Still, the two might have performed the dance of "motivated cooperation" with a bit less acrimony, one suspects. As you mention such acrimony seems a hallmark of polygamy.
Still ... better than spinsterhood, childlessness and bastardy.
You don’t know that. Her husband loved her.
There’s nothing wrong with “spinsterhood”. I suppose you think that a woman can’t function without a husband.
I would rather have NO children than to be a plural “wife”.
That’s foul. The men get everything the women get nothing.