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TLCs Seeking Sister Wife profiles people embracing an alternative to traditional monogamous relationships. The polygamist families on the show are all at various stages of trying to add another woman to their relationship.

Many people associate polygamy with Mormons. Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints once embraced plural marriage or one man having multiple wives. The LDS church long ago disavowed the practice. However, members of some fundamentalist Mormon sects still practice it, like the members of the Brown family on TLCs Sister Wives. But polygamy isnt exclusive to Mormon fundamentalists, as Seeking Sister Wife makes clear.

On Seeking Sister Wife Season 3, only one of the five families featured practices a version of the Mormon faith: The Winders.

The Winders who also appeared in season 2 were once members of the mainstream LDS church, according to a profile in the Salt Lake Tribune. Today, they consider themselves Mormon fundamentalists.

For us, this lifestyle is religious, husband Colton said. Colton is married to both Tami and Sophie, and the trio is looking to add a third wife to the family.

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The Winders are the only Mormons on Seeking Sister Wife this season. But theyre not the only ones who decided to embrace polygamy for religious reasons. Garrick and Dannielle Merrifield have faith-based reasons for choosing plural marriage, with Garrick claiming God called him to the lifestyle.

Were Christians, and we decided two years ago that God wanted us to live a plural lifestyle, Garrick explained during the Seeking Sister Wife Season 3 premiere. We dont come from a polygamous background, but we believe in the Bible, and multiple people in there had multiple wives I realized God wasnt against that.

We definitely make God the center of our home, said Dannielle. She admitted she was shocked when Garrick first raised the idea of plural marriage and initially resistant to the idea. Now, the Merrifields are in the process of bringing Roberta, a woman from Brazil, into their marriage.

The other three families on Seeking Sister Wife the Snowdens, the Clarks, and the Jones generally havent talked much about what religious motivations (if any) they have for choosing polygamy. But in a 2019 interview with Fox News, Ashley Snowden said faith didnt play any role in her and her husband Dmitris decision to live in a plural marriage.

I studied anthropology so I thought it was just a beautiful representation of family, she said. I never experienced that in my 33 years on the planet. So the fact that women get to work together and raise a family together and just built this nation up and we have a supportive husband at the head of that always seemed too beautiful to me.

Meanwhile, Dmitri pointed to a belief in feminine centricity as a reason for wanting to be a polygamist.

I believe that women are the catalysts for human evolution, he said. If women are whole and happy like anything they birth or produce whether its children or projects or businesses or services or whatever its going to be epic. He added that he believes women in a polygamous relationship can express their creative freedom and thats always been very intriguing to me.

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It was not Islam that had initiated polygamy rather polygamy was the widespread customary practice in pre-Islamic Arabia which continued in the later ages by distorting the actual revelation of the Quran. The traditional practice of polygamy is one of the patriarchal practices that create discrimination against women by indicating the fact that equality between men and women has not been realised in society. While interpreting the Quranic verses relating to polygamy, jurists belonging to different schools of thoughts, presented diverse observations regarding the wholesale permission and restrictive approval of polygamy. Verse IV: 3 of the Quran which is also known as 'verse of polygamy' says:

'If ye fear that ye shall not be able to deal justly with the orphans, marry women of your choice, two, or three, or four; but if ye fear that ye shall not be able to deal justly (with them), then only one, or (a captive) that your right hands possess. That will be more suitable, to prevent you from doing injustice'.

The classical or traditional jurists interpreted this verse as allowing a man to marry up to four wives, while the modernists as well as contextualists observed that this verse legislates monogamy and allows polygamy only under exceptional circumstances. It will be prudent to note that contextualists emphasise the context and background of the verse. This verse actually urges to ensure proper treatment towards the orphan girls, it does not mean to allow blanket permission of polygamy to the men. During the period of revelation, some male guardians, responsible to manage the wealth of orphaned female children, often engaged in unjust management/misappropriation of the wealth of those children. In order to prevent such mismanagement, the Quran allowed them to marry those female orphans. While permitting marriage, Quran, on one hand limited the number of marriages up to four and on the other hand, envisaged that 'the economic responsibility for maintenance of wife would counterbalance access to the wealth of the orphaned female through the responsibility of management'. The quranic injunction aimed to improve the conditions of weaker segments of the society like orphans and the poor in general.

The historical context of Sharia indicated that in order to ensure security and well-being, women were dependent on men. While there were a smaller number of men because of ravage of war in the seventh century, polygamy was allowed to share one husband with the cowives so that women did not become destitute and helpless. This historical justification suggested that the idea behind the permission of polygamy was to provide human care to the orphaned children and to protect the rights of widows and destitute women.

