His Favorite Wife: Trapped in Polygamy

Posted on 13 September 2019 by Susan Ray Schmidt

His Favorite Wife is the heart stopping, inspirational narrative of a courageous, fifteen year old girl who becomes the sixth wife in a polygamous marriage Cascading with rich, well developed characters, this true story will capture your soul and imagination as the author reveals how a group of kind hearted, sincere people are led to embrace this controversial lifestyle in their pursuit of the highest degree of glory Laced with surprising brush strokes of humor, this heart rending saga will take its readers on a journey that outsiders whisper of and shudder about It answers the question that a polygamist s wife is asked countless times How can you tolerate sharing your husband In North America today there are over thirty thousand polygamists They lead secret lives in their attempt to hide from society and U.S laws Their women are taught that obedience, unquestioning acceptance of polygamy, and giving birth to huge families of children to follow in their parent s footsteps will assure them a celestial crown Few search out truth for themselves, but trustingly follow their prophet Susan s book deals with this head in the sand ignorance She too, was one of these women. Best Read His Favorite Wife: Trapped in Polygamy by Susan Ray Schmidt For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Sadly, while this story is remarkable, the writing is not Susan Ray Schmidt s account of her life as part of Colonia LeBaron, plural wife to one of the infamous LeBaron brothers, has all the elements of a juicy memoir She is right in the midst of the warring fundamentalist polygamist communities, and her time with the LeBarons spans some fascinating, dark, real life stories Unfortunately, Schmidt tends to quickly gloss over theinteresting historical incidents and spend a good deal of Sadly, while this story is remarkable, the writing is not Susan Ray Schmidt s account of her life as part of Colonia LeBaron, plural wife to one of the infamous LeBaron brothers, has all the elements of a juicy mem...Although I have no objection to people having a right to their own faith or lack of faith, I think polygamy is so constraining and mentally tormenting to the women and sometimes the men who get trapped in it that it sof a crime than a religious practice This book tells the story of one such woman, living in a community so isolated that its corruption went unnoticed, one wife in a long line of many, spending her days in the mundane and meaningless when she is finally able to break away Although I have no objection to people having a right to their own faith or lack of faith, I think polygamy is so constraining and mentally tormenting to the women and sometimes the men who get trapped in it...I really enjoyed this book From the minute I opened it up I could not put it down I stayed up way too late at night because I wanted to see what was going to happen next I would often find myself just thinking about this girl and her life and was eager until I could sit down next and read what was going to happen.The way the Aut...The first 100 pages are extremely uncomfortable Susan takes you back to the mindset of an innocent 14 year old girl and it reads like my junior high diary full of Does he like me Do I like him The main difference is, though, that the boys that are flirting and winking at Susan are actually grown men, old enough to be her father, and are doing it in the company of their current wives It is amazing to read about these women who are continually neglected and left to fend for themselves in, The first 100 pages are extremely uncomfortable Susan takes you back to the mindset of an innocent 14 year old girl and it reads like my junior...His Favorite Wife Trapped in Polygamy fascinated and repulsed me, a combination that makes for a compelling read Knowing the book tells a true story drove the fascination repulsion I am interested in reading one of the other books the author lists in the epilogue to learn .About the book Susan Ray Schmidt is a descriptive author I was there with her in the colonies through her anguish and gratitude I felt her love and anger and turmoil.While I acknowledge that the book is but one His Favorite Wife Trapped in Polygamy fascinated and repulsed me, a combination that makes for a compelling read Knowing the book tells a true story drove the fascination repulsion I am interested in reading one of the other books the author lists in the epilogue to learn .About the book Susan Ray Schmidt is a descriptive author I was there with her in the colonies through her anguish and gratitude I felt her love and anger and turmoil.While I acknowledge that the book is but one perspective hers , I think she is fair in her descriptions and leaves room for me as the reader to come to my own conclusions I do not feel bullied or manipulated into that understanding It seemed like Susan s descriptions showed me how life was rather than telling me what to think