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90 Day Fianc: Before the 90 Days Season 5 star, Usman Sojaboy Umar broke up with his ex-wife, Baby Girl Lisa Hamme due to arguments regarding his culture and religion, especially the subject of polygamy. Usman, a practicing Muslim, expressed his interest in having multiple wives. Is his new love interest on board? It appears that 50-year-old San Diego native, Kim, is considering the idea of polygamy. Heres what we know so far.

During season 4 of 90 Day Fianc: Before the 90 Days, Usman made it clear to his then-wife, Lisa, that he wanted to add wives in the future. Even though polygamy is normal and accepted within Usmans culture and religion, Lisa was adamantly against the idea of him adding more wives.

In fact, just Usman talking to his female fans was enough for Baby Girl Lisa to be upset with him. By the time the tell-all rolled around, Lisa and Usman were already talking about divorce. Usman believed that Lisa never respected his culture and his religion, which was part of the reason the two decided to go their own ways.

On the premiere episode of 90 Day Fianc: Before the 90 Days, Kim met with her friends to discuss her upcoming trip to Tanzania, where she will meet Usman for the first time. She said, I would allow him to marry a second wife and have kids. She tells the cameras, I dont want anymore kids, does Usman want kids? Absolutely. If Usman has multiple wives I feel like its ok. I love him. Its his culture and I respect his culture and his religion so much. I truly mean that.

She explained to her friends that she would be OK with Usman having multiple wives. Kim said, I know it sounds crazy, its a cultural thing, its not like a threesome. She insiste the idead of polygamy didnt bother her. However, Kims friends arent convinced that Kim knows what shes be getting herslef into.

In Before the 90 Days Season 5, Usman invits his new potential girlfriend, shooting his recent music video. This is also where they will meet for the first time. In the clip for Before the 90 Days Season 5, Kim is frustrated with Usmans lack of energy on set. She says, Usman, get your energy up. Usman tells the camera, I dont really know what comes over Kimberly, but I will not stand for it.

In the next clip, Kim and Usman are in bed together for what appears to be a romantic moment. But depite the lingerie and champagne, Usman rejects Kims sexual advances. She asks him why he doesnt want to get intimate with her. In the awkward clip, Usman gets up from the bed and leaves.

Many 90 Day Fianc fans are convinced that Kim is playing along with Usman wanting to have other wives right now, but when things get more serious she will change her mind. Fans can watch more of Kim and Usmans journey on 90 Day Fianc: Before the 90 Days Season 4 airing Sundays on TLC and discovery+.

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The world has changed a lot in the past year, and finding open relationships online is still a popular trend as industries recover. 3joy, a threesome dating app for polygamists, has seen a huge increase in registration.

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New York, NY (ReleaseWire) 12/14/2021 So far, there have been more than 265.8 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 globally, according to Johns Hopkins University. The impact of the pandemic has been tremendous, especially for finding open relationships online. Justin Robert, the founder of the 3joy the best threesome hookup & swinger dating app, explained that since January 2019, 3joy has seen an unprecedented number of users downloads. The number of dates and matches also leaped by nearly 200 percent. As the number of people using 3joy upsurges, the time spent using 3joy increased by nearly 30%. It is distinct that during the pandemic, the feeling of loneliness is so pervasive and intense due to lockdown in various countries and regions that more people want to express their emotional needs in a certain way to achieve some kind of interpersonal equilibrium. Accordingly, using online dating apps to find an open relationship is the perfect outlet.

Before the outbreak, most people were ashamed to sign up for an online dating app to find open relationships, but after the outbreak, under the circumstance of having no options, many people who were previously afraid to use dating apps have to sign up for online hookup apps to make connections with strangers during the lockdown. Simultaneously, with the ubiquitous use of online dating apps, people gradually reduce the shame of online dating apps looking for an open relationship, and more and more people have a more neutral attitude and right cognition of open relationships.

