A Birmingham teacher is taking lessons in love – after marrying TWO wives.
The primary school employee has three children with each partner and they all live together under the same roof.
The husband spends alternate nights with each wife – but admitted he loved one more than the other.
And he told BBC WM: “It’s the nature of a woman to only want one husband, but it’s in the nature of a man that he will want more than one wife.”
The teacher, who would not be named, admitted his first wife was upset when he revealed he wanted a second spouse, and asked “Why? What’s wrong with me?”
But he insisted he had done nothing wrong in the eyes of Islam.
“I spend alternate nights, one with each wife, just a room away in the house we share,” he said.
“I have three children with each of my wives and the whole house is shared.”
Asked if he loved one wife more than the other, the husband replied: “You can love someone more than the other, Islam allows for that.”
He spoke after Birmingham Labour MP Jess Phillips criticised a dating website which helps Muslim men find second wives.
Secondwife.com describes itself as a “Muslim polygamy matchmaking service” for “practising Muslims who are seeking marriage and accept polygamy as a lifestyle”. [Birmingham Mail] Read more