The key argument of modernists is that while the Quran apparently, allowed polygamy, it added a moral rider to the effect that if a man cannot do justice among co-wives, then he must have only one wife. The meaning of justice does not only imply equality in terms of providing food, shelter, and clothing, it also signifies equality in love, affection, and esteem which is impossible to be rendered by a human being. In support of their argument, modernists relied on the quranic verse IV: 129:

'Ye are never able to be fair and just as between women, even if it is your ardent desire'.

The interpretation of this verse along with the previous verse of polygamy indicated that quranic injunction is functional on two levels: (i) a legal level where limited polygamy was permitted under exceptional circumstances (ii) a moral level where Quran had apparently expected that society would transform with the change of time.

The classical jurists, however, did not consider the 'justice' requirement as a condition precedent to a polygamous marriage rather they left the issue to be decided by the private judgment of every individual husband. Their understanding of quranic verse by giving supremacy to the decisions of individual husbands reflected the notion that men are superior to women. They also relied on the quranic verse II:228:

'And women shall have rights equivalent to the rights against them, according to equitable prevailing practice (al-ma'aruf), but men have a degree [of advantage] over them [them]'.

In interpreting this verse, traditionists preferred to emphasise the later portion of the verse that gives superiority of men over women disregarding the parity of men and women. Contextualists while negating the interpretation of traditionists construed the provision to imply that 'men have a degree of advantage over women' was reflected in the legal status of men and women in the previous context which should have no legal implications in the modern context. Ignoring the significance of context in interpreting quranic verses, conservative jurists hold that polygamy as a response to multifarious situations of necessity is a better option than monogamy practiced in the west where positive laws leave loopholes giving tacit approval to extra marital sexual liaisons. Here, it can be argued that the demerits of positive laws cannot be used as a shield to justify polygamy because wholesale permission of polygamy does not reflect the true essence of the quranic injunction.

Though there exists difference of opinions regarding polygamy, contextual interpretation of the above mentioned quranic verses suggests that an unrestricted licence for polygamy is contrary to the spirit of the Quran. While adopting contextual interpretations of quranic injunctions, Islamic communities have imposed restrictions on polygamous marriages in various countries, including Pakistan, Bangladesh, Syria, Iraq, and Morocco and even there is an example of complete abolition of polygamy as in the case of Tunisia, by virtue of the practice of ijtihad. The Tunisian reformers, by virtue of the practice of ijtihad, highlighted that in addition to a husband's financial ability to maintain a couple of wives, the quranic injunction also requires complete impartial treatment among co-wives. This injunction of the Quran should not be taken as a moral instruction but as a legal condition precedent which requires proving impartiality among co-wives through adequate evidence. The reformers maintained that under modern social and economic conditions, the stipulation of impartial treatment was impossible to fulfil and accordingly they declared to prohibit the practice of polygamy under Tunisian Law of Personal Status 1957.

In Bangladesh under the Muslim Family Laws Ordinance (MFLO) 1961, the practice of polygamous marriages has been restricted by imposing few conditions that include the requirement of taking consent from the existing wife and obtaining permission from the Arbitration Council. In addition to legislative restriction and prohibition, judges interpreted the quranic verse of polygamy progressively either by restricting, prohibiting or condemning the practice of polygamy in a large number of judicial decisions (Cases among others include Jesmin Sultana v. Muhamamd Elias 17 BLD 1997 4, Amena Khatun v. Serajuddin Sardar 17 DLR, (1965) 687). Judges also emphasised the condition of equal and impartial treatment that required to be fulfilled by the husband desirous to have more than one wife.

In the Jesmin Sultana case, the High Court Division (HCD) recommended that Section 6 of the MFLO should be repealed and replaced by a section prohibiting polygamy altogether. While coming to this pragmatic decision the court stated that Muslim jurists and scholars are nearly unanimous on the view that it is practically impossible to deal with co-wives justly, and so the quranic injunction that a second wife may be taken under a specific condition is virtually a prohibition. It is noted that though the Appellate Division did not agree with the decision of the HCD, the observation of the HCD regarding polygamy carries significance and may work as a significant guideline in terms of the interpretation of the cases of polygamy.

