Last night during Book club Discussion Yazzy our blogger asked the question about Polygamy. Actually she said that she saw where I mentioned in a comment or a post that I agree with the act, to which I corrected her in stating that I did not agree with it, but I understand it, after it was explained to me from an African. I see polygyny/polygamy in Africa first hand, and while the whole concept after it was explained to me is understandable when you really think about it, for certain people it just would not work. Polygyny is man being allowed to have more than one wife, Polygamy is the ability to have more than one wife or husband, men and women can do this as opposed to Polygyny which only pertains to men. The more than one husband thing appeals to me, bad, nah tell no ie!
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The article below is one I found this morning on the internet, but I had originally written on this subject before. In the story I had posted before I told a story of Alhajji in Nigeria, I will copy and paste that which I wrote here;
This morning I sat at my computer wondering what subject will I write on today. I am not a good typist and I am very spontaneous, so I do not plan ahead before I put a topic up. I just sit and write, then I go off down memory lane, some memories as many of you know are very painful for me to re-visit, but as I sit here this morning, my many life experiences becomes alive in my head, begins to swirl around, probably saying “pick me, pick me”, lol.
I woke up this morning to someone banging the gate of our compound and saw that it was Alhajji, a friend of my husband who would often come to visit us sometimes and was a very funny man, funny as in comedian. The name Alhajji tells us that he is Muslim and has made a pilgrimage a to the Holy City Of Mecca, which for Muslims is like Christians going to Jerusalem, Jews going to Israel, Orisha people going to Ile Ife and the Rasta man going to Ethiopia, earning him this very prestigious name/title and for a woman who has made the trip to Mecca she would be referred to as Alhajja. Alhajji was here to see my husband because yesterday his first wife was at our compound to report Alahjji. Alhaii has three wives, but according to the first wife Miriam, he had not been home in a month. Meanwhile we saw Alhajji everyday with his sweetheart on our compound,… oonuh notice mi sey sweetheart, ?…not included in the three wives enuh, bad ei si!!, and I am not laughing, although I like him I do not condone those kinds of behavior, but I observe and say nothing….. Miriam has five children for Alhajji, and the other wives each had two. They all did not live in the same household, but they all spoke and were friendly to each other, and referred to each other as “my wife”…(We Jamaican women couldn’t handle this yah at all, we too aggressive and territorial, not even sister Jezebel and the Empress dem from uppa Bobo hill wouldda good wid this, no sah!).
Miriam begged my husband to talk to Alhajji because the children at home were asking for their dad, the youngest one was three months old, and also people were talking, and she also told him that the other wives had already reported Alhajji to her. So my husband sent one of our boys, after trying to get Alhajji on the phone without success, to give him a message to come see him on our compound so that the matter could be resolved. This is what I love about Africa and African people. The interest of everyone is a community affair. If there is a problem elders of the family or of tradition or community leaders or heads are called in for a meeting to resolve an issue. The propaganda which have been made up by the media to stigmatize Africans as Savages, Neanderthals, Illiterates, and more is far from the truth. I am not saying that there are no thieves and bad people here but no more than everywhere. The family and community unit is is strong, solid and binding. I cannot say it enough, I am a proud African!
I try not to be judgmental because I know for sure that all that happens in life good or bad are for us to learn from, so we must focus and be objective at all times. Being judgmental closes our minds and blinds us from reality and certain truths revealed to us through physical beings and non-physical ones. Approach everything with an objective mind, this is how you will learn and understand situations deemed incomprehensible or which stretches the limitations of our minds.
I know it is not easy because we all (most people) have our minds already set on how certain things ought to be and when we observe or are privy to what we believe should or should not be so, we judge, this is human emotions operating off limitations. Apart from having three wives Alhajji has girlfriends, these he has to hide from the wives, but I am sure they know because we see him around town and at every party with a different woman every month. I complained to my husband about Alhajji’s behavior because it bothered me, (I am no busybody but I was offended by his waywardness, having already three wives) bad enough he had all those wives but girlfriends??! is what him have so special? And I did not like that influence around my husband, lol, yes man, mi Jamaican self come out and bad him up pon it. I could not help it.
He laughed and told me that they were of two different character and Alhajji destiny was not the same as his so I should calm down and with wisdom and clear understanding I did. I once asked someone here in Africa about this polygyny/polygamy, why was it accepted and allowed to happen, and he said it was the best thing! Shocked but never showing it, I asked him to explain.