What most people think of swinger and threesome is ignominious and very few people are polygamous or even willing to be. In reality, on the basis of surveys in the United States, between 4 and 5 percent of the population is polygamous, and in addition to that, 20 percent of American adults have been polygamous at some point in their lives. That's almost 70 million people. That is to say, polygamy is grossly underrated on a global scale. By all appearances, polygamy has become a group that cannot be neglected.

According to 3joy, which currently has 1.6 million users registered, only 10 percent of its category. It has become a popular trend to use threesome dating apps to find polygamous partners. As the pandemic continues, 40 percent of users said they would continue to engage in virtual threesome dating even if there were no more lockdowns or public places largely began to reopen. Because most people who are polygamous already benefit from online threesome dating. Likewise, the widespread use of threesome apps during the pandemic has reduced the stigma associated with registering these threesome apps.

In nearly two years, the way people live and form relationships have changed a lot. The rapid growth of online dating apps during the pandemic is also due to people using threesome dating apps being conscious of the value and convenience of finding an open relationship online.

About 3joy3joy is a swinger and non-monogamy dating app that offers like-minded singles and couples who are eager to desire an inclusive threesome hookup platform to explore an adventurous relationship.

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Colorado City is on the Utah-Arizona border.

Colorado City, Arizona, and Hilldale, Utah, are two towns that border each other in the high deserts of northern Arizona and southern Utah. The area, known as Short Creek, was settled by members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints a breakaway sect of the broader LDS Church that continued to practice polygamy after the church banned it.

The community was rife with underaged girls being married to older men. Young men, dubbed the lost boys," were kicked from their homes and shunned from the community so church leaders wouldnt have to compete for young brides. And their leader, Warren Jeffs, created a local government where the church ran the schools, the police and even the banks.

In 2006, Jeffs was arrested and sentenced to life in prison for his role in sexually abusing young girls he claimed were his wives. Since then, the community has become divided between those who remain loyal to Jeffs and those who have not.

Producer Glenn Meehan began visiting the community of Short Creek a decade ago, initially with the aim of making a documentary about the lost boys. But, that changed as he and director Don Argott watched the community change.

The result is the new documentary, Keep Sweet, which is streaming now on Discovery+. The Show spoke with Meehan to learn about the film and where the title Keep Sweet came from.

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While Raeesah Khan had resigned from the Workers' Party (WP) on Nov 30, she was already contemplating doing so in August, according to WP vice-chair Faisal Manap.

This revelation was made in Faisal's testimony to Parliament's Committee of Privileges that was released on Saturday (Dec 11).

Describing Khan's "mental state" before the Aug 8 meeting, where she first confessed to party leaders about lying in Parliament, Faisal said in his testimony on Thursday: "She did mention to us (WP chief Pritam Singh, chairSylvia Lim and Faisal) that she was contemplating to resign as an MP.

"She felt she was a liability to the party because of the speech about FGC (female genital cutting) and polygamy."

On Aug 3, WP tabled a motion on empowering women. Khan, then an MP at Sengkang GRC, delivered a speech to Parliament which focused on four main areas: sexual violence, FGC, polygamy and the tudung.

It was during the same speech that Khan claimed that she accompanied a victim of sexual assault to a police station andalso alleged that the police mishandled the case.

That proved to be a lie when on Nov 1, Khan admitted to Parliament that she "was not present" at the police station as she had earlier claimed.

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But according to the Committee of Privileges' report, Faisal said that when he attended the Aug 8 meeting, he was under the impression that the discussion would primarily be about the FGC and polygamy issue.

The report added that Faisal, along with Singh and Lim, were "taken aback"by what Khan shared, revealing tothem she was sexually assaulted in Australia as an 18-year-old student.

But they held no anger against her for lying.

Contrasting with what Khan had told the committee, Faisal said that Singh did not indicate then that she should admit her lie to the Committee of Privileges.