The above discussion leads to the proposition that the underlying message of the Holy Quran regarding the injunction of polygamy disregards any discriminatory practices against women by virtue of the practice of polygamy. This Quranic proposition corresponds with the equality and non-discrimination principle of the international human rights law. The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) 1979, considered as a bill of women's rights, categorically condemns discrimination against women in all forms and urges to ensure equal opportunity and treatment for women. In addition, international human rights instruments including UDHR, ICCPR, and ICESCR also contain provisions against discrimination on the basis of sex. Here, if we consider the contextual interpretation of polygamy through the lens of equality and non-discrimination principle, it would be clear that the Quranic injunction of polygamy complements the norms of international human rights law. In addition, the imposition of justice requirement in case of taking second wife implies that Quranic message not only conforms with the equality principle but also is significant to ensure a dignified life for women.

The writer is an Assistant Professor of Law, University of Dhaka.

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Marriage is money and will power. If you dont have money, you dont marry.

If you dont have what to eat, it is not a must to bring a woman into your home especially when you havent eaten. How will you feed the person?

It is about time we told men this bitter truth, Sheikh Anas Tawfik said in a sermon which was posted by influencer Kuburah Diamonds on her Facebook page.

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We are just cheating / maltreating women by the act of polygamy i.e just adding on wives. Which is not right.

But there is the right one or the right way. And that is when the wife and child/children have been well taken care of and live a conducive environment, he advised.

You live in a single room and you want to add another wife. Single room with 5 children and you want to add another wife, wallahi Harammu ni meaning it is a sin.

Single room and chamber and hall and you want to add Amaria (new bride)? Come on!

If you get money, you must take them out of the single room first so they get them a befitting place of abode first and foremost so that when there is another money, then you can bring in a new bride.

But to live in a single room with 5 children and decide to bring an additional wife where you will probably rent another single room for her, Allah wont forgive you! It is about time we told each other the truth.

Some are of the view that if you dont have money, add another wife. Who said that? They claim it is a Hadith? That Hadith will be looked at if it is appropriate or not.

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Every relationship has its ups and downs. Following the Sunday, April 4, episode of Sister Wives which centered around Kody Browns struggles with first wife Meri Brown a new promo revealed another one of his wives is unhappy.

Weve had a rough relationship for a couple of years, Christine Brown said in the sneak peek. Kody, 52, added, Plural marriage is a challenge that she doesnt enjoy. Ill be frank, plural marriage is not a challenge that I enjoy.

Christine, 48, and Kody, 52, tied the knot in 1994 and share six children. However, all the relationships have been tested amid the coronavirus pandemic, with the families unable to spend time with one another.

During Sundays episode, Kody opened up to Meri, 50, about how he felt about polygamy overall and hinted at problems happening in one of his other marriages.

I feel immense pressure all the time for satisfying the emotional needs of a wife that I have sometimes no interest in satisfying, the Wyoming native said at the time and confirmed he wasnt talking about Meri. I have a wife who, I think, will never be happy. Basically, in all the years that I thought we were happy, she wasnt.

He also admitted that hes questioning if anyone in the family Kody is also married to Robyn Brown and Janelle Brown really benefits from their situation anymore.

It makes me wonder if people wouldnt just who have been happy for so many years couldnt just leave and find something that made them happy instead of sitting and badgering me about how Im not doing it right anymore, he said. This is not what I want. This isnt what I signed up for.

Although Kody stated he doesnt want to have to have a big breakup, he is looking for a change.

What Id like instead is a big commitment that everybody will actually do their part and not have it just be me or not have it be blamed on me all the time, he said. Love really isnt unconditional. Nobody is stuck with me and they can all leave.

Last month, the Utah native shared exclusively with Us Weekly that shes never been a monogamous person.

I felt, like, it would cramp my style a lot because Ive never had that as soon as Kody and I married, she told Us. I was the third wife, and so, I really liked the independence that I have and I love the freedom that I have.

On the negative side, Christine admitted that sometimes she feels as though she doesnt have a say or isnt as important as others.

Anytime weve had major decisions, I go through a time where Im like, Does my opinion really even matter here? she told Us. Thats when we struggle the most is when I feel like I dont really have a say or I dont really have an opinion.

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Robyn, Meri, Christine, Janelle, and Kody Brown ofSister Wives have been pushing their jewelry brand, My Sisterwife's Closet, for years now. Season 7, Episode 2 started with the family realizing that they needed a cohesive vision for the business to gain investors. The wives bicker throughout the episode, questioning each other's commitment to the business and sales savvy. Kody, of course, inserts his own brand of patriarchal drama as the wives try to hash it out amongst themselves. At first, the episode is not exactly "cringey" sure, it is awkward to watch Robyn and Meri trade jabs over soup and salad, but then comes the piece de resistance:the Big Presentation.

