re: With wives like that, I would think 1/2 a wife would be sufficient.
I would think that being in an authoritarian polygamist marriage yields few joys in life. Food has got to be one of those few joys. They are self medicating.
Even worse, they are eat up with mentally unhingedness. I read a bunch of books on the subject and it just messes up these women’s minds.
So not only is she big and wearing a full wardrobe of unsightly, she is crazy as a johnny house rat. That’s a full house of misery for any man.