The report also noted that Faisal told Khan to put out a Facebook statement later that day about her speech on FGC and polygamy, which had caused unhappiness among the Muslim community.

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Two months before I married, I had my first period. I still wore a training bra. I was 12 and had never kissed a boy, never fathomed marriage. Repeat after me: I, Habiba, take you, Ali, to be my husband for the duration of 90 days, Ali*, my new husband, said.

Within seconds, I was married. In an Islamic Temporary Marriage, the marriage isnt nulled with a divorce, but rather a specific period is set in our case, 90 days. No witnesses are needed, and unlike traditional Islamic marriages, the man doesnt need to support the woman. But if the girl or woman gets pregnant, the baby isnt considered illegitimate.

After my parents divorced when I was five, I spent the school year in Tucson, Arizona with my Jewish mother, and summers and holidays with my Muslim father in a cult in Texas. The cult leader didnt live with the members but lived an hour away on a hill with his three wives and multiple children. Polygamy is allowable in Islam, and a man can marry up to four wives.

The summer after I completed seventh grade, I flew to my dads as normal but this was to be a different summer to all the others. The leader asked my father if I could live with him at his residence to help care for his four young children. No other person had been asked, so my father quickly agreed, thinking it was a wonderful opportunity for me to be close to the leader.

On the first night, the leaders adopted son Ali snuck into my room and violated me. By the third night, he feared he was behaving un-Islamically, so he married himself to me until the end of August when Id return to my mother in Tucson for eighth grade.

At 15, Ali was already worldly, having lived on three continents. His accent was erudite, tinged with British English. I still played with Barbies.

Although my parents loved me, they were preoccupied with their lives my mother with her boyfriends and career, and my father with his new family and religion. They rarely kissed or hugged me, and I was starved for attention and affection. Ali provided both.

My body began producing dopamine and oxytocin, and I attached quickly. Alis scent turned sweet, and I noticed his chest muscles. I began to feel safe in his embrace.

Ali continued to sneak into my room throughout the summer, and although a few people knew about our marriage, our union was mostly kept secret in the dark of night. Towards the end of the summer, Ali looked serious. Im moving to Pakistan.

I sobbed, How will I survive? Hed been successful in training me to need him.

When my father picked me up at the leaders house in August, I didnt tell him what happened, and when I returned to Tucson, I also didnt tell my mother. I was ashamed and confused. And besides, Ali thought it was a good idea I didnt discuss our relationship with anyone. He taught me he was my wakil, the person in charge of me, who I needed to listen to and follow.

I had spent 90 days disassociating, and after I returned to Tucson, I completely withdrew, desperately needing to protect my horrible secret. I lost interest in school, dropped my group of elementary school friends, and began wearing black head-to-toe.

My relationship with my mother also changed I stopped speaking to her except when necessary. I mostly stopped talking altogether, collapsing in on myself.

But my relationship with Ali continued through letters, arriving in Tucson in blue airmails with stamps in Urdu. My mother probably thought Ali was a boy I met in Texas; a boyfriend, perhaps. She couldve never guessed we were married.

Ali was a skilled writer, and with each letter, I not only fell more in love with him, but I also fell in love with words, the way they were carefully strewn on paper.

Twice, Ali flew to Texas from Karachi. By then, most everyone in my dads religious community knew about our marriage. By then, most of the girls my age and younger had been married off in forced arranged marriages to men much older. My situation didnt seem unusual in comparison.

At 16, I graduated from high school early and moved to Texas to live with my father full-time. Soon, I flew to OHare, where Ali now lived on the South Side of Chicago with his mother and grandparents. However, just as my life began to feel somewhat normal, the leader requested I fly to his new house in England to work for him, again caring for his children.

My relationship with Ali continued through letters, but now, I was the one sending blue airmails. Mine were stamped with Queen Elizabeth. Alis writing diminished as mine blossomed. For weeks, I didnt receive a response. Worried, Id write him, Everything okay?

