"that's my other wife"

Okay.  funny story.

Before I tell the tale, I must preface it by explaining that last night Jana and I (and Matt before he left for a trip) stumbled upon "Sister Wives" on TLC. It's a reality TV show about a polygamist family in Utah.  I had watched a few episodes of "Big Love" w/ my friend Suzie in England (a fictional drama series about a polygamist family).  I could only bare to watch an episode or two (there is a LOT of sex in that show. . .)  But last night, this reality show was like one of those things that was so horrible we just couldn't look away.  Seriously we sat there horrified, looking at each other like "is this for real?!"  when we heard lines like "I was never interested in single men" or "I was not looking for a husband.  I was looking for sisterwives too".

Sister Wives cast (above)  Big Love cast (below) 

So tonight, I walked through the door around 7.  M&J were at the table with a salesman.  The salesman and I made eye contact when I walked through the door.  You could see the confusion in his face as the question "Where does she fit in this picture?  They are married.   She can't be their daughter. . ."  Without missing a beat, Matt said, "she's my other wife."  Apparently this guy's eyes got really big and a weirded-out expression crossed his face.  Too funny.  Though, apparently the salesman had an equally great dry sense of humor and during a discussion/joking about tiling a mural in the bathroom he said, "So Father Abraham, will that be of the three of you?!"

There probably aren't many friends where it would be okay to joke like that about marriage . . .  there also aren't many situations where I woud live with someone for two months and it would be non-weird and okay. . . but since they're more like our older siblings, it's all good . . .

Seriously. I DO NOT UNDERSTAND how women do it. I am far to jealous to share my husband. Jana and I talked about how uncomfortable it is to even see someone kissing multiple people on shows like the Bachelor. As I watched some of the tension/dynamic of the women on the show I thought "you could not PAY me to be in the middle of that drama". After living in a house of 7 girls my last year at Northwestern, I was as sure as ever that I only ever wanted to live with ONE BOY.