Let's not mince words: this thing is unbelievably difficult to watch. There are multiple instances of forgotten words and rambling speeches as the wives nervously pitch their jewelry business. In one scene, Robyn straight-up looks like she might upchuck on the floor as the investors stare slack-jawed as if they are watching, well, a particularly gnarly episode of a reality show. Viewers were not exactly charitable about the pitch, either. Said one Reddit commenter of the products: "It's amazing how bad the jewelry was. The pieces looked like a little girl's doodlings." Oof. If you have any sort of fear of public speaking (or an aversion to polygamy-themed jewelry), avoid this episode at all costs.

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Goas Uniform Civil Code (UCC) is neither uniform nor exactly a shining example of a progressive law, given the fact that it discriminates on the basis of gender, even in allowing polygamy for Hindus, amongst other things. Thus, it was surprising to see the claim of uniformity in the spotlight again, after Chief Justice of India (CJI) S. A. Bobde alluded to it when inaugurating the new building of the high court of Bombay at Goa on March 27.

Bobde claimed that Goas UCC is the uniform civil code that Indias constitution framers had envisaged more than half a century ago. Given the fact that some of the provisions of the UCC are not uniform and make allowance for the practices of different communities, the dearth of academic rigour in judges, in characterising Goas family laws as a uniform code, is lamentable. At best, it can be called a quasi-uniform code as Dr. Dario Moura Vicente, professor of law, the University of Lisbon suggests.

Moreover, the CJIs derision of academic talk and his call to intellectuals to come to Goa and watch the administration of the UCC is in bad taste. It appears that the CJI was reacting to a critique by several intellectuals, including activists, who questioned his wisdom of asking a rapist whether he would marry the victim.

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Considering that only a few cases relating to family laws of Goa, and particularly marriage laws, reach the high court in Goa, the administration of the code may be not exactly visible to someone from outside like Bobde, who merely sat on the bench of the Bombay high court, but never practiced here. It is also not understood why the CJI made an isolated reference to the Hindu texts of the shrutis being followed during Kadamba dynasty rule in the same speech.

One can neither conclude that uniformity benefits the subordinated stakeholders in the family law, such as women and children, nor can one conclude that the lack of uniformity does so. As a matter of fact, the dichotomy of uniformity and lack of uniformity is a false one. It is not understood why people aspire for uniformity as a value in law.

To illustrate, there is a provision in Goas family laws for two types of marriages, that is canonical marriages for Roman Catholics, and civil marriages for non-Roman Catholics and those who opt out of canonical marriages.

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A canonical marriage, that is a marriage in the church, cannot be solemnised without the declaration of intent before the civil registrar of marriages, and the priest solemnising the marriage can be held accountable. This, therefore, ensures that there is a complete record created of the marriage, even if the parties have no basic legal education about the registration procedure.

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The provision for Roman Catholics cannot be replicated for Hindus because of different ritual practices in Hindu marriages, wherein in some cases no priest may be involved. But the provision at least works to the aid of Roman Catholics, who, like people from other communities, would have ended up being deceived by a scheming marital family except for the checks and balances introduced in the law. Therefore, though there is categorisation of marriage based on religion, and the law is, therefore, not uniform, but it proves to be beneficial for at least a certain section of society.

Code of Gentile Hindu Usages and Customs of Goa

At another level, part of the package of family laws of Goa is a Code of Gentile Hindu Usages and Customs of Goa. Dr. Dario enlists a Decree of 1869 that formally enshrined the principle of the plurality of personal statutes of Private Law applicable in Portuguese Overseas territories. On the basis of this decree, the Gentile Hindu Usages and Customs were codified and retained, and now continue to be applicable, so long as it is not contrary to moral or public policy, which is different from being not contrary to constitutionality. Certainty is the hallmark of a law. Here, what constitutes moral or public policy lies in the realm of the uncertain.

The Code of Gentile Hindu Customs and Usages has atrociously discriminatory provisions that distinguish how a person should differently take oath in court based on caste, when marriage by simultaneous polygamy can be permitted for a Hindu, under certain circumstances (such as in the absence of male issues until the age of 30 years), when adoption is permitted uniformly for a Hindu of any caste (such as when there is no male progeny), provisions relating to joint families (where the manager has to be the senior most male). But the government has shown no inclination so far to expressly repeal these atrocious provisions to leave no room for uncertainty.

