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من قبل آن on Dec.21, 2010, خلال رحلتي, قصتي اليوم

I have written “My Journey” و “My Story Today” in book like form (read from top to bottom), which does not conform to how one normally reads a blog. لتعيين الوظائف حتى بهذه الطريقة, واضطررت الى تغيير تواريخ كتابات. This explains why the dates of the posts do not coincide with the dates of the comments, الردود, أو ردود من المعلقين.
ان تكون جديدة على المدونات, I did not do so well with the timeline in the posts. لتعطيك فكرة أفضل عن الجدول الزمني, أصبح أليكس وأنا تعدد الزوجات في ديسمبر 2006 (عندما اليكس “متزوج” Carolinah). لقد بدأت هذه بلوق في شباط / فبراير 2009. حتى, يمكنك ان ترى بدأت المدونات عن حياتنا فقط ما يزيد قليلا على عامين من أن يصبح تعدد الزوجات. كنت ما زلت في فوضى كاملة (نفسيا) في الوقت.
آمل أن يكون هذا التفسير كان مفيدا.
هذا هو البيت المفتوح. لا حاجة لضرب. يأتي فقط على.
مرحبا العالم!
من قبل آن on Apr.25, 2009, خلال رحلتي
لحماية الهوية الحقيقية للأحزاب والبقاء وفيا لتجارب حياتي, أسماء الشخصيات هنا (في تعدد الزوجات 411) هي وهمية; لكن, بلدي الوضع, ظروف, وخبرات حقيقية.![]()
ابن Anabellah. هل يمكن الاتصال بي انا. لقد كنت في تعدد الزوجات, المشار إليها من قبل العديد من تعدد الزوجات, لمجرد ما يزيد قليلا على عامين. اسم زوجي هو اليكس. هو “married” Carolinah (أغنية مرحة) حين تزوج لي. متزوجنني استخدام “married” في الاقتباسات, لأنه ببساطة لم أكن في حفل زفاف في اليكس وCarolinah. أنا لم أتكلم مع أي شخص الذين حضروا الحفل, ولا أرى أي وثائق من ذلك.Carolinahلا بد لي من قبول كلمة أليكس أنه حدث. اليكس, Carolinah, وأنا أعيش تعدد الزوجات, وهي مشروعة لي بأنه مسلم, لجميع النوايا والمقاصد.
أسأل الله المغفرة عن كل ما جاز لي القول ، أو وقال هنا في تعدد الزوجات 411 التي من شأنها أن غير قصد, أو في أي وسيلة تضليل الآخرين. هدفي هنا في تعدد الزوجات 411 هو مساعدة الآخرين في التعامل مع طريقة حياة (تعدد الزوجات) ما هو جيد بالنسبة لي وفي الوقت نفسه لقد وجدت أنه من الصعب للغاية.
أود أن أطلعكم هنا في تعدد الزوجات 411 بلدي الرحلة والإجابة كثير من أسئلتك, بأمانة كما وأسرع وقت ممكن. إن شاء الله, سوف تتقاسم بعض من مشاعرك, الأفكار, والخبرات وغيرها معي, كذلك.
أريد أن نتذكر أن الله جعل من يحل للرجل أن يكون أكثر من زوجة واحدة في الإسلام. حتى, يرجى أن نضع في الاعتبار تعدد الزوجات 411 ليس تقريع بلوق تعدد الزوجات. أنا لا نريد أن نجعل غير القانونية التي جعلت الله الذي مشروعة. وقد كان هذا جزءا من كفاحي, وأنا المعركة مع لجنة تقصي الحقائق والرغبات الشخصية.
في تعدد الزوجات 411, أنا لا, لا يمكن, وسوف لن تخبر أحدا كيفية ممارسة تعدد الزوجات, ولن أعطي المشورة بشأن ما إذا كان من حق لك. يمكن أن أشارك معكم فقط ما قلته من ذوي الخبرة, تعلمت عن نفسي, وتعلمت من الآخرين.
الحمد لله رب العالمين.
معلومات أساسية بلدي
من قبل آن on Apr.24, 2009, خلال رحلتي

