I have to admit that watching the show “Sister Wives” on TLC made me think about what it would be like to have so-called wives in my family. To tell the truth, it doesn’t seem like such a terrible idea. If you think about it, the only bad part are too many children by all those women, assuming that all the women are going to want to procreate… And of course the other is that the women are not allowed to have other men.
I really think that besides those two things, it wouldn’t be such a bad life. Think about it, there are two or three other women to clean, cook, take care of all the kids, not to mention give you a break from sex, or having to see the husband on those days where you just feel like being alone. One sister wife is regularly cooking for everyone, the other has all the kids ready for school with homework finished, the third is doing everyone’s laundry, so you would only have to chauffeur the kids to and from school or run to the grocery store. Not bad, not bad at all!
However, I can only imagine the terror that comes over the household when all the sister wives get their monthly visitor, which obviously they will get at the same time, having synced their periods by living together. Can you just imagine that? The poor husband having to tiptoe for days around them, scared that one or all of them bite his head off for calling out the wrong name, or leaving the toilet seat up. I know most of people out there are going crazy over this show and their Polygamist lifestyle, but if you ask me, I think the sister wives are the ones in control, and not the husband! Sure he gets to sleep with a different woman every other night, but do you think its easy to remember which one likes what during sex? What about their names? I get my kid’s names confused on a regular basis, can you imagine remembering three or four, on top of all the children’s names? That can NOT be easy…
If the sister wives were allowed to have other husbands, I might consider signing up for that lifestyle. But then again… I don’t know that I’d want all that pressure of having to bring my A-game every single time, with every single husband, every single night. Ugh, just thinking about it, is making me exhausted. Maybe sticking with one husband and a bunch of sister wives is much more appealing… Right on Sister Wives, you are smarter than all of us!
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