Ali eventually also moved to England at the leaders request. When he arrived, I begged him, Please tell me whats wrong.

Finally, he responded, I married another woman.

No, I cried. Please divorce her.

I love you both.

We traveled to Spain, staying at the leaders villa. When Ali worked on the leaders yacht, I stayed home ironing his clothes, creating middle creases in his Bermudas, hiding love notes in his pockets. With each puff of steam, I prayed my adoration would seep through his skin, his bones, and into his heart. My obsession with ironing would solve the problem hed realize how much I loved him and divorce the other woman.

Ali didnt arrive at this aha moment. Instead, he temporarily married a topless girl he met on the white sandy beaches of Mallorca.

Several months later, I made the difficult decision to leave England. The night before I flew to Tucson, Ali pleaded, Please stay. Well make it work.

Hold on a minute, I said, walking back into the bedroom. I never imagined parting with what I treasured most. Here. I filled his arms with the letters hed written me. I dont need these anymore. Each envelope had been opened and reopened, emblazoned with my fingerprints.

In the end, I lost the leader, my community. I never got my forever marriage with Ali, but when I gave Ali back his words, I found my own. Soon after, I flew to Egypt and became fluent in Arabic. As a solo woman traveler, I backpacked the Middle East.

Fortunately, I never became pregnant with Ali, and a couple of years after returning to America, I married a man I met at university. We had two sons. I studied languages, completed a Ph.D. in linguistics, and studied creative writing at Columbia University. I ripped apart grammar, analyzed words. I combed through research on cults, child marriage the role language played in my life to control and manipulate.

Love and healing zigzag, squiggle. Throughout the years, Ali randomly contacted me. I love you, hed confess. When I was 42 and newly divorced, he sent me a Facebook message: Come to South Africa. I was heartbroken over the end of my 17-year marriage and still heartbroken over him. I immediately flew to Johannesburg, where he was living.

Ali was married with three children. I learned he also had temporary wives in Indonesia, America, and England. The offer was still on the table: I could marry him and be one of many wives. In the cult, I witnessed womens and childrens lives torn apart because of polygamy. During the trip, I confirmed to myself that I cannot share him or any man.

I left South Africa early and bought a ticket to Australia, where I again backpacked alone.

Now, single, on the cusp of 50, Im an empty nester of two amazing sons, ages 24 and 25. Both of my parents are still alive, thank G-d, and as I did as a child, I continue to balance their polar opposite lifestyle. My father is still a religious zealot. My mother is still a Jewish 1960s liberal feminist.

I dont speak to my parents or anyone much about my trauma I reserve that for my daily writing practice and therapy sessions. Through marriage, kids, and heartbreak, words have been my confidant, my education, and my savior.

In crafting sentences, I cohered my fragmented and juxtaposed identities. I dug myself out of a child marriage and clawed myself out of a cult, transitioning from servant to master of my own life. After a lifetime of men, Im happy to sip cappuccinos and watch Netflix cuddling with my pillow, alone. I found self-love, which is unconditional and everlasting.

Here, I am anchored. Whole. Bright. Sparkling stardust.

*Ali is a pseudonym

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As a human rights defender, I want to publicly and officially celebrate, and appreciate the U.S. Treasury for its stance in the fight against corruption in Liberia.

Politicians, who collect monies from the government and manipulate the political system, will be deterred. However, my attention has been drawn to the official statement from the U.S. Treasury justifying its reasons for the sanction against Senator Prince Yomie Johnson of Nimba County.

As a Senator, Johnson has been involved in pay-for-play funding with government ministries and organizations for personal enrichment. As part of the scheme, upon receiving funding from the Government of Liberia (GOL), the involved government ministries and organizations launder a portion of the funding for the return to the involved participants. The pay-for-play funding scheme involves millions of U.S. dollars. Johnson has also offered the sale of votes in multiple Liberian elections in exchange for money."