He said that there are many different circumstances why a man would want more than one wives and many reasons why the woman would accept to be apart of an extended family. According to him if the man marries the first wife and they have children and are happy together with no problems the possibility to be tempted to step out of his marriage and have a relationship or sex with another woman is always present regardless of his love and devotion to his current wife, who knows what tomorrow may bring?. The temptation of the flesh is real and rather than having a “girlfriend” and sneaking about the place with her, and when the wife calls he cannot answer his phone or he lies. Also if she becomes pregnant he is responsible not only for the child but also for her and he cannot abandon her or hide her or the child so he brings her into the family as his second wife, or as the Yoruba call it Iyawo! first wife is Iyale if she is the only wife then it is Iyawo which means wife (E-yah-wo Iywo or E-yah-lay- Iyale)...ohh note this.. As a rule, he must discuss this with the first wife and she must agree before the second wife comes into the family, if she resists, then family from both sides are called in for a meeting, if resistance is still met often tmes the man will still go ahead and marry the girlfriend but he will allow her to have her own home or apartment. The JuJu in these kind of relationship is plenty however. Often times the man will marry and the other wives smiles and welcome the new wife, but give her hell with Juju and the families join in wid de obeah..lol..sometimes they turn the Juju on the children and even kill the husband. It is a good thing for us to try and understand other people culture, to step outside our box with an open mind and plus it makes for an interesting topic at a dinner party..
Then there is within the traditional practices when a person becomes initiated and receives Ifa, he is told through his life’s plan (Odu) by the other priests/babalawos that he will have more than one wife, some are told that he can only have one wife, again it depends on his Odu. With this there is no choice, because it has been predicted ,written out by you before you come from heaven to earth, This is also practiced within the Islam religion and the women are mentally prepared to accept this from an early age and the men are expected to carry it through according to the holy Koran. However Imams and practicing muslims have told me that a man is to marry his brothers wife, if he is killed and cannot be there for his responsibility, marry in way of taking her and the children on, it was not meant for him to be intimate with her, but dem tun it fi dem way!
To further understand this very interesting subject let me share this article with you. I know it is long, but read it at your leisure, information is knowledge and knowledge can never be bad…also tek in de video up top!
Irun ò ni kún kí abẹ ma lè ge. /
The hair can’t be so bushy that the blade won’t be able to cut it. Yoruba Proverb!
[No impossibility]
All religion are valid as long as it teaches peace and love…..Obara Meji!
There are no disappointments in life, only lessons learned…..Obara Meji
Read This
https://www.theperspective.org/polygyny.html
Longtime post from Embracing Spirituality below have a read;
[…] you all remember him with the three wives and a host of girlfriends from the Polygamy post? read here, well after they were able to calm down My Oluwo, he instructed Alhaji to drive the rain back. […]
Goodnight my loves. Mi dis a reach… work was cray’ … sorry mi late.
I’m gonna read and ketch up! Unuh nuh badda disappear pan mi eenuh. Mi wi shame LOL!
Ps, mi love man eenuh suh mi feel fi guh research weh mi can freely practise polygamy! Me and mi 7 man dem! Ayeeeeeeeeee! BUT nuh badi nah KNOWINGLY tun mi inna no umuch umuch wife! HELL NO! 😀
Grung…
Yazzy, you started it and here you have it. Me de work…gwan read. I’ll pop in and out.
Ok Cami Cam. Mi just dun wuk and you jus a begin… is life. Be safe… gwaan peep. Atleast yuh get fi peep! A bare yeye deh pan mi all di damn time lately .. mi affi a dodge di yeye dem like potholes in Jamaica! It doa look good!
lol…when yu ditch one pothole you go ploop in a next one.
Imagine having the polygamy option? I would select each men base on skills. A carpenter, a painter, a plumber, an electrician, a Hvac man, Lawn maintenance, a banker, lawyer, doctor, police (hum hum man in uniform) and a cocks man, lol. I may have more than the lawful amount of men…lol
Thank you Nyaha for sharing your customs…I love to learn about others….
Nyaha I loved that there is no English equivalent to words in your language….
Hey Obara
I agree with you Ty, I do understand it but I do not necessarily agree with it wholeheartedly!
