How many wives is too many??

**Amy-Hols** · #1 (**permalink**) 05-09-2008, 09:34 PM

I found this story quite interesting:

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Nigerian Mohammed Bello Abubakar, 84, has advised other men not to follow his example and marry 86 women.

BBC NEWS | World | Africa | Nigerian advises against 86 wives

**Jezer** · #2 (**permalink**) 06-09-2008, 12:42 AM

One is enough for me!

**Amy-Hols** · #3 (**permalink**) 06-09-2008, 01:45 AM

......is the right answer!

daveagle · #4 (**permalink**) 06-09-2008, 07:11 AM

i agree and i would also add that 1 ex-wife is more than one man ever really needs

dave

Escafeldia · #5 (**permalink**) 06-09-2008, 07:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Jezer

One is enough for me!

And me. Two women in a kitchen is a recipe for friction, three is an unmitigated disaster. If Mohammed Bello Abubakar had 86, assuming they all lived in one house, then dinner time must have been a real riot. It seems that having multiple wives stops the headaches which affect some women. Quote: "As soon as I met him the headache was gone," says Sharifat Bello Abubakar, who was 25 at the time and Mr Bello Abubakar 74." I like the logic of another one of them: Quote: "I am now the happiest woman on earth. When you marry a man with 86 wives you know he knows how to look after them," I'll bet it would be him who got the headaches.

Sweet Pea · #6 (**permalink**) 06-09-2008, 11:06 AM

As the article says, it looks like a cult since it is so tied up with religion...but he woudn't be the first cultist to accumulate wives...I can't reemember the name of the fundamental Christian who did this but recently some young girls married to one man were "rescued"...

**Sooty** · #7 (**permalink**) 06-09-2008, 11:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Jezer

One is enough for me!

Some might say that even that is too many

Then of course there was Viscount? Weymouth and his wifelets. Isn't he the Earl of Bath now?

Jamie · #8 (**permalink**) 06-09-2008, 11:59 AM

How many wives is too many??

The answer to that should be the same as how many husbands is too many?

DjRob · #9 (**permalink**) 06-09-2008, 09:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Jamie

How many wives is too many??

The answer to that should be the same as how many husbands is too many?

one!!

Bunny · #10 (**permalink**) 06-09-2008, 10:07 PM

I reckon a lot of western blokes would say that one wife is too many...but then I'm just an old cynic