four wives sound like more than any person could deal with sort of way. But yes, the wives should be running. Or waddling as it were.

    @Seabassie– I’ve been wondering about Robin’s babydaddy as well. They haven’t mentioned him on the show.

    @Happy Housewife– Hello Kitty is your lord and personal savior. Bow to his or her toasty likeness!!!

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    sheesh
    Posted October 6, 2010 at 7:00 am

    So did Brodad choose the “lifestyle” because of religion or did he choose the religion because of the “lifestyle”.

    With the addition of the 4th wife…why now? That’s the question I would be asking. It’s been 16 years. Why get someone that already has kids? Blending families is tough enough and I see ALL kinds of problems down the road just because of that.

    I’m not opposed to the multiple marriages “different strokes for different folks” but I do have a problem with the inequity in these marriages.

    Maybe the original three wives are over Brodad and he needs someone new to fawn all over him.

    He just looks like a fucking douche to me.

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    Bridget Miller
    Posted October 6, 2010 at 7:29 am

    When I watch this show all that comes to mind is: “Women write your own bible.” That Duggar woman would also be much better off with a bible written by a woman. First anyone- man or woman should be afraid of a religion that is run by a zombie messiah, but women totally get shafted (pun intended) in Christianity.

    Also my dad had a theory that women are so complicated (in a very good way) that they need to have more than one mate and that the polygamist got it wrong. This guy has no idea what his wives need. He is completely clueless. I really don’t care who you marry or how many people you marry. The problem that I have with polygamy is that older men hide behind religion, so that they can marry 13 year old girl because younger girls are the most fertile and can bear them the most children for their heavenly planet. Also I don’t care for the inequality in any religious marriage. So I don’t think that we should let the Christians marry.

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    Alafoss5
    Posted October 6, 2010 at 8:03 am

    Question: Given that bigamy and polygamy is illegal in all 50 states, how can these people get away with a television show about it?

    I mean, it’s not like MTV shows video of the Jersey Shore kids shooting up steroids or doing blow.

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    Bridget Miller
    Posted October 6, 2010 at 9:25 am

    @Alafoss5: My understanding is that the government really doesn’t go after polygamy unless there are cases of underage girls being married to older men. People do get investigated for instances of bigamy or polygamy, but rarely do these case end up in court. The cases that end up in court are the ones that involved instances of young girls being married off. Actually the family on this show is under investigation for bigamy- right now the DA is deciding if they have enough evidence to file charges against the husband and the wives. If the DA decides to do that all of them could get up to five years in prison.

    I think that the laws making bigamy and polygamy illegal are completely outdated and antiquated. I understand that by making polygamy illegal it makes it easier to investigate polygamist sects that marry young girls to older men and also are involved in trafficking those girls across state lines, so that they can be married to older men in another sect. But if a person isn’t engaged in these types of activity, they should be free to marry whomever they want and as many people as they want.

    I have no problem with polygamy- as long as the woman has a choice to take part in that lifestyle. I have been reading a book that gives accounts of women that were born into a polygamist sect and they were not given a choice about entering into a pleural marriage. These women eventually end up leaving their marriages because the arrangement made them so unhappy and unfulfilled. They wanted more from their lives than to just be a brood mare for their husband. In the end they had to either cut ties or run away from their friends and families because they would have been forced to stay with their husbands.

    The book also includes accounts of women who had a choice about being in a pleural marriage or not and not surprisingly these women are much more happy with their situation. Some of the women didn’t even come from a polygamist family, but they wanted the safety and camaraderie that comes from being in a big family.

    What was most disturbing to read about is that the leader of a polygamist sect is considered a prophet, so his decisions and decrees come from God and people have to obey him. The prophet gets to decided who gets married to who and/or those wanting to get married have to have his approval. This is how young girls end up getting married to pedophiles-urrr. Also in large families- were the male has upwards of 15 or more wives. Most of the men will keep track of their wives ovulation cycles, so that he can schedule when he is going to have sex with her. Marriage isn’t so much about love, but all about making more and more children in order to populate some guy’s celestial family. Mormons think that they need to have lots of kids, so that they will have more blessings in the afterlife. Also once they die, they get to rule over a planet and that planet is full of their family members, so having more wives or more children will make their planet a happier, more blissful place. My planet would be bliss if my family wasn’t there and if it was populated with unicorns, a fur coat and a flying car.

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    Lisa
    Posted October 6, 2010 at 11:39 am

    in those pologimist compounds, don’t they like get a lot of welfare because the state doesn’t recogonize their marriages and so they list themselves as single mom’s with fourteen kids????

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    Bahu Rupiya
    Posted October 6, 2010 at 12:19 pm

    @ohralphie …I would be a lot more respectful of polygamy if the men didn’t pick hot young things to marry…

    I know, right? I’m sure it’s just one of those coincidental convergences – 16-20 years ostensibly happily married to those 3, then suddenly decides to go for a 4th one, who just happens to be 20 years younger and fit in sample sizes.

    There’ll be lots of monogamous middle aged viewers who can totally relate!

    @wearylulu …The women seem miserable, but willing to sacrifice their personal happiness under the thin guise of “doing what needs to be done”…

    Yeah, they’re really embracing the “let’s find common ground” strategy.

    Meri said something to the effect that the only reason she’s still in is because of her commitment to commitment or something, and her daughter.

    Maybe she’ll decide to go for another chunk of common ground, finish her studies, and bounce. The daughter is almost grown, how traumatic could 1 or 2 hits of an “every other Christmas” arrangement be?