Well I certainly accept the cultural, social and economic reasons behind polygamy….it really is just another social structure….for me, as long as women, Have a choice as whether or not they can enter in these marriages, it is ok by me…I have no first hand knowledge and so only basing my thought on what I have read and heard…it appears that polygamy is a complex social structure that has more to do with economics, population growth, and culture…and has less to deal with love…. I feel love is the strongest force there is ….so I wish that love played a… Read more »
” I certainly accept the cultural, social and economic reasons behind polygamy….it really is just another social structure….for me, as long as women, Have a choice as whether or not they can enter in these marriages, it is ok by me”
Thanks Ty…when me caught up me fail to express me self with clarity…a so me feel tonks. Once me hear about sex and this possession argument it throws me, but the issue is exactly how you present it.( (HUGSS))
Has fi yu bonunossss! grunnng!…..him would kick and scream all the way to the alter and the matrimonial home, lololol
Nunu the African women are conditioned to accept it, unless they are christian, and even in christianity it is easy for them to change their minds because it is a way of life there. Muslim women are born to know that this is a fact of life and therefore readily accept their sister wives. Some will be pure and accept it without feelings while others will act as if all is well and juggle juju behind the scene. In Africa if a man has many wives and they all live together with no quarrel they sat that man is strong!… Read more »
Look like the topic pooped everyone out. lol
No Cami mi phone bnot working won’t charge
Hey Ty!
I’m at work and I swear I wish I wasn’t…this post is hot.
This is Igbo land in this movie, but I doubt any priest acts like this, I am suspecting that this is a christian mande movie, and if so, they will make the peirest look stupid and talk lies!
First I want to apologize for my late reply. Now let take this topic to my tribe “Igbo” it’s the eastern part of Nigeria. Men with 2-3 wives are mostly the Chiefs, Kings “Eze” dibia “babalawo” it’s very common to see this men with more than one wife. Then men without titles like I mentioned above happen to be people who were caught in the act. Cheating on their wife and things went wrong. The side girlfriend becomes pregnant. The wife gets to know, if the girlfriend says no, I’m not going to terminate the pregnancy. This man has no… Read more »
Yes Charles as Cami says spend a little time with us if you can, and like Nyaha share with us what you know as per your tribe or others about this topic, we are all here to learn, and although I can easily call my Igbo friend to tell me, I would like you to share what you know with us, please ah beg!
Charles, how are you?
My great grandfather had one one wife, he and my great grandmother liked it that way. Its a choice, you can choose what works for you. I agree that nowadays its used as a way to justify cheating. I do think that women need to know the rights they have when it comes to being a wife, 1, 2 or 3. If anyone violates those rights in the marriage their should be consequences, divorce can be one of them.
So Charles is it common for the igbo?
If I love my wife, why would I want to take another wife. I know it’s our culture to marry as many wife. Come to think of it, it’s called greed. If we encourage marrying as many as possible, we equally encouraging divorce. Alhaji is a womanizer. Teach, bear in mind that most time, the husband will use juju to tame the woman. I don’t have tell you this teach, you understand what, im saying. No woman can stand the sight of seeing his man with another woman, not to mention marrying another wife. I’m made of black and im… Read more »
That’s what I wondered too Charles dealing with the emotional part would seem difficult coupled with the different personalities that’s alot to deal with
Charles, you seem more urban. Are you not expose to any village customs?
Cami (smiles) if Im not exposed to my village customs. I wouldn’t have been here. I believe so much in tradition. But this who I’m Cami
Charles, yes your world view is yours and yours only…but I’m seeking knowledge from a cultural perspective. Remember, I’m of the diaspora so I have no exposure unless I come to Africa, like our Professional teacher of Metaphysics, Obara.
Charles, I wanna shake your hand…
Me ago say it off di bat…I could not sit in the audience and see mi good good man, mi bunnununoos, mi husband…a marry, kiss and go away on honeymoon wid another woman….
No diamond, apartment or money could appease me…
I have much respect for women who can do it…but not I….
Toy, Muslims do not practice polygamy like traditional Kikuyus. Obara Meji, I mean that a “husband” is not necessarily a man. It can be a woman. A wife is always a woman because she is the one who gives birth to children. This is going to be long lol. The husband is the one whose family asks for a wife, the husband is the person who provides the home (in today’s time it can be translated as the primary person who contributes financially to the home). There are certain responsibilities the husband has, one someone dies, born, when their children… Read more »
So from a western outlook, basically she’s called “husband” because she has taken on the “male”role in the family
no, in our language she is called “husband”, “husband” is a role, a position. I don’t know what that word would be in english. Translating it directly it is called the one who picks. Because during one of the traditional marriage ceremonies, the person who picks/selects the woman is called the “husband”. The word “wife” directly means the one who provides
Yes, Nyaha, but please explain husband can be man or woman, I d not understand that part
I love to learn and I have no judgement, so please teach, please ah beg!