These are undisputed facts, because the senator is noted for doing exactly what the U.S. Treasury mentioned, but is he the only person that does that during general and presidential elections in Liberia? I say a resounding no! We must be completely honest and clear in taking action against those who have looted state resources and used them for their personal gains.

Since I am a rights activist, I will feel incredibly guilty celebrating the sanction of Senator Johnson, knowing he is not alone in this syndicate, yet the Treasury has not gone as far as to catch the true perpetrators of the political polygamy. In this regard, I would suggest that this sanction on Senator Johnson goes beyond political targets since the very statement mentions other ministers who facilitate the act. In Liberia, it is a crime to bribe, and it is a crime to receive a bribe. So, those who the U.S. Treasury unclaimed often provide money to Senator Johnson to carry on the operations should also be sanctioned to reflect a collective fight against corruption in Liberia.

The U.S. Treasury mentioned that as part of the scheme, some government ministries provide Senator Johnson funding to carry on said operations in return for votes. It is a mystery as to why the U.S. Treasury is not also considering sanctions against the heads of those ministries and agencies as a means of dissuading public officials from dishing out millions of dollars to individuals to rally the votes for them at the expense of the poor, and suffering Liberians. We encourage the U.S. Treasury to go beyond sanctioning legislators, and include ALL those involved in government, because corruption such as this does not only occur at the National Legislature.

Several sitting senators endorsed Joseph Nuyma Boakai's presidential bid in 2017, but it was not a free vote. Cabinet ministers who presided over the Unity Party government paid those 19 senators a large amount to campaign for their presidential candidate, Amb. Joseph Nyman Boakai. This also justifies the same reasons for sanctioning Senator Prince Johnson of Nimba County, but why are these people (cabinet ministers) not held accountable?

Also, I do not see any clear-cut penalties or restrictions involved in the sanction against Senator Johnson. The U.S. Treasury sanctioned Senator Varney Sherman in the past, ordered the freezing of his account and restricted his ability to obtain a visa to the United States, as well as requesting the public not to do business with his law firm, Sherman and Sherman Law Firm. That action has crippled him economically, and politically.

However, what are the specifics of Senator Johnson's sanction? That needs to be clarified, because it might look like a political ploy to prevent the senator from supporting the candidate of his choice during the 2023 general and presidential elections in an effort to create a level playing field in Nimba. It's a well-known fact that Sen. Johnson has contributed to Nimba County's election victories since 2005.

My role as a critical thinker and social activist would be enhanced if this action went beyond, and did not target someone inside the National Legislature, especially since corruption has been entrenched in the three branches of government for decades. Is there a political interests the U.S. wants in 2023, and they see Sen. Johnson as a threat to the ascendency of that individual, and that the only way to do so, is to give RED CARD to the political striker of Nimba, Sen. Johnson? This referee should give similar red cards to other players that committed the same infringement. It's obvious that Senator Johnson will decide who wins Nimba County come 2023.

Judging from his tricks, this sanction has increased his political base, because he now has reasons to cajole his people and indict individuals wanting to go for re-election in Nimba and those running for the presidency of being responsible for the sanction against him. The people of Nimba will fall for this, and I am sorry for those running for the presidency, and going for re-election. They will have more to explain to the people of Nimba on why they should give them their votes should Senator Johnson amplifies this.

Opposition leaders have also pledged supports to political interests during past elections and demanded huge sums of money to rally votes for them. No action has been taken in that regard. Corruption cannot be fought alone, since the opposition (broken ones), as well as those in the three branches of government, are always involved in this scheme. Without an inclusive punishment for those involved in this scheme, it will definitely undermine the collective fight against corruption in Liberia.

About the author: Vandalark Patricks is a graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School of Governance

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It is not every day that a UFC fighter outs himself as a polygamist.

During a recent interview with the Let Me Interrupt You YouTube channel, Zhalgas Zhumagulov revealed that he is currently married to two different women.