I should give you a bit of background information on Alex and me…the beginning. قبل أليكس وأنا متزوج, وقال انه يمكن ان يعتني بي. قلت : بخير وجيدة, but I will keep working. I liked what I did and the money I made. I think if a man gives you money, you give him control. No way did I want Alex to have that much control of me. I needed to make my money.
Alex and I shared the expenses. Why should he pay for everything? In sharing expenses, مانع لديه الكثير من المال لمساعدة أسرته وأصدقائه. That is what he continued to do-help his family and friends. I didn’t know Alex one day would اعتقد وقال انه ما يكفي من المال لرعاية الكثير من زوجة أخرى.
توقفت عن العمل بشكل دائم, about one year after Alex married Carolinah. في…أنا لم تتوقف عن العمل لوضع العبء على اليكس, as that would only put a burden on me. I fully knew I had enough money to take care of myself, إذا أليكس وبلادي marriage did not work out. وعلاوة على ذلك, I kept in mind that Alex had a legal responsibility to me given by our State Marriage License.
في took my emotional, psychological and physical well-being into consideration before retiring my career (بعد سنة واحدة متزوجة Carolinah اليكس.) The tremendous amount of stress that I had suffered from living my new life polygamy (يعيشون عليه الآن لمدة عام), not only effected my mental and physical health, but my work as well…not sleeping at night, غير قادر على التركيز في العمل, بالاكتئاب وليس فقط رعاية يعد, most definitely took a toll on me.
هو, هي, وأنا لتعدد الزوجات- How it Began…
من قبل آن on Apr.23, 2009, خلال رحلتي

Carolina had resurfaced in Alex’s life. I found out about three months before he told me that he was going to marry her. (She and Alex had been together for a few years or so before he and I met and married, to my understanding.)
Alex advised me one evening that Carolina was thinking about becoming Muslim. He said he told her to go to the Mosque, but then told her that he would teach her. قلت :, “موافق, go ahead , teach her.”
On a subsequent occasion, كنت having an emergency, and tried to reach Alex. He didn’t answer his cell phone. When I later questioned him about it he said, “I was at Carolina’s house.” جيد, I was a bit taken back for a moment, but life went on. On another day he said, ” I wonder what you would do if she becomes Muslim.” I ignored the statement and, as usual, life went on.
One night, soon afterwards, we were preparing to have dinner and I asked him if Carolina had decided to become Muslim yet. وقال, “رقم” I asked him what was taking her so long to decide if Allah was good for her? Not many days later, he said she had become Muslim.
The Fairytale Begins to Crumble…
من قبل آن on Apr.22, 2009, خلال رحلتي

حتى, everything seemed as usual in our home; I was content; I guess you could even say I was happy. لكن, I did notice Alex was still in his mind, somewhat distant. And then, spontaneously, out of nowhere, he said to me, “I’m going to marry Carolina.”
Wow, I didn’t see that one coming…. I just remember saying, “جيد, I’m going to get a divorce.” He said he didn’t want a divorce. I said I didn’t care. He said I couldn’t divorce him in Islam, as I had no reason to.
I frantically threw on some street clothes and a coat, grabbed my cell phone, and ran out into the street. (I live in a quiet cul-de-sac. It was a Sunday evening, nighttime, and conversations outside could be heard clearly by anyone inside.) I called my best friend (of 20 plus years, who introduced me to Islam, بلدي الولي). I was absolutely hysterical, screaming loudly, and crying uncontrollably… I felt like I was in the middle of nowhere, looking up at the sky, at the stars and the houses all around. Nothing seemed real accept the voice on the other end of the phone.
I told him what Alex had said. My friend’s response was, “ It’s OK; he’s allowed to do that.” I screamed, “I can’t do it. I can’t. I can’t.” قلت :, “ I want a divorce.” He said I had no reason to divorce him. He said I couldn’t divorce him just because I didn’t like Allah’s decision. He said I had to try to accept Allah’s decision and if I couldn’t, he would help me get a divorce. He told me to stop crying. وقال, “Go back inside, and don’t let him see you crying.”
تعدد الزوجات ، وبعد رد الفعل الأولي…
من قبل آن on Apr.21, 2009, خلال رحلتي