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In fact, a petition challenging one such unjust provision in the Gentile Hindu Usages and Customs which permits only males to be adopted by Gentile Hindus in the absence of legitimate male issues is now pending before the high court of Bombay at Goa. The petitioner, a law student Shukr Sudin Sinai Usgaonkar, has issued public notices through newspapers, following a direction to that effect by the high court to inform the affected parties if any about the issues in the petition, so that they may be at liberty to intervene in the petition.

There are also discriminatory provisions among the provisions that are uniformly applicable. A salient example is the stipulation in the law that the management and administration of the properties of the couple, and even the exclusive properties of the wife, belongs to the husband. No doubt there is a noteworthy concept of marital property rights, but lack of access for women to details about the properties, so as to lay a claim, often renders the matrimonial property rights concept nugatory, even to those women who know about the existence of the concept in Goa.

It cannot be forgotten that the family laws of Goa are a Portuguese legacy, last amended up to the time when Goa was integrated into India in 1961. The law has since undergone substantial change in Portugal. In Goa, the government, recognising that the law needs an update and revision, constituted a committee in 2002, to draft a bill on the Goa Family Code.

The portion of the law on succession and related matters was updated and revised on the basis of a draft of the chapter submitted by the committee and enacted by the Goa Legislative Assembly. The law called the Goa Succession, Special Notaries and Inventory Proceeding Act, 2012, was enacted in 2016, but the series of chapters that had been deliberated on or were remaining to be discussed by the Committee was abandoned.

In a democratic country, people, including academics or intellectuals, deserve, as a right, responsible comments from someone who is at the helm of the Supreme Court of India, rather than derision directed at academics and intellectuals. At the very least, the learned judge should have properly appraised himself of the family laws of Goa before praising them and terming them uniform.

Albertina Almeida is a Goa-based lawyer and human rights activist.

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Seeking Sister WifestarColton Windersays he wants a third wife in his family. But, hes finally revealing who the third woman that hes adding into the marriage is.

Colton Winder from Seeking Sister Wifeshows off how large his current plural family is. Hes bought a house and hes now living with two of his wives, while still seeking to bring in a third. Tami Winder is Coltons first wife and Sophie Winder is Coltons second wife. Sophie is seven months pregnant with Coltons child.

Sophie Winder from Seeking Sister Wifetalks about how she reacted when she found out she was pregnant. Also, she reveals shes expecting to have a baby boy. However, Sophie says she and Colton were trying for a little while before they got pregnant with their son. She says she and Colt have been trying for several years to get pregnant. Also, she says her pregnancy hasnt been easy and that shes really struggled with it. But, seeing the baby on an ultrasound brought forth a lot of different emotions at that moment.

On Seeking Sister Wife, Colton talks about how he and his wives are independent Mormon fundamentalists. He goes on to explain that the Mormonism they follow is a lot more fundamental than other versions commonly found in society. Next, he says plural marriage is a part of his religion and they all believe that marriage is for eternity.

Also, on SSW, Colton Winder talks about how he believes God has wives. Colton says he wants to be as much like God as he can be, so it makes sense for him to have multiple wives. Then, he goes on to explain after a year after marrying Sophie, Sophie and Tami lived in separate towns. Thats because they didnt want the Utah government to find out about their relationship because polygamys considered a felony. Now, polygamy is considered to be no less offensive to the law than a traffic ticket would be.

Colton Winder from Seeking Sister Wifesays he and his wives are looking to add a third wife into their marriage. But, he says the farm he runs right now is currently his third wife.

Colton Winder says hes also talking to a sister wife that lives in South Carolina. This potential sister wife on SSW is named Kimberly. She works as a teacher, is 30 years old, and has a daughter. Sophie says Kimberly reached out to the family on social media, but Colton says everythings going well in the courting process of his relationship with Kimberly. He invites her to come to visit him in Utah, to which Kimberly agrees.

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TEHRAN, Iran - A man gunned down his 9-year-old son and seven relatives of his two wives before killing himself Monday in southwestern Iran, state media reported.

The 50-year-old man also allegedly wounded three others in the shootings in the city of Ahvaz, the report by the official IRNA news agency said. It had no details on the fate of the two wives. Polygamy is legal in Iran.

The report said the assailant, who was not identified, had a criminal record and had previously served time in prison without elaborating.

Gun violence is rare in Iran, where citizens are only allowed to own hunting rifles.