Yes, I have two wivestwo wives and six children, Zhumagulov said.

Polygamy is the practice of having more than one spouse at the same time. Polygyny is when a man is married to multiple wives at a time, and polyandry refers to when a woman is married to multiple husbands. Some societies tolerate or encourage the practice, while others have outlawed it. In some cases, religious views factor into the decision, with Roman Catholics condemning polygamy, while Islam allows men to take up to four concurrent wives.

In the United States, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Mormons practiced polygamy from 1847 to 1857. The U.S. government made polygamy illegal in response to the LDS Church, and it remains unlawful across all 50 states.

Though polygamy is technically illegal in Kazakhstan since the Soviet authorities banned it a century ago, the practice has been decriminalized since 1998 and is widely accepted among elites and powerful politicians. And while there are no official statistics on how widespread polygamy is in Kazakhstan, one unofficial poll suggested that nearly 40 percent of males were in favor of polygamy.

When asked whether it was difficult to live with two wives, the 33-year-old flyweight noted that he has gotten used to it.

In principle, its normal. At first there were challenges but now everything is fine.

After losing his first two UFC fights, Zhumagulov earned an elusive victory in June when he defeated fellow flyweight Jerome Rivera by submission in the opening round. Asked about the fight during the interview, Zhumagulov noted that he has a strategy when considering which of his wives to return to after the fight.

Well, where did I leave from? If I left, for example, from my second wife, I go to the first. If I left the first, I go to the second. A day here, a day there.

Zhumagulov was knocked out by Manel Kape over the weekend at UFC Vegas 44.

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This article was published on June 15, 1933. Read the story in the Macleans archive.

One hundred years ago, on Dec. 6, 1921, Agnes Macphail became the first woman elected to the House of Commons. This wry Macleans profile, written by Charles Vining under the pseudonym of R.T.L., gives a glimpse of how she was perceived a dozen years into her political career.

Miss Agnes Macphail was born in a log cabin, but has not yet become Prime Minister.

She spent the first fourteen years of her life on a farm in Grey County, Ontario, and looks back upon that period as being almost as bad as her last twelve years in Ottawa.

Her opinion of Parliament is that a great deal of trouble and expense could be eliminated by letting most of the Members stay at home and merely supply Ottawa with rubber stamps of their signatures.

She is a Latter Day Saint, a C. C. F., an inflationist, a free-trader, a central banker, an anti-militarist, and has often said so.

She would probably be a Liberal if the Liberal party were not so conservative.

She found it necessary to define her Latter Day Saintship when she first went to Ottawa because it had been rumored erroneously that she believed in polygamy. It is now well established that she is sceptical of matrimony even in its simplest form.

She disposes of past romances by declaring that no woman with any pep reaches the age of thirty without having had proposals of marriage.

She is forty-odd years old now, and doesnt care who knows it.

When she was nineteen she secured a position as school-teacher at Kinloss, Ontario. She has admitted that she used to dance all night whenever she got the chance, although she does not enlarge on this to Mr. Woodsworth.

After that she became ill for a year and moved out to a school in Alberta, where she acquired a supply of fresh air and new ideas.

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She brought these back east to another school at Sharon, a community not far from Toronto and chiefly inhabited at that time by political economists known as United Farmers of Ontario.

She completely recovered her health in this atmosphere, attracted attention by being rude to the Drayton Tariff Commission in 1920, and got her start in politics by writing a letter to the editor of the Farmers Sun, who has never completely recovered from the shock.

She won her first election in 1921 by a personal expenditure of $200 and a series of sharp remarks.

The election later proved to be expensive, however, as she felt obliged to return $6,000 of her Parliamentary indemnity during the next four years in order to keep a campaign promise.

She prides herself on always saying what she thinks, but occasionally has overlooked the importance of thinking what she says.

She barely squeezed through with a majority of 243 in the last election, but expects to have no trouble at all in the next one.

