Say What You Will About Polygamy, But Read This Woman’s Story First

Real life sister-wife, Vicki Darger, opens up about her experiences with polygamy and how it affected her post-partum depression in an article for the Huffington Post.

“Most men don’t enter this lifestyle so they can have more sex; rather, they have a sincere sense of a higher purpose. I’d rather share Joe than have a hundred men of lesser quality to myself,” she wrote. Collaborating with her husband and two sister-wives she wrote Love Times Three, a book extolling the virtues of polygamy.

“I consider Joe to be a monogamist. He is faithful to me, and faithful to the people I expect him to be faithful to.” I was a bit worried reading this line, seeing it as her finding herself to be only a third of a person. I was angry that she could see her husband as a monogamist with three wives.

But then I read this, “It works for some people to live together, for some to be married, and for some to love another person of the same sex. None of those relationships is immune from the challenges we’ve faced in our family.” And it all started to make sense.

Polygamy could really be seen as another different form of love. She sees her marriage, including two other women, as a perfect lifestyle choice for herself. ”We’ve created a marriage that is a true collaboration, which ensures that our opinions are valued, our needs met, and our lives tightly linked together,” she says.

Sure, there are ups and down when she believed a one-on-one relationship would be best, but this worked for her. ”In the end, what got me through this rough time was the steadfast devotion of my husband and my sister wives. They never gave up on me. They saw me at my worst and still loved me.” And who could have something bad to say about that?

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