In 2017, a prisoner on leave gunned down five people and injured four others in a rampage in the central Iranian city of Arak. In 2016 a man killed 10 relatives in a remote rural area in the countrys south.

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Tosha and Sidian Jones are one of the new couples on TLCs Seeking Sister Wife, a reality TV show about polygamous pairs who are searching for a sister wife to add to their families. After Sidians divorce from his first wife, he and Tosha his second wife began to search for a plural wife.

In a sneak peek of the upcoming episode of Seeking Sister Wife, which airs Mondays at 8 p.m. EST on TLC and Discovery+, Toshas mom laid all her cards on the table when she asked her daughter if she was part of a religious cult.

Sidian and Tosha are both graphic designers from Boise, Idaho. Theyre raising three kids together, all from Sidians previous relationships.

Tosha actually started out as Sidians second wife. When he was married to his first wife of many years, Sidian began to develop an interest in polygamy. Tosha met her future husband at work, and the rest was history.

But after the Seeking Sister Wife star moved in with Sidian and his first wife, things fell apart. Eventually, Tosha moved out while Sidian and his first wife tried to work on their relationship but it was too late. Tosha and Sidian reconciled, and they realized they were still interested in practicing a plural lifestyle.

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In a sneak peek of the upcoming episode of Seeking Sister Wife, Tosha sat down with her mom, Teresa, to break the news about her polygamous lifestyle.

As it turned out, though, Tosha didnt have to do much explaining. Teresa let it slip that she already knew her daughter was a polygamist.

Who would have thought you were going to grow up to look for a nice second wife? Teresa asked her shocked daughter.

Tosha took a deep breath and admitted, OK, yeah. I wasnt sure how much you really knew or not. I figured you would have heard through the grapevine, but we hadnt talked about it.

The Seeking Sister Wife stars mother said shed actually known for years about her daughters plural lifestyle. Toshas sister had broken the news to Teresa, who initially found it shocking and concerning.

Naturally, Teresa wanted to know more about Sidian and Toshas relationship. She asked how many other wives the couple wanted, and if prospective sister wives would date both Sidian and Tosha or just Sidian.

Teresa also wanted to know if Toshas friendship with a sister wife mattered.

Ideally, we get along, Tosha explained. If we didnt get along, I dont think it would work.

Still, Tosha and Sidian were having a hard time finding anyone who wanted to enter a plural lifestyle.

Its hard to find someone open to it whos not religious about it, Tosha lamented to her mom.

Well, maybe because they dont want to be part of a cult, Teresa retorted bluntly. Next, she asked searchingly, Are you a member of a cult?

The Seeking Sister Wife star giggled and said no, but her mom pressed on with the line of questioning.

Is it a religious thing with Sidian? Is that why he chose it? Teresa probed.

Tosha assured her mom that polygamy wasnt a religious practice for them. Instead, she explained that she and Sidian considered themselves modern polygamists because they werent religious or old-school.

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The reality show Sister Wives premiered on TLC in 2010. The plot of this show revolves around a man,Kody Brown who has four wives and is the father of eighteen children. At the beginning of the series they lived in Utah and they shifted to Nevada. Kody Brown agreed to participate in this show as he wanted to break the prejudicednotion around polygamy. he also said that his situation is not illegal in any way because he is legally married to only one woman while the other three are spiritual unions. The show revolves around their daily life and how they face the challenges with a smile on their faces. If you loved the plot of this show, here are other shows based on a similar concept to watch.

This 2013 show has two seasons and tells the story ofBrady Williams who is married to five women namelyPaulie, Robyn, Rosemary, Nonie, and Rhonda. They are based in Utah and the series chronicles their day to day lives. They believe in the fundamentalist Mormon religion. It has an IMDB rating of 4.4.

This 2018 show tells the stories of three families that are polygamous. This series shows how men choose new women for marriage and how the previous wives react to it. But they are willing to be friendly to the new wife even if they don't like her. It has an IMDB rating of 4.8. This is one of the shows like Sister Wives to watch.

This series is created by National Geographic and chronicles the lives of the fundamentalist Mormons living in Arizona. This series shows how this community incorporated the values taught by their religion. It has an IMDB rating of 7.8.

This Lifetime original series tells the story of three sistersAndrea, Jessica and Shanell who break away from their polygamous family. They spread information and help other men and women break away from their families a swell. It has an IMDB rating of 7.

This documentary was based on Warren Jeffs, the former leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The film showcases the members accusing him of sexual and financial abuses. It has an IMDB rating of 7.3.

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