She describes the depression as a transition from one economic era to another, but has not yet disclosed how long the interval will last.

Among her major difficulties are keeping quiet, getting homesick, and having to listen to professional politicians.

She is suspicious of people who are nice to her, and dangerous to people who arent.

She says that C. C. F. means Come Comrades, Forward; which indicates that she had better let somebody else give the party its campaign slogan.

She would rather make an epigram than be right, and sometimes she has.

In her first few years of Parliament she was described by one of the more cultured members as an ignorant little schoolteacher, and by Mr. Hector Charlesworth as pert, shallow and misinformed.

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Since those days she has been Canadian delegate to the League of Nations and a member of the Leagues Disarmament Commission, and is now in danger of becoming a person of national importance.

She once said that Toronto has an odd mentalitya statement remarkable only for its extreme restraint.

Two of her early ambitions were to serve her constituents and to learn French, the latter being an aspiration once cherished by Senator Meighen, who now best understands the kind of French that Mr. Bennett speaks.

She has discovered that the House of Commons is one of the nicest clubs in the country, and that much of the business of government is conducted in the Chteau Laurier.

If she had her way she would abolish the Senate, except perhaps the Right Honorable George P. Graham.

She once danced with Mr. Henry Ford, at Dearborn, Michigan, and subsequently described him as being somewhat like Mr. Vincent Massey, a comparison which fails to make clear which gentleman, if either, she intended to compliment.

The family name is MacPhail but she spells it Macphail. which once led an undiscerning critic to suggest that it should be Macphailure.

She has never been afraid of anyone, and sometimes would rather like to be.

She has not yet learned that a politician should never write a letter dealing with any subject except the weather, but of course she is not a politician except at election time.

She believes that newspapers, except the Farmers Sun, are in some sort of capitalistic conspiracy to start another war, and she intends to stop it.

She has blue eyes, black hair and a sharp temper.

If one half the members of the House of Commons had one half her rectitude and moral courage, the others would not matter so much.

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Porsha Williams fianc, Simon Guobadia, comes from a long line of polygamy.

The 57-year-old businessman revealed during the premiere of Porshas Family Matters on Sunday that his grandfather had 25 wives.

I come from a family where there was abundant love, but there wasnt enough to go around, Guobadia told Williams while out to dinner.

The former Real Housewives of Atlanta star, 40, then offered an explanation Because there were so many kids, so many wives before asking, How many wives?

Guobadia responded with a smirk, Grandaddy? 25. He then said his father had just two wives.

Where I come from, theres nothing abnormal about having different women, the Nigeria native added. As a matter of fact, theres women from my part of the country that tell their husbands, You can have one side bitch. And from time to time, the wife and the side bitch get together and make sure theres not another side bitch.

Williams made it clear to her fianc at the dinner that she did not approve of that philosophy. She then asked him whether hes ever cheated, to which he replied, Of course, everybody has cheated.

Viewers immediately took to social media to express why Williams should be concerned over Guobadias comments.

Simon told porsha that his Grandfather had 25 wives, Simon said that in his culture the wife allows 1 side bitch. Simon has had 3 wives. Run Forrest! Run! one person tweeted.

Another cautioned, Regardless of how many weeks it was & even if it were months, ITS TOO SOON PORSHA!!! Get to know him: 4 wives 5 kids Grandpa had 25 wives Dad had 2 wives.

Williams and Guobadia confirmed they were engaged in May.

Our relationship began a month agoyes we are crazy in love, the reality star wrote on Instagram at the time. I know its fast but we are living life each day to its fullest. I choose happiness every morning and every night.

Tuning out all negative energy and only focused on positive wishes. He makes me so happy and to me, that is what matters most.

Guobadia had just gotten out of his marriage to former RHOA cast member Falynn Guobadia at the time, but their divorce was eventually finalized in July.

