Obviously, polygamy isn't for everyone — personally, I find picking up after just one lazy partner time-consuming enough, let alone four others! And trying to decide who gets to watch their team's football game on the big screen? I'm exhausted just thinking about it.
But just because I have too delicate a constitution for it doesn't mean everyone feels that way — for some people it works, like the Brown family from TLC's Sister Wives!
Well, it works for some of them.
The show, which has run since 2010, follows polygamist Kody Brown and his four wives — Meri, Janelle, Christine, and Robyn — as they raise their 18 children and navigate their very unique home life.
I don't envy them on laundry day!
Their legal marriage was ended when Kody legally married his newest wife, Robyn, in 2010 as a way to adopt her children from a previous marriage.
In November last year, Meri made headlines when rumors began that she may have split from Kody, due to him not appearing in her Instagram pictures for over a year and the fact that she seemed to no longer be wearing her wedding ring.
"Let's just clarify something here. I love this man," she wrote, alongside a photo with Kody. "I don't owe anyone an explanation but I'll do it anyway.
"I'm well aware that we, as a family, have chosen to put ourselves 'out there', which, in turn, brings about all kinds of speculation, commentary, and opinions. But it comes down to this. My relationship with him is MY relationship with him."
"We ended up going back to Las Vegas to see our therapist, Nancy, and just kind of like, work through our relationship," Meri revealed.
"We're family, but we're not acting married," Kody told their therapist in a flashback sequence.
Meri added, "the relationship between he and I is gone — it's dead, it's over."
"You know, I could buck up ... be tough about it, but I'm not interested in it," he added.
Now, everyone's relationship is different, but I think if my husband said that about me on television, I'd have some pretty strong words for him!
Of course, maybe that's why I only have one husband.
"I haven't put relationship effort into that relationship specifically because I have three other relationships that are rewarding and wholesome and with children that need me, need to see me," he said.
Meri said she was "really careful about pushing Kody because I don't want him to feel like I'm being demanding or pushy or anything like that."
Kody's third wife, Christine, opened up during the season 10 premiere about the struggles she's facing in their relationship since the family moved to separate homes rather than sharing one large household.
"But what I didn't expect was to feel isolated and feel separate," Christine added. "It feels lonely."
Christine explained that this feeling wasn't helped by the fact that Kody is often disengaged from her and on his phone.
"I still get super, super, super jealous and I'm really, really, really sorry," Christine said, adding, "it makes getting together hard — really, really hard."
"I thought I'd be stronger on my own, but I'm not. And it's really hard to just feel like I can contribute anything," she added.
What do you make of this drama? Do you think you could ever be in a polygamist marriage? Let us know in the comments below!
h/t: People
