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Post by rissmeek on Mar 17, 2010 2:27:09 GMT -5
(I thought it might be fun to see what we would do if we were the character.)
I'd leave Bill. I would leave Goran too. I'd explain, for whatever good it would do, to the INS that yes I was in a plural marriage with Rep. Bill Hendrickson and so was Goran's girlfriend at one time. The baby she is carrying is our ex-husband's child and in order to keep the child in the country, and to protect my identity I married Goran. I would hope with the coverage that the compounds have been getting they would think I had been brainwashed and not throw me in jail. Once I escaped jail time I would go on air at the home shopping network and explain my previous and current situation. How the only reason I joined the Hendrickson marriage was because I had always wanted a family but that I soon realized that I was more lonely in the "family" than I was without it. I was basically a single mother because I rarely had quality time with my husband. After the public loved me again and my business was sound, I would vow to be single for awhile and figure who I am as a person.
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Post by bridget on Mar 17, 2010 13:42:44 GMT -5
No way! She posted on "her" blog that she is all in. I will admit I have an emotional stake in her character because I relate to her the most, but I don't see her leaving.
Margene is still young, and just experienced the first success of her life. Her family's decision to come out jeopardizes that, and of course she finds it scary. Of course she wanted to find a way to protect it. Jumping off a cliff is terrifying. Yet, having made that decision, why would she leave now?
When I moved in full time with our poly family I was 20 years old, had my first "real" job and my first apartment (not counting a dorm room) for under six months. I was just starting to enjoy some of the freedom of adulthood, and although I wasn't making anywhere near the kind of money Margene is, it was still scary to quit my job and move in with my hubby and SW to be a stay at home mom.
I was so happy when my husband told me he was ready for me to make the move, but also terrified. I actually cried in the restaurant when he told me. Just because I had to make some sacrifices that seem confusing or "wrong" to others looking in from the outside doesn't mean I should leave, or that I will.
I don't assume that Margie should or will leave either. Fear and growth often go together.
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Post by northporter on Mar 17, 2010 16:05:03 GMT -5
I would leave... Bill is not attractive (yes, I'm mean) and he is too controlling. She makes enough money... and she could stay w/ Ana and Goran.
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Post by BigLoveRocks! on Mar 17, 2010 16:34:04 GMT -5
If I were Margene, I would leave Bill and start a new life. Maybe give speeches on how easy it is to be young, naive and sucked into polygamy and try and save what ever is left of my business.
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Post by marigoldmama on Mar 17, 2010 17:10:51 GMT -5
I'd stay with Bill and my family because I really do love these people and we have children together etc. But, I'd try to make some changes. I also would've tried harder to get Bill out of that Senate race...using my hot body and every trick I could think of.  ;D |
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Post by firstwife on Mar 22, 2010 13:11:00 GMT -5
I'd leave Bill and Goran and go make it on my own.
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Post by mottob27 on Mar 23, 2010 11:57:58 GMT -5
If I were Margie I would go on air and admit that "yes I drank the kool-aid." Then explain to everyone how I was "forced" into the marriage...Whether or not its true everyone can form their own opinions ( I would only do it for the money that it could rake in). Go on Oprah, write a book, have a child for the neighbor lady (I forget her name), and then move somewhere with my kids and start over.
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Post by BigLoveRocks! on Mar 24, 2010 5:03:06 GMT -5
If I were Margie I would go on air and admit that "yes I drank the kool-aid." Then explain to everyone how I was "forced" into the marriage...Whether or not its true everyone can form their own opinions ( I would only do it for the money that it could rake in). Go on Oprah, write a book, have a child for the neighbor lady (I forget her name), and then move somewhere with my kids and start over. I LOVE IT! |
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Post by yancykin on Mar 27, 2010 12:21:14 GMT -5
I would keep Bill and Goran and add in Ben. After all I can keep up with their "needs"and more. I would create my own new religion where I would be the Profite and the polygamist. The men would have to be submissive to me. They would because Margie is great in bed.
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Post by JJ77 on Mar 28, 2010 17:30:48 GMT -5
I have a hard time with these "If I were... whoever" threads, b/c finding myself in the place of one of these wives would more or less go against every facet of my personality. So I have a hard time wrapping my head around it from that perspective.
That said, if I were margene I wouldn't be feeling "all in" at this point. I'd be feeling more of a sense of it all being over. Not saying i would walk away from my marriage or SW's without an effort, but I don't see her efforts having any real impact. I would leave. I would walk away from the henrickson's on the best terms possible, and I would RUN to get an divorce / anullment from goran.
I'd cut ties with all the crazies, and start a life of my own ... with my children.
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