Simon hasdenied being unfaithfulto Falynn, 32, and even offered $50,000 in cash to anyone with receipts of his infidelity.

Williams, for her part, has been married once before. She and former NFL player Kordell Stewart divorced in 2013 after two years of marriage. She was then engaged off and on to Dennis McKinley, with whom she shares a 2-year-old daughter, Pilar.

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Change is inevitable. This is as well true for human relationships which have been highly dynamic since the beginning of time. Traditions are flourishing and perishing, so are the ideas associated with marriage and relationships.

Today, we have many options of non-monogamous relationships to choose from that are flexible unlike earlier times. But before jumping into how these trends of relationships came into existence let us know why relationships till date were monogamous in the first place.

There is no definite answer to whether humans are meant to be monogamous or not but they are definitely not of monogamous origin. It is a social concept that later came into being and evolved over time so much so that it is now considered as the only form of legal marriage in most countries and cultures.

Hence the idea that two people must be exclusively together in a large part is a socially constructed concept.

It is interesting to note that polyandry ceased to be in practice much prior to that of polygyny. The reason behind this difference is partly biological and mostly socio-cultural.

Biologically, there are various factors such as parental-care, resource access, partner choice and sexual dimorphism that favor monogamy over polygamy.

Speaking in terms of the cultural context, it all started when humans started acquiring land and practicing agriculture. This led to the sexual division of labor and distribution of property among men. Societies became highly patrilineal.

In order to ensure that the property is inherited by the legitimate male successor, polyandry had to be stopped. It was further discouraged as the concept of religion evolved that labelled certain acts such as women being involved with multiple partners, immoral.

Indian societies witnessed widespread inequality by means of polygyny throughout centuries until the British banned polygamy entirely.

In the 21st century however we are coming across various practices of polyamory, open relationships and other non-monogamous relationships popularized by the west(quite ironically). The phrase open relationships was first coined in 1972 and popularized with the publication of Open Marriage: A New Life Style for Couples by the late George and Nena ONeil.

Canada-based therapist Susan Wenzel in her book, A Happy Life in an Open Relationship defines an open relationship as such: An open relationship is an arrangement wherein a couple decides to include experiences with other people often for sexual pleasure.

Open relationships do not encourage emotional attachment with external partners. Some people in open relationships prefer onetime sexual experiences or several dates, but ensure they do not become romantically involved with these additional sexual partners. A couple in an open relationship always prioritizes their primary relationship.

An open relationship is thus ironically to polyamory as in the latter the concept of multiple love exists with no single lover being prioritized.

Modern couples are shifting from the made-for-each-other mindset to the more-the-merrier mindset. But is this mindset really as modern as it seems?

All the forms of non-monogamous relationships seen today are by large a comeback of the age-old system of polygamy practiced in early societies with a few exceptions.

Unlike ancient times, when polygamy was a natural impulse, today such practices manifest the freedom of not binding ones love life as per certain criteria of the society, which is a progressive move. It further challenges patriarchy and the concept that women should be chaste and exclusive.

It thereby creates a space for gender equality which was absent in earlier Indian societies where a married woman was considered the sole property of the husband (but not vice-versa).

The liberal side of such relationships is progressive. However, at the same time monogamy shouldnt be labelled as outdated and there should be room for choice.

However, what is not so progressive is its self-centered nature. As individual beings, we have learnt to prioritize ourselves over the well being of the people around us. We tend to overlook the structure of kinship and ignore the emotions of our other halves. It is important to note that an open relationship simply allows affairs outside the primary relationship.

It does not necessitate the willingness of both the partners to entangle into such affairs at the same time with the same intensity. This creates an imbalance and jealousy so much so that the true essence of a conjugal life is lost.

This is largely true as human relationships are more than just physical intimacy. Such non-monogamous relationships are thus not a means to challenge social traditions but to bring back the old traditions that were abolished for the sake of bringing order in society and peace in individual minds.

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