@Toy I will forever share!
Well do Muslims practice polomagy the way that Africans do that are not Muslim?
Yes it is illegal. Lots and lots of money is being given to raise up the issue so it can be legal. GOD FORBID it happens. It, like other aspects of foreign culture is killing our own culture. We do not have the mechanics to deal with it. I feel so sorry for elders and older people, they hear words, see certain things and it just kills them. They can’t understand how people can do such things.
Nyaha is Homosexuality illegal in Kenya? it is in Nigeria!
Grung@Yw lolololol!
Me Nyaha, I wondered the same thing!
What do mean, marrying all four at once? Why because there isn’t a rank system for the wives if it’s do e this way?
Nunu, yes kinda a “rank system” and he has not even proved he can make one woman happy. Can he even provide for one? Can he meet the demands for one? Then now he wants four? it seems foolish
I don’t get how the women agreed either, maybe the man was able to convince the four women. IF it is an African wedding, its not JUST about the people getting married. How he (and maybe them) were able to convince the families, I don’t know.
Economics.
One of the articles talks about a man who married four women at the same time. Now that I have never heard of before. I don’t know how those women’s families agreed to that.
It’s not for the families to agree…is for the individual woman to agree.
totally AGREE!!!!!!
I was agreeing with Obara Meji, not the concept of holding spiritual male or female energy
Well of course you would not get it Nyaha, their is all about sex and weird unconventional sex, nothing to do with production so that the world can go on. How can we support same sex union? and believe it is correct? Abomination!!
This is a trick of the mind, a psychological imbalance, while I do not condemn an individual for his sexual practice, I should not be bullied to ACCEPT IT!!
It should not be taught in school, and I should not have to witness it publicly!
It is the NEW NORMAL, why? lol omas se oooo!
I wanted to understand if there qas a “spiritual behind the scenes” explanation for homosexuality. I read sosomething that said mrs. Cannon explained that to get the full experience as a part of our development and growth, we have incarnated multiple times as men and women, but(not certain if it’s a glitch of some sorts) some people come back one too many times as either sex. So you have that female energy in a male body and vice versa, mi nuh know if that mek sense to unoo
Not in my cabinet….
Which cabinet? The breakfront or the whatnot? lol
Cami, the wife stays with the husband. The husband usually stays in the same area as his or her family.
Obara Meji, I am feeling that. I don’t understand homosexuality at all. I don’t get its logic, I don’t get how it helps or aids the family. It does not make sense to me. Polgyyny, I get that, I am not in a polygynous marriage but I do understand it.
So Nyaha in the kikuyu marriage the males don’t live and interact with the wives and children at all because they are just considered “sperm donors”?
Nunu, in Kikuyu traditional culture someone (woman or man) can have sex with other people other than your spouse. There are many reasons why this took place (this is in old times, not present time). That being said, sex and marriage and procreation “look” differently than in other cultures. When a woman gets pregnant the father is her husband FULLSTOP lol. It doesn’t matter who the biological father is, the husband IS the father. Again, husband would be a man or woman. It can get complicated to understand because our culture does not follow european terms etc. So I am… Read more »
Ok, thanks Ny’.
Yw, yes your are correct that poly and this side of the globe won’t work out too well. Look at the ones in Idaho? But then again, that jeffs klan I wouldn’t even equate their life style to poly but rather sexual deviance to the highest degree.
I cannot understand nor will ever really bother to understand at this point how people rally for the legitimization of homosexuality, and will fight against conventional poly.. I guess once homosexuality is legitimize all around then the homosexuals will get poly legal in their favor too!
in Africa the wife enters her husbands house.
The same in some Asian culture.
Good one Cami @ the nuns/ Jesus reference!
Nyaha, this is life and also why these discussions are necessary!
I have learned that everyone is at where they ought to be in life.
Some people cannot fathom anothers lifestyle culture.