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    hollagirl2
    Posted October 6, 2010 at 12:36 pm

    im pretty sure joseph smith was killed for his beliefs when he was ambushed in the prison he was being held at…although i could be mistaken. It may not have been a formal execution by the government, but close enough.

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    themiki
    Posted October 6, 2010 at 1:09 pm

    If my shaky memory of Mormon history is accurate, I believe Joseph Smith died in a gunfight with some people who opposed his attempts to destroy a newspaper because it opposed his political views. He shot at some people and got shot at back and died. So… He was sort of killed for his beliefs, but a more fitting description would be that he died trying to kill people for not agreeing with his beliefs. Real role model, that one.

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    TheMiki
    Posted October 6, 2010 at 1:11 pm

    @alafoss — From what I understand, polygamy is illegal in the same way that gay marriage is illegal. The states don’t recognize it as a legal union, but no one’s gonna come busting down your door because you call some lady you’re not legally married to you “Wife.” I could be wrong here, but I think the only legal ramifications are when one of the wives is underage, or when couples try and get marriage benefits and legal recognition of more than one of those unions.

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    hollagirl2
    Posted October 6, 2010 at 1:29 pm

    @themiki– i believe you’re right in regards to the newspaper dispute that led to his arrest…My history is rusty as well… time to pull out my ‘Under the Banner of Heaven’ copy lol

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    TheMiki
    Posted October 6, 2010 at 1:37 pm

    I’m just gonna wait for those nice boys in the black slacks and button up shirts to come back to my door so I can ask them…

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    Bridget Miller
    Posted October 6, 2010 at 4:16 pm

    @Lisa: You are right. A lot of the women do get welfare and assistance because they are single mothers raising tons of kids. Also many of them are very poor because their husband doesn’t make enough to support all his wives and his children, so they are often forced to seek outside help and assistance. But at the same time many of the compounds do try to be self sufficient by doing things like- growing much of their own food, making their ow clothes, building their houses, etc.

    In the book that I was reading: it said that many of the children that grew up in a polygamist compound are unable to read and write. Often the women get stuck having to live on the compound and enter into a pleural marriage because they can not read and don’t have the skills needed to get a job. There are volunteer programs, started by ex-polygamist, that send teachers into various well known compounds to teach the women how to read and to give the women vocational training. Often what happens is that after the training, the women enter in the job force, and end up leaving their husband. People, generally, are not happy when they don’t have much control or choice in their life.

    I also thought that Joseph Smith was caught cheating, so he told his wife that God told him that men need to be married to multiple wives. Many other Christian leaders have come out and said that Joseph Smith was a false prophet. Which isn’t saying much because they believe in many other false doctrines. In a way all religions are made up. Or have an element of fantasy in them, but Mormonism is one of the most made up/fake religions of all religions. It really is more of a secret cult than a religion.

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    Bahu Rupiya
    Posted October 6, 2010 at 7:57 pm

    @Bridget Miller yeah, so many discussions intended to be about secular vs religious state and/or equal protection under the law – and I’m talking about venues where that stuff is the focus, not websites about enjoyment of trashy TV shows – are almost immediately smothered in anecdotes about everything from everyday Mansluts Behaving Badly to sexual predators to social costs of economic models, till all that’s left is an unrecognizable rhetorical tangle of Silly String non sequitur…

    Still, I’ll be the first to admit that a show about a happy and stable polygamous family together for 20 years with no interest in adding additional sister wives would be about as entertaining as one about the Real Housewives of Anywhere starring a cast of women in happy and stable monogamous relationships where nobody ran around screaming about ManJuice, yanking wigs or providing viewers a weekly display of epically garish and deplorable fashion choices would be really boring and fail to generate revenue for the producers.

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    candygram
    Posted October 10, 2010 at 4:25 pm

    dear themiki, one way i have found to get rid of the boys in the nice white shirts is to tell them “yes!” you are extremely excited about wanting to know all there is about mormonism and please call back as soon as possible with your (complimetary) copy of the book of mormon. you will never see them again. it works.

    on another note, what gives with this network doing a show about something that is illegal nationwide? with this and the duggars i have to think the mormons own this network. there’s NO WAY, no number of cute polite kids (albeit with goofy names), no amount of supportive sisterlyness, and no smarmy brodadness can ever convince me this is nothing more than sexual exploitation of women. they manage to put a cleaned up and shiny gloss on it…but it’s weird, perverted, horrible, a lie. these women have given up.

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    jsacks4
    Posted October 11, 2010 at 2:57 pm

    Doesn’t Beta wife look like Shrek?

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    Miss B
    Posted November 1, 2010 at 10:41 am

    “Okay, back to the hate.” haha this was too funny.
    Brodad isn’t a looker now, but I can’t say the same when he was younger (have you guys seen his pics?) Anyway, aside from that, Mary made a bad decision when she introduced Robyn. HELLO! Being the jealous one, why would you do that to yourself? Unless of course, it’s all part of the script. Either way, Robyn shouldn’t have agreed to this nonsense. Although pretty, she’s the rotten apple. Or consider her the “poisoned apple” who will be the death of the other sister wives (metaphorically, of course).

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    Chris
    Posted November 4, 2010 at 8:11 am

    This is the funniest most entertaining recap EVER!!! Everyone’s comments made me piss my pants!!! I dislike this douchebag dude – if he is gonna use the tanning bed he should remove the goggles for a few minutes – he looks like a filthy raccoon!

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    giffordsaz
    Posted November 4, 2010 at 10:16 am

    hi Chris… LONG time no see… how are ya doing?