about it I could draw my own conclusions Not until the final chapter do I feel Susan added some of her own analysis and opinions of the life in which she had been immersed as she started to look back Before that, because her descrip...I don t know a lot about polygamy I know a littlenow What I did know before reading this book is that it the lifestyle didn t interest me, however it did make me wonder Having read this account, I know this gal couldn t have tolerated the experience Not for anything I found tho, that I may be interested in reading a book by Susan Schmidt s sister wife, Irene, as it would give a dif...I actually came across this book sitting on a table picked it up to kill some time and couldn t put it down until I was done As a Mormon I was intrigued by this group of people who have broken away from my faith, using the same scriptures, but who believe and interpret them very differently than I do and by the way, spoiler alert Mormon s are not polygamists, so if you think we are you need to educate yourselves I also do not have horns or a tail, in case you were wondering In a way I actually came across this book sitting on a table picked it up to kill some time and couldn t put it down until I was done As a Mormon I was intrigued by this group of people who have broken away from my faith, using the same scriptures, but who believe and interpret them very differently than I do and by the way, spoiler alert Mormon s are not polygamists, so if you think we are you need to educate yourselves I also do not have horns or a tail, in case you were wondering In a way this is a tragic love story and at the same time it is a story of faith, sacrifice, and the journey we all must go through to decide what we believe independent of our family and society The story is so well written that it is hard for me to ...This is the true story of a woman s experience of being the favorite wife of her fundamentalist mormon polygamist husband It was pretty eye opening for me to see what it s like to live in a fundamentalist community with religious leaders who claim to be receiving personal revelation from God on a daily basis, especially when the bulk of their revelation has to do with which 14 year old God has commanded them to marry.This darling girl was a true believer who would do whatever was asked of her This is the true story of a woman s experience of being the favorite wife of her fundamentalist mormon polygamist husband It was pretty eye opening for me to see what it s like to live in a fundamentalist community with religious leaders who claim to be receiving personal revelation from God on a daily basis, especially when the bulk of their revelation has to do with which 14 year old God has commanded them to marry.This darling girl was a true believer who would do whatever was asked of her by her Prophet and her religious leaders She is very candid and exposes her true feelings of falling in love with the older...I wanted to educate myself to the world of Polygamy This is a true story about a group of Mormons who broke away from the church in Utah in the early 70 s and went to Mexico to start a cult called The Lambs of God The book did go on an on sometimes, but I looked everything up and all of it was true Story about 14 year old Susanna Ray who was married at the age of 14 to someone at least 20 years older She was his fifth wife By the time she was 23 with 5 kids her husband was on Wife No 12 I wanted to educate myself to the world of Polygamy This is a true story about a group of Mormons who broke... His Favorite Wife Trapped in Polygamy is the fictionalised memoir of Susan Ray Schmidt, who escaped from the polygamous cult and made a new life for herself This book offers a detailed and intimate portrayal of her personal life in a polygamous marriage, the cult s inner workings, and the entire drama surrounding Ervil Lebaron s murder spree.First, let me get the quality of writing out of the way first I was not looking for academic level perfection, but the writing was bad by any standards His Favorite Wife Trapped in Polygamy is the fictionalised memoir of Susan Ray Schmidt, who escaped from the polygamous cult and made a new life for herself This book offers a detailed and intimate portrayal of her personal life in a polygamous marriage, the cult s inner workings, and the entire drama surrounding Ervil Lebaron s murder spree.First, let me get the quality of writing out of the way first I was not looking for academic level perfection, but the writing was bad by any standards The book is riddled with punctuation and grammatical errors Much of the writing was a complete imitation of spoken English, rather than written language The author could also have done with a crash course on the use of adverbs The abundance of real good s and real bad s just annoyed me a lot I realise that this was written by a woman with very little education, but that s what ...

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13 September 2019

Susan Ray Schmidt