Some may say Obara Meji how is it you understand Polygyny and you do not accept Homosexuality? good question
One mek sense and de odda does not, it is that simple for me, and to hell with what they think of my answer!
i will take 50 wives pon top of spread than one man inna me bed wid me man! lolol…serious as rain though!
The wives of the same husband, to my understanding (observing it) refer to each more like sisters or friends (they call each other mama of the first child, which is common all over Kenya). They do refer to their husband as “our husband”. Oh yes! The mother in law and other family members will refer to the wife as “our wife”. Because when you get married you marry the whole family not one person. The mother in law does play a special role in regards to the wife. She is the one who teaches the wife how to cook special… Read more »
In this is it the wife who lives with the man family, or the man with the wife family?
While I agree with you Cami, in some instance things do not affect everyone the same way. Psychology is apart of our daily lives, because everything has an effect on the psyche of every human being and our ability to deal/process/cope/understand and the outcome it will have on society, present or future.
Often times I really have to break out the lynch paragraphs…cause
one of the biggest poly group is those thousands of Nuns married to Jesus christ…lol
Grung…I know two of those said nuns that divorced Jesus and married mortal men and had children…
TY! me drop a dutty and git up back! lolol….dem wanted a “love i can feel”…lolollllllllll
Me de a work and a peep..
Obara Meji, I HATE how people take something they know nothing about and turn into something that can push their agenda.
Well in Yoruba land it is the same thing, a wife will address her sister wife as MY WIFE, or the family members will address a wife or any of the other wives the same
My wife!
Or a mother in law will bring home a woman and tell the on I MARRY HER SO THIS IS YOUR WIFE NOW!
iS is the same in that tribe Nyaha?
Co-wife and Co-husband
It is NOT African in anyway! Homosexuality I mean.
Let me clarify something, Kikuyu are a group of people, our marriage system is complicated. Kikuyu marriage is NOT about women marrying women, it has to do with a husband marrying a wife and the families involved.
Is it the same as that of the Dobe Ju/hosanis?
who are the Dobe Ju/hosanis?
They hail from Botswana and Namibia. I was introduce to them and the !kung San when I studied Anthropology. It’s from their perspectives that I’m in agreement with Poly.
Yes Nyah tell us more about the Kikuyu, it is fascinating, and of course Lesbians would want to turn it into something nasty and corrupted
Nyah, please teach!!
Ponder this: We reversed nature by burning and pulling a civilized nigger apart and bullwhipping the other to the point of death, all in her presence. By her being left alone, unprotected, with the MALE IMAGE DESTROYED, the ordeal caused her to move from her psychologically dependent state to a frozen, independent state. In this frozen, psychological state of independence, she will raise her MALE and female offspring in reversed roles. For FEAR of the young male’s life, she will psychologically train him to be MENTALLY WEAK and DEPENDENT, but PHYSICALLY STRONG. Because she has become psychologically independent, she will… Read more »
A which “manifesto” dat come from Cami? This “we” agenda deh get pon top a mi nerves
Wow! That is so deep. Not to stray from the topic to much, but I was watching Iyala I think that is how you spell her name. Anyway, she was saying black men and( not all) just the ones get woman pregnant and leave…..there is more but don’t want to make a long post. To make a long story short mother’s ended up treating their sons bad, because the bd filled up bm with lies and left them with a kids to raise on their own. One more thing not in African culture, but in Western culture they said that… Read more »
Thank you for clearing that up for me Nyaha, because I know Homosexuality is NOT THE AFRICAN WAY, it is there but is not accepted and not as common. It is even embarrassing for me (an African to acknowledge that such act is in Africa nowadays)
lolol…funny how many will embrace homosexuality and condemn polygamy.
Late to the party but reading tru….very good point Cami…
Lynch??, lol Cami, diverse of opinions, I love it, Charles where are you??
The situation in Kenya is varied, like all marriages. In the cities, in middle and upper classes polgyamy is not that common. Meaning where one man is married is married to several women. It is not that rare for one man to be married and have several mistresses though. In the rural areas it is a little bit more common. Christianity has changed the traditional dynamics of marriage and marriages. So now its a complicated institution. In my family, my maternal grandfather had three wives. He was a deacon so he “divorced” two BUT traditionally he did not “divorce” them… Read more »
Wow Nyaha, I’ve never heard of the ‘kikuyu marriage’ that is one to wrap my head around.
I have NuNu and it’s how nyaha explains it…it is void of sex. Again, sex isn’t the basis or poly, same as it isn’t the bases for mono. Economics is what it is.