موافق, so now I knew he was going to have an extra wife. Alex and I were going to be part and parcel of polygamy. ودعا الصباح التالي أليكس لي في طريقه الى عمله, to check on me. He said his stomach had been in knots and still was, كما كان يقود سيارته. كنت جميلة شعور الكثير من خدر في هذه النقطة, from what I could remember.
يوم او نحو ذلك في وقت لاحق, في حالة من الحرمان, سألت Alex if he was really going to marry Carolinah. He said yes, وسئل عما اذا اعتقدت عنيدا طفل عن شيء من هذا القبيل. It was now the end of نوفمبر. في asked when he might do it. وقال, “في يناير. أو فبراير”
On a later day, سألت Alex to give me more time, كما كان أكثر من اللازم, سريع جدا. I needed more time إلى digest it all. وقال, “رقم” He said delaying it would be like pulling a band-aid off a wound. وسيكون من الافضل ان نفعل ذلك بسرعة وسهولة الحصول عليها أكثر مع, he said.
وغني عن القول, كنت مذهولة والاكتئاب. I spoke with my wali about it. ونصح لي لا داعي للقلق, as only Allah SWT knew whether it was actually going to happen or not. The thought that it might not happen comforted me.
ثم يوم واحد, soon afterwards, في received a phone call from Alex while I was at work. With a bit of excitement in his voice, he said the wali for Carolinah advised him that she was ready and the wedding could take place. Alex said he set the date for mid Dec. (He gave me the exact date). I was totally unprepared for the marriage, unprepared for polygamy in my life to take place so soon. After All, he had said it would take place in either Jan. أو فبراير
لعدة أيام لمتابعة, I continued to ask Alex to give me more time and not do it so quickly. I asked if he would wait until Aug. أو سبتمبر. أن تعطيني الوقت لقبول الوضع. وقال, “No”. بدأت المرافعة مرات عديدة لمزيد من الوقت, حتى أدركت أنني التسول. I again asked him if I was going to meet her. He said no, كما انه يخشى من وأود أن محاولة لوقفها.
I spoke to a few people about how Alex had denied me more time. One person said he treated me like a ”ومع ذلك.” My oldest sister said, كان like he had given me a huge piece of steak and made me swallow it, دون إعطائي فرصة لمضغ.
حتى, الآن…what do في من? وكان تعدد الزوجات تصبح بسرعة أكثر من حقيقة واقعة بالنسبة لي.
أسئلة أنا
من قبل آن on Apr.20, 2009, خلال رحلتي

اليكس advised me, before and after he married لي, أن لم يكن لديه مصلحة في تعدد الزوجات. Now things changed and he was going to marry Carolinah. بالطبع, I had questions.
وكان أليكس already said when his marriage to Carolinah would take place. I asked Alex if he loved Carolinah. وقال, “يهمني لها.” When I first realized Alex was seeing Carolinah again, he had told me that she “comforted” him. One of my sisters looked at a photo that I had shown her of Carolinah and said, “هو (اليكس) يجب أن يكون حزينا reeeeeal.”
Alex gave me various replies at varying times about why he was going to marry Carolinah. Some of the reason he gave were: She needed help. He said the only way he could help her and be around her was by being married to her. He said she had a teenage son that she needed help with. Alex قال Carolinah was a nice person and people were taking advantage of her; والأشخاص المقيمين في منزلها, and wouldn’t leave. Alex, وفي مناسبة أخرى, said he needed to feel needed.
انني اتلقى قليلا قبل نفسي في القصة هنا, لكن approximately a couple months after he had married Carolinah, هو said he married her لأن she wanted sex. I asked him if he was paying her mortgage. He said he was paying half her mortgage (her mortgage was one of those no money down, balloon type mortgages that doubled or something like that.)
العواطف ارتفاع في تعدد الزوجات
من قبل آن on Apr.19, 2009, خلال رحلتي

