A polygamist relationship is when you are married to more than one person. In Greek polygamy is the act of being married to more than one. So you can either be a woman married to many men or vice-versa. The opposite of polygamy, being married to more than one, is monogamy, being married to only one spouse. Another form of polygamy is where there might be two spouses but they don’t know about each other. This is called bigamy, and is prosecuted as a crime in most western countries like the UK.

First off I need to say that polygamy should not be judged, since it can bring happiness, if everyone wants to do it than it’s no different than a normal marriage. Some say that the children of a polygamist family will be bullied, like in a gay marriage, or something else. But I think that is bull because the ones making people think that way are the ones putting them on a pedestal. Anything that doesn’t directly or indirectly harm anyone or themselves physically or mentally should be allowed, period.

In humanity there are always “exceptions” to the rule, in this case some may not be happy with just one partner. For the general population though I would say that the cons outweigh the pros, but it still might be worth it. I’ll list a few cons and pros, depending on if everyone in the relationship works or one person is supporting the family it might become more expensive than being married to just one. But then again you can get more times the love, affection; you might even feel more secure and so on. If you do something wrong you will be on the receiving end of a lot more anger.

There are many reasons to start a polygaous relationship, but the most obvious would be for love, but I’m guessing most people would say religion. But then the question for them is why it even appeared in your religion if there wasn’t some sort of lust for it. In English we saw an episode of a show called “Big Love” and in there was a man married to three wives, and the wives mightnot have been the of best friends but it still seemed pretty okay. Imagine if they all got along perfectly, wouldn’t that be the world’s best relationship ever? They all have your back and you always have someone to turn to when you feel down since there are so many in the family.

Personally I don’t see the point in sharing a wife or having many wives. A relationship for me is to shower the person you adore with affection and having to do that to many wives would feel halfhearted to me and sharing a wife wouldn’t suit me, I wouldn’t feel special. But everyone has a different opinion about things and I’m sure there are people out there who genuinely want to have many wives to show them they love them or maybe want to share a wife because they're lazy and dont want to have to do all the jobs.

So my final words about this subject is that if it’s genuine love it should be allowed but if it’s forced because their religion pushes it,it should be banned.

/max

source: da intraweb & I