First off God bless that brother that can deal with more than one female emotions at the same time,lol
I don’t see anything wrong with it, if they can make it work then go for it
Toy, that is me. Unfortunately, de last man yah did si sey that is how I am and he took advantage of it. I did all and everything, and the straw that broke the camels back was when I found out that when he get money, he did not say anything to me.
After a while it became too much, he obviously was a user and did not deserve me!
I am glad he is out of your life, and you have good man now. Thank you always sharing your life with us, because you don’t have to be so candid, and you always are.
When I am in Africa, women ask me for my family members so that they could marry their husbands, lol
Cami mi like yuh reasoning uppa top bout the ‘possessiveness’ I agree with you
Charles how does Igbos do this, pray tell!
True talk Yw, I am Jamaican and approach Polygyny the same way like how Jamaicans think, but now I can respect it. It still is not for me, but I am friends with many wives in situations like this.
Nyaha how is this situation done in Kenya?
Hey Nyaha!
Mth, that is our culture and we are conditioned to think like that, but that does not make it correct. In Poly relationships all wives children belong to each other and they must take care of all the children.
What is wonderful about Africa is when there is injustice the family on both sides steps in and meetings are kept, if the family cannot solve the problem, the community elders steps in. I love Africa!
MTH don’t be suprised, it might work in Jamaica. For instance the spouses can “compete” with the spouses of another family. So its not about the children of one family but that one family competing against other children. LOL
Hello Nyaha1…long time. Welcome.
poly is in full operation in Jamaica and all around the world. All needed is to move in all the baby mothers/fathers under one roof.
good afternoon good people. interesting topic… just read all the articles and comments…
Big up heverybody. I think poly wouldnt work too well in Jamaica. My shallow reasoning, is that as a people, we are very competitive. So the children that my hussy has wid Lulu (Toy mi a teef yu matey name) must not do better than my children. So the competition is ramped up,whose children cuter, wear better clothes, do better in school. I can swear on all things that I hold dear tome, that I heard a girl saying she givesher kids x-amount of lunch money, because her ex-gave his son y amount and her children have to do better… Read more »
Mth yes we can use LuLu. Lmao lmao
Morning MTH, dwln…”Shallow” thanks for the use of that word, lol. So far, in this topic on polyandrous unions I see the use of the word:
Possessive
Greedy
Petty
Shallow.
Nice conversation. Me go bathe so if and when onu ready to lynch me I’ll be well groomed, lol
Toy, in Africa there is insurmountable wisdom, and the man is seen as head of house hold but women are seen as teachers and wisdom keepers. The woman is seen as submissive by society and it may very well be in certain cases, although not in all cases. Often times the women rule but behind the scenes as does the REAL bosses. I have no problem in being the WOMAN men are supposed to be strong. I am a pillar of strength and as such my men have to be A STRONG MAN, but I rule all the way, even… Read more »
Obara what you say? You the ruler all when he don’t know it, lol. Love it. Obara, we know you like your men ruff neck with some tenderness, lol no… but seriously though Obara you can’t nothing less than strong everything you have been through, but I love the fact even if your man is down you still make him feel like a king. We need more woman like that.
Good afternoon folks! Juss A quick yail up before I read
Hey NuNu.
Hey Nunu
Hmmm….this is my confession: I am a hopeless romantic. Please, do not laugh…NO mi is serious, DOAN LAUGH!! Questions: What is love? Can the depths of love be attained when involved with multiple people? Can true love only be achieved when focused on a single person? Think of this – when we interact with multiple people (even in a discussion) our attention is divided. Yes, one may hold more or most of our attention but there is still a portion set aside for each of the others… The multiple partner idea may have to do with stability but not love… Read more »
Yw great questions. I do think you can love multiple people, but for different reasons. I don’t think one person( even though you can find it) will have the elements that we want.
Go dey Toy…some people can love one and some multiple.
Same suh Toy, agreed Yw, she wanted to stir problem
I don’t know about having different wives. I wouldn’t not be happy to share nights with wife 2,3 and 4 if my husband is going to allow me to have a boyfriend when he is with Lulu on Thursday. I will be ok with it.