The weeks and days before my forthcoming experience مع polygamy came rapidly, sparking within me various feelings and emotions. كنت غاضبا للغاية في اليكس لما كان على وشك القيام به…تعدد الزوجات?
في المساء عندما وصل إلى بيته, مضجوج الأول وأنا مهتاج. صرخت في وجهه من أعلى من رئتي, spurting من البذاءات. لا أستطيع أن أكرر تلك الكلمات والعبارات هنا, كما they are totally inappropriate. I’m sure you could imagine what they were.
Sometimes when he was watching TV or was on the computer, I’d rush right in from another room and explode-from a distance. I never got too close. I’d leave the room, again, و then would rush back. فعلت ذلك مرارا وتكرارا. I kept physical distance from Alex, خلال نوبات الغضب بلدي, fearing he’d clobber me and I’d end up laid out on the floor. حتى في حالتي الغضب, كنت تخشى, عدم الرغبة في اتخاذ إجراءات بلدي والسلوك بعيدا جدا. كنت مثل “مجنون امرأة.” I’m sure the neighbors heard. (كنت totally mortified and humilitated; أنا سعيد لتحريكها.)
اليكس لم تستجب لغضبي. قال انه ما زال مجرد القيام بما كان يقوم به, as though I wasn’t even there. I don’t know how he did it. I mean this went on throughout the night, ليال كثيرة, كل ليلة? I went on and on about how Carolinah just wanted his money and wanted sex. How she nor he knew anything about Islam. كيف كان أعمى يقود أعمى. How he was going to practice polygamy just to hurt me, as I had hurt him by not living our lives the way he wanted me to.
في أوقات أخرى, I became reasonable. I actually began to get to know Alex better. I had an underlying motive. I’m sure Carolinah thought she was very special right about now. The two of them were preparing psychologically and physically for their steamy, hot encounters. جيد, وقد حان الوقت الآن بالنسبة لي للتعرف على زوجي أفضل…إلى إعادة إشعال حريق أو, أود أن أقول ربما, ignite it, as I don’t think it had ever been lit to begin with.
And that is what I did.
Polygamy Helps Us Know OurSelves and Others!
من قبل آن on Apr.18, 2009, خلال رحلتي

إنه لأمر مدهش أن ما يقرب من خمس سنوات لم أكن أعرف حقا نفسي, ولم أعرف أليكس زوجي. كنت حتى استوعبت الذاتي, أناني ومتكبر صريح. I hadn’t taken any significant time to know Alex. I focused primarily on what he did and didn’t do, ويريد لي احتياجاتي, and my likes and dislikes. Alex had almost been superficial to me.
بالنسبة لي, polygamy was and is a humbling experience. I never, ever dreamed Alex would consider polygamy. I used to come home and tell him stories about people in neighboring communities who were polygamous, and were getting divorced. He even told me a couple of similar stories.
A problem arose with realizing polygamy in my life. I now began to attach myself and focus too much attention on Alex. I swung far, way over to the opposite side. Although I was still staying conscious of Allah SWT, I had now تصبح much too attentive to Alex.
My Wakeel kept telling me, “What you chase runs from you. What you run from chases you. That is what a chase is all about.” My wakeel advised me time in and time out that nothing should ever be more important than Allah SWT.
هذا هو البيت المفتوح. لا حاجة لضرب. فقط تعال في يوم.
My Husband’s Getting Married-Polygamous Details…
من قبل آن على Apr.17, 2009, خلال رحلتي

As the date for the marriage drew closer, I felt a need to have more details about it from Alex. حتى, سألت.
I already knew the date the marriage was going to take place. They scheduled it for a weekday, the beginning of the week. He said he was going to go to work the day of the marriage and it would take place after the Maghrib prayer, at a Masjid in Carolinah’s hometown. I asked if afterwards they were going to go on a “Honeymoon.” وقال, لا; they were going to go away sometime during the next year. It didn’t seem at all romantic or glamorous to me and that made me feel much على نحو أفضل.
Carolinah didn’t live in the same geographical location as me, which made me feel much better as well. Although, she didn’t live very, very far away, she was far enough away from me.
Alex and I had revived the passion in our marriage or I should say brought alive passion that hadn’t existed before. We now had a really nice connection. It felt like I had just met him. Alex could very well say he was beginning new lives, one with Carolinah and one with me, simultaneously.
He said he would stay four days with her and then would come back home. I thought she was only supposed to get three days, but I didn’t bother to check it out or squabble about it.
It didn’t feel that weird to me either, then, كما it wouldn’t be the first time he was going to be with Carolinah…remember, they were together for a couple of years or so before he and I got married. Maybe once they resumed the relationship he’d remember why he didn’t marry her to begin with (ابتسامة). I’m sorry! That was way harsh.

