Heh. Like wolf packs and herds of wild horses.
2 wives? Shit, I ain’t that rich!
She told me she loved me like a brother. She was from Arkansas, hence the Joy!
No.
No way, No how.
Being half of a couple is hard enough.
The closest I ever came to that was when I was temporarily insane.
I’m much better now.
I think a lot of the problems that come from those communities (that one, and the one about marrying teenagers) are at least partly a result of the secrecy and closed-off character of the communities. Back when polygamy was more widely practiced in Utah, it didn’t happen so much; not enough people were practicing to create a serious shortage of women, and women were far more able to choose for themselves. (Not that I’m saying there were no problems, mind you–just that they weren’t so likely to fester. I think polygamy must be a very difficult way to live.)
And, no, I don’t think I’d do it. Unless God told me to. I hope he doesn’t. 
Yeah, I could handle a second woman in the house, helping me out. I feel really overwhelmed a lot of the time, trying to work full time and keep the house up while still offering quality time to my child. Hopefully my husband could find someone else whom I liked but who also looooooved the household stuff.
That’s just so fucking wrong I want to go kill those old coots! Same thing with those documentaries that have one male fucking ALL the females just because he headbutted the other males…
However, this concept sure isn’t limited to polygamists and animals…I often see HOT 20-something women married to some 50-something jerk just because he’s rich…I have NEVER seen a handsome young man with a woman that age. I’m sure it happens, but it’s WAY rarer…
Anyway, in response to the OP, no way. I’d probably enjoy having sex with more than one woman, but the rest of it would be BAD NEWS!
Being as I am currently in the process of a somewhat messy divorce, I can’t imagine this same situation involving more than one other person.
And if three wasn’t bad enough, what would it be like if a seven person marriage exploded in different directions? Ouch. You’d be in court for years trying to figure that one out.
Better not to be married at all, or to have really really good premarital agreements.
Polygamy shouldn’t just be one man with many women either.
I always figured that a fairly decent looking young woman with the capacity to handle it could manage a fairly decent life if she was willing to take on, and ride herd over a couple of young techno-geeks. They make good money and they’d probably be quite happy to be getting any sex at all. I know that I would have when I was that age.
(So if you’re a good looking young woman who is so desperate for money that you’re considering Porn or Stripping, consider this as a viable alternative. It’s certainly safer and more dignified!)
My husband needs another husband. One to talk about tools, building and sports too without watching said wife lapse into a coma.
And I need a wife. I would be Uber Wife and boss her around.
But the inlaw situation…oye…fergetaboutit.
Were it legal, I can conceive of a situation where I would give it careful consideration.
How come most are talking about 1 extra person, making a threesome. Seems to me a threesome wouldn’t be as stable as an even number.
I liked the setup Heinlein had in * Time Enough for Love *. Doubt it would ever work though.
Would I set up something like that with another couple? It would be real tough making it work. I think of examples of mutlple room mates who couldn’t get along & I imagine throwing in a romantic interest would make it worse.
Isn’t it a Chinese proverb that trouble = 2 women under one roof?
There’s no way that I could engage in a multiple-partner relationship. Firstly, I love my partner so much, that there would be no feelings that I would be able to share with another (talking of other males, of course!)
Also, because I tend to be a little insecure at the best of times, I would feel incredibly threatened by the presence of other females in my relationship.
Speaking of threesomes, though. I have been involved in one (not live-in but just experimental experience, I guess)… and I found there was a lot of “attention competition” between the three of us. So, I can image actually all living under the same roof continuously would cause a lot of insecurities and perhaps negative feelings towards one, some or all of the people involved.
Already been touched on by a few others, but if it were another couple, rather than just third, I’d be there. I can see attraction to having another adult in the house, but if I’m going to admit that, I’d rather have two more adults in the house, one of each gender. I’d feel more like no ones “left out” unless they choose to be and the possibility of bonding is there even if it’s just complaining about the “others”. Soil’s more fertile for disention so I’d tread lightly with who I/we chose, but the potential is a cool idea. I always did prefer foursomes to threesomes though.
Sidenote for the guys who think “when one woman’s not receptive, hey, there’s another!”, you do realize when women spend a lot of time together, their menstrual cycles tend to get synchronized. Just a thought for you all. Two women who need it NOW + in a week or two, two women who want you to pretend you don’t exist to the point you shouldn’t breathe in the same room with them. PMS X 2
Wasn’t there a Cecil colum about how the menstrul cycles don’t link up? I always thought they did, too (being a female and having lived in the same house as my mom and sister for years), but apparently not.
Anyway. I, personally, would LOVE to have a husband AND wife. And I’d be down with my husband having a husband. And if our other spouses were married. I think that’d be neato. Like a love circle.
But another woman? Noo . . . I’m okay with my man sleeping with other women (safely, of course - I want no nasties), but not LOVING them. Why am I okay with the idea of him loving another man, but not another woman? I have no idea. Maybe because he’d be getting different perks out of the man, er. Like, “Okay, you go do guy things with your husband, I’ll go do girl things with my wife, and then we’ll go out together and do couples thing.”
Hmm.
You know, lots of straight guys think the same things about their girlfriends in reverse. There may be a simpler explanation. 
Regardless of the legal injunctions, I wouldn’t do it because it’s prohibited Biblically.
“No man can serve two masters.”