Morning Obara and Es fam bam. Cami, want to apologize for not being able to come to the discussion last night. It look likes you all had it on lock last night. Going to read
No problem Toy because you usually on in the early hours. Hope you having a great day ((hugs))
I hope you have a great day to Cam! ((((Hugs))))))
Ok….This is a…tricky one….Polygyny & Polygamy: I believe in fairness, therefore, if there is honesty and openness, then I can see no fundamental wrong in that idea. To my mind, there is an underlying issue of power,though, depending on the type of society i.e. matriarchal vs. patriarchal.
Adding children to the mix is a complication to me because, for me, each child (even if within the same relationship) requires a certain amount of attention. The more children, the less time there is to spread between them, worse if one need “special” attention.
Yw, everything you have said. I agree with you 100%. Morning!
Morning Toy (not to be played with, though, heehee).
Yw, lol
I’m not caught up in the who want to rule the roost bickering or buddy ruler…because that is all I see in counteraction arguments. Me, ME, ME, I, I, I.
The same way I respect TRADITION, I’m going to embrace something else of the ancestors. Agree to disagree…but this is beyond who a “ride”, relationships go beyond sex. If some of these Western communities had poly relationships we may see less youths in prison.
Cami I don’t disagree with it, because what it comes down to is communication and respect. I do feel the door should be open for me to be able to have a relationship with someone. I feel that is selfish the man can have different woman. He should be ok with his wife to a boyfriend. Cami you are passionate about this topic today…. Still my boo.
We may see less youths in prison if the men were to move towards being fathers rather than sperm donors. Over time, many “men” have looked at children as the woman’s problem. If that is what you are talking about, then polygamy would not affect that. It is different outside of western society because there is a sense and idea of community. As Obara said in the post: “The interest of everyone is a community affair. If there is a problem elders of the family or of tradition or community leaders or heads are called in for a meeting to… Read more »
lol, Yw/Toy see which one are prison bound? The same ones whose fathers fling sperm all over the place, hence my reasoning that if poly was legal that man would be compel to take on ALL is responsibilities under one household.
Cami, I think I have to agree to disagree here. Western polygamy would not be the same as traditional polygamy because you are dealing with a difference in mindset and culture. The best way I could say it is to compare european slavery and slavery between tribes. Two different beasts….Think of FLDS and the cults in the US.
Yes Nyha understood and I love it it shows the woman in her realest and fullest potential as Life and strength itself As a attest of fact you have just described me and my role in ally relationships In Nigeria while the woman is respected and loved and cared for it the the man who is the ruling factor I have changes that dynamic in my own marriage in some ways my husband has two chieftaincy titles and is respected by all and I listen when he speaks but he does not do anything without my consent or knowledge the… Read more »
Teach, what your husband’s baby madda (naah call har nuh wife) did, calling and hanging up, isnt that disrespectful and as a result if you had ‘rail-up’ on her, you wouldnt be wrong (although 2 wrongs do not make a right). I dont like when people dont stay in their lanes. What a way she well like your voice fi a heng up and a call back 10 times. A she sey obsessed.
Teach, IF you decided that you both wanted other partners, could your husband have this, since he is a King?
If I wasn’t there in the picture he could do as he wish but while I am there, no
Morning everyone. Interesting topic. The closest I have come to seeing anything like this is ‘My Five Wives’ on TLC. I have never watched an entire episode, but I know right away, I dont like the man’s attitude.
I personally dont know if I could deal with polygamy, however, the idea of 2 husbands really does appeal to me. LOL. I believe that after a few years with one person, inspite of how much you love that person, you may want to get to ‘know’ someone else, whether for physical or emotional affection.
Mek mi look good….Is you dat MTH. Mi feel like mi nuh si yuh in a while now. Large up yuself!!
Mth how are you and the mth girls doing? How is daddy Mth coming on? I do believe people’s do want to feel excitement over time, doesn’t mean you don’t love the person you are with just want something new. To make a long story short. I agree.
AMH, I too am possessive, but not only of men, If I have a friend my friend is exclusive to me and so on, its just my nature, I am royal and what is mine is mine. My man should be exclusive to me, but when I am in Africa and I see Polygyny, I understand it, but I somehow feel sorry for the women. I think first wife has it the worst. She cannot go anywhere, and often he younger (not necessarily in age) gets the love and holds the mans interest. Whenever I tell people that I am… Read more »
I am so with my friends and children too. I think I would feel for the first ones too.
Get dem obara get dem. I’m not settling I deserve the best! I am with obara I don’t feel like it jealousy or possessiveness at all but a commitment. If I enter into a committed relationship with you we have set the perimeters of said relationship and agreed then that should be how we move forward. I grew up with a father who was very blunt and he doesn’t believe in fantasy. He taught us early that in relationships people do what they want to do you can’t control someone else do jealousy makes no sense but I demand my… Read more »
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AMH, what’s up love?
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Cami you so petty lol I love you too ! All u had to say was I missed me honey..I misses u to. I been on nights for the last two weeks and I sleep during the day. If it my cultural norm then I think it could work but I know a man with three wives in the Bahamas and it’s rife with problems. The second wife has said on occasion she is to selfish for it. If you grow up around it you are more understanding but I grow up with 2 parents and I want my own… Read more »
Cami, I love my husband and he is an very attractive man, black and cool, smell good, no bell pepper nose, or boxing gloves in the middle of his face, Osun did well for me in giving me my choice
See obara that’s it right there baby mamas and women who can’t move on. You did the right thing I woulda say don’t do it bitch and don’t be calling and hanging up! Talk up! Lol
The other day we were going to a party, we stopped at my hubby’s very good friends house, he has two wives, I saw that the wives were not dressed, so I asked the first one if they were not coming, she said, no our husbands don’t allow us to go. I don’t know but the way how she said it, made me feel sad for them, but yet whenever we go to their compound the two women are always talking, combing each others hair, one sweeping the other holding the garbage bag for her to put the garbage in,… Read more »
Me nosey, so hubby maybe able to explain that comment “our husbands don’t allow us to go.”
Yet, that isn’t a poly issue because millions of mono’s are restrictive (oppressive) same way, lol
The article makes a lot of sense, how the benefits could spread through many tributaries. I have always been possessive so I am not sure that I could agree to it however if I saw the benefits stretching to so many others my sense of greater good might kick in. It does seem, to me, though that it could be a slippery slope if allowed in many cultures, people are too greedy.
Morning AMH, you have used two words that I see to be great ills of mankind. They are Possessive and greedy; I also notice that women think it’s an honor to wear this “badge” of possessiveness when it comes to their men and household…I know for a fact that those are the relationships that are doomed to sink overtime. A man’s mate isn’t his mother or sister, but simply the woman that he wants has a best friend, sex being a bonus and children being a sign of pride. So to be possessive is signs of forcing what isn’t true.… Read more »
I know that my possessiveness comes from my own jealousy and insecurity it is something I battle with. I know I will be able to say “No human can make me feel inferior” someday like you.
The greed I think is apparent and blaring when you walk out your door most days. It saddens me that we must look so hard for caring people who think of other,s not even necessarily before themselves, but think of others At ALL!
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Well I live half the year in Africa, and I see this in my face all the time, and I must tell you that these men, there are the exception like Alhajji, but these men treat their wives with love and care, and the women seem to get along. Most often the wives live on the same compound, if this happens the husband is looked at as strong. If the women cannot get along, then the other woman or women have their own apartment. The first wife, after a while however gets lost along the way, but she does not… Read more »
You see the bonus of you having your gift! it’s living and interacting with the people in Africa…the land of all man’s origins.
Here, as outsiders only read or hear things (things never pass down in truth)….you live it, Obara. I’m glad that I’m inquisitive like Sherlock Holmes, lol.
I don’t pretty up my theories so here: If poly relationships were legal I think it would be beneficial to blacks. I believe in strength in numbers. I notice that people dislike the practice because they think of sexual activities and that one would feel lesser as a woman because of the other. No human can make me feel inferior. So those two reasons aren’t reason enough for me to discard this practice that is older than the Christian religion that came about and cite poly as EVIL and IMMORAL. I didn’t absorb Christianity, therefore I think my worldviews are… Read more »
Good morning farm
I don’t know bout this one. I mean ya sharing most of the time anyway but this is a lot to undertake and contend with. The economic roles have changed so much and women are doing it for themselves. This kind of relationship is a breeding ground for problems. Even though everything is laid out we are dealing with human emotions. I am not that evolved
Morning Courtney, long time no see you..”come mek me shake your hand”, lol
Where did you get the idea that it’s “a breeding ground for problems”, because for all the academic research that I did there are no problems. The problems are in the ones that are forced or ones where the men do not adhere to wives and go road and carry in STDs…which they do in monogamous relationships all the time.